What colour is the passport ?

[Raymond Lin]

This is less about “Is the colour of the Passport Important?”


This is more about somewhere along the lines people wanted their old Blue Passport Prior to joining the EU back, so it became a sort of promise or one of the tangible poster pieces of Brexit that people could hold up proudly to symbolise leaving the EU and back to “independence”.


And they failed.

 

[Irish_Tom]

This is less about “Is the colour of the Passport Important?”

This is more about somewhere along the lines people wanted their old Blue Passport Prior to joining the EU back, so it became a sort of promise or one of the tangible poster pieces of Brexit that people could hold up proudly to symbolise leaving the EU and back to “independence”.

And they failed.

But they haven't failed, they got exactly what they wanted.

The old passports were just as blue/black as the new ones.

 

[Raymond Lin]

But they haven't failed, they got exactly what they wanted.

The old passports were just as blue/black as the new ones.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bre...ports-will-be-made-in-france-2018-3?r=US&IR=T

 

[MookJong]

Black passports matter?

 

[Irish_Tom]

https://www.businessinsider.com/bre...ports-will-be-made-in-france-2018-3?r=US&IR=T

Ah, you mean they're supplied by a French company and printed in Poland — I get your point now.

That wasn't clear from your first post.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Ah, you mean they're supplied by a French company and printed in Poland — I get your point now.

That wasn't clear from your first post.

And the photo too?

 

[alchal]

Just when you think it couldn't get any worse someone brings up something to do with Brexit

Prepare for hostility,tin hats on.

 

[Begbie]

The people complaining about the quality of the blue passports and the print not being perfectly straight clearly haven't handled a new passport any time in the past year.

This isn't a new thing. I received a burgundy passport over a year ago and it has exactly the same issues. I'll try and get a pic of the front.

Yep, the chip in mine works about half the time. Then you try to explain this at the airport 'please try again'. Look, it never works. 'No, please sir try a different machine' :/

 

[Kenai]

I wonder how many other countries in the world feel the need to doubly reinforce which country the passport is for?

Most seem to have the country and the word 'Passport'

We have (on both the new ones and the old old ones) the country and 'British Passport'

 

[Irish_Tom]

And the photo too?

These are all screengrabs I've just taken from various articles on the Express website:



It's pretty obvious, to anyone paying attention, that the old passports were a very dark blue which could look black under the right lighting.

 

[Ryan-3]

What's the French got to do with it though....

Aren't they also producing these passports albeit in another EU country? Taking back control and deciding to overlook our own.

If people have to explain "It is blue! Look look! It really is!" then it just isn't. Another promise not delivered how it was sold.

 

[delta0]

Depends on the lighting https://www.ft.com/content/8a166ff6-54b3-11ea-8841-482eed0038b1

 

[Minusorange]

I don't care what colour it is. It's a passport, the colour is totally irrelevant.

1. Where's the poll ?
2. The colour is the most relevant part of this thread, it's like the dress - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress, or those trainers from - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/what-colour-is-this-trainer.18819652/

 

[Hades]

Black passports matter?

All passports matter.

 

[Theophany]

Of course it doesn't, not in the slightest. Mine expires next year, I'll renew it and it could be a mauvy shade of pinky russet for all I care.

I quite like the sound of that colour.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

So who can we blame now? The French I guess....until you realise an entire group in the government would have had to of signed off on the first print runs.

This is less about “Is the colour of the Passport Important?”

This is more about somewhere along the lines people wanted their old Blue Passport Prior to joining the EU back, so it became a sort of promise or one of the tangible poster pieces of Brexit that people could hold up proudly to symbolise leaving the EU and back to “independence”.

And they failed.

Whats even more hilarious as that their was never an obligation to have red as the passport colour, more of an informal guide. Croatia has a blue passport for example.
We could have changed the colour to blue whilst in the EU, yet dumb moronic voters lapped up the government rhetoric as taking back independence blah blah blah....

 

[Hades]

So who can we blame now? The French I guess....until you realise an entire group in the government would have had to of signed off on the first print runs.


Whats even more hilarious as that their was never an obligation to have red as the passport colour, more of an informal guide. Croatia has a blue passport for example.
We could have changed the colour to blue whilst in the EU, yet dumb moronic voters lapped up the government rhetoric as taking back independence blah blah blah....

...and red is more of a national English colour than blue is anyway!


(yes I know England is not Britain but England was the majority of the population to vote for independence).

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Depends on the lighting https://www.ft.com/content/8a166ff6-54b3-11ea-8841-482eed0038b1

Paywall man!

 

[Efour]

All passports matter.

Passportist a hole.

 

[Theophany]

Paywall man!

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