Are you excited by the new blue British passports (made in Poland)?

[skyscraper101]

They're black by virtually any measure. Your victory was a massive con, suckers.

Is the new passport really blue or black?

The new UK blue passport is as "near as damn it black", an expert on colours says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[strung out]

They're black by virtually any measure. Your victory was a massive con, suckers.

Is the new passport really blue or black?

The new UK blue passport is as "near as damn it black", an expert on colours says.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nice - I might get one early now, that black is much nicer than blue or red.

 

[Pickman's model]

perhaps they could start doing red and black passports

 

[A380]

Whilst I hate to post a link to the Daily (hurrah for the blackshirts) Heil this is really fucking funny.

Britain's new post-Brexit passport is mocked online for being 'black'

Dubbed by some as a symbol of Britain's independence from the European Union, the new 'iconic blue' passports have started arriving through people's letterboxes.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[tim]

I had always assumed that my old passports were black and so was rather nonplussed when they started going on about bringing back blue passports. I like the colour but it is a bit like those Borismaster bus. It's design echoes the classic model but it is shit. It's too small; too flexible ;and it hasn't got the two cartouches one surrounding the passport number and the other with my name, ideally hand written in turquoise ink.

 

[krtek a houby]

And, of course, they will have to be changed again once the 6 counties are returned.

 

[Calamity1971]

Another blow for the North East.
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De La Rue to halt production of UK passports at Gateshead site

 

[Buddy Bradley]

We've just renewed our passports by post, and the new ones are the same old burgundy as before.

 

[platinumsage]

We've just renewed our passports by post, and the new ones are the same old burgundy as before.

You must be gutted.

Probably took longer to clear the old stock due to no one going abroad right now.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

You must be gutted.

I'd actually completely forgotten about the possibility of getting a different-coloured passport until Mrs BB mentioned it. Maybe they still have to issue the EU ones until we've actually left?

 

[platinumsage]

I'd actually completely forgotten about the possibility of getting a different-coloured passport until Mrs BB mentioned it. Maybe they still have to issue the EU ones until we've actually left?

We have left, and they didn't have to issue the EU ones even when we hadn't.

You can always renew them again later in the year.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

You can always renew them again later in the year.

Fuck that, it's cost almost 400 quid to get these ones for the whole family.

 

[Ax^]

They're black by virtually any measure. Your victory was a massive con, suckers.

Is the new passport really blue or black?

The new UK blue passport is as "near as damn it black", an expert on colours says.

www.bbc.co.uk

they are not black, if you look closely, they are really very, very, very very dark blue.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Fuck that, it's cost almost 400 quid to get these ones for the whole family.

Buy a black very dark blue marker pen and get busy on the covers

 

[Serge Forward]

they are not black, if you look closely, they are really very, very, very very dark blue.

Short of a few verys there.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

We've just renewed our passports by post, and the new ones are the same old burgundy as before.

Correction - one was burgundy, the others are the blue/black version. Guess it depends which office your application gets directed to.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'd actually completely forgotten about the possibility of getting a different-coloured passport until Mrs BB mentioned it. Maybe they still have to issue the EU ones until we've actually left?

Mrs Frank has a Soviet Union passport, issue date 1999. Bit of a head scratcher that one. Evidently they still had quite a few left in stock and couldn't be bothered to print any more.

 

[William of Walworth]

Anyone suggesting that either the pre-1988 passport, or the new one, was/is anything other than black is not in the same room as common sense.

Of course they're black to any reasonably-functioning pair of eyes, damn it!!!!!!
Fuck the technicalities .......

 

[campanula]

I don't care what fucking colour they are - I don't have one cos I don't go anywhere...but I do care that yet another UK business (De La Rue) is sacking workers as the tender for production moves out of another hard-pressed region Gateshead) over to a French/Dutch conglomerate...although cunts on all sides since De La Rue backed the wrong horse. As usual though, it's the workers who get shafted.

 

[editor]

I don't care what fucking colour they are - I don't have one cos I don't go anywhere...but I do care that yet another UK business (De La Rue) is sacking workers as the tender for production moves out of another hard-pressed region Gateshead) over to a French/Dutch conglomerate...although cunts on all sides since De La Rue backed the wrong horse. As usual though, it's the workers who get shafted.

Yes, but black/blue passports! Freedom fries! Brexit! We've got our country back! Won't someone think of the NHS! etc etc

 

[not-bono-ever]

def, blue. was once shown an array of these passports by people and asked which were fake( this was years ago)- the range of apparent colours and faded hues was pretty impressive. was not able to ID the bogus ones

 

[Spymaster]

I don't care what fucking colour they are - I don't have one cos I don't go anywhere...but I do care that yet another UK business (De La Rue) is sacking workers as the tender for production moves out of another hard-pressed region Gateshead) over to a French/Dutch conglomerate...although cunts on all sides since De La Rue backed the wrong horse. As usual though, it's the workers who get shafted.

Swings and roundabouts though really. De La Rue manufacture banknotes for over 50 countries including Euros and dollars so they have done the same thing to other countries with currency printing contracts, as has been done to them with the passport contract.

 

[Spymaster]

def, blue.

Black.

 

[not-bono-ever]

blue. from the horses mouth at the time

 

[platinumsage]

Anyone suggesting that either the pre-1988 passport, or the new one, was/is anything other than black is not in the same room as common sense.

Of course they're black to any reasonably-functioning pair of eyes, damn it!!!!!!
Fuck the technicalities .......

I have two here. I just took a pic of them side by side in natural light, 1960 on the left and 1973 on the right. One is more blue than the other, but they're both blue:

 

[Spymaster]

Black

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

Gold.

 

[neonwilderness]

they are not black, if you look closely, they are really very, very, very very dark blue.

Never buy black passports from anyone in the EU. They’ll shaft you every time

 

[Artaxerxes]

Gold.

I got this reference but I didn't like it.

 

[Flavour]

well I just got my new one and it is definitely black.

interesting to note> my old passport had three languages on the first page where it has the full name of the UK -- English, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic.

My new passport now also has Irish Gaelic, French and Spanish on that page.

The photo page, same as the old one, only in English and French.

I do wonder why they've added Spanish