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

[2hats]

HMPO has never and doesn't specify a colour to the supplier, so the colours (shades thereof) have never had to be consistent and certainly weren't in the past (may only have been more recently due to standardisation of sorts amongst the few suppliers).

 

[danny la rouge]

Both his wives and wronguns and he’s blameless.

They've turned the wean against us!

 

[Proper Tidy]

Never mind the passport, it's the decision he took at the airport that is grim. I agree with these people from spy's (new) piece

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It's a bit rich to expect a 14 year old to be in charge of her own passport.
And if people don't travel very often, they really may not know that your passport might need 3 or 6 months validity on it to travel. The obvious assumption is that if it is valid up to a certain date then you can travel on it up to the day it runs out.
I feel sorry for them all and don't think anyone really needs to be hauled over the coals of the internet for it.
But yeah - the daughter is going to feel a massive sense of rejection from her father over this. Poor lass.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm with Bailey. My old one was definitely black.

no, i'm saying it wasn't completely different

 

[Poot]

Having seen the new article my views have changed. Because that is what you do when you get new information. Giving false information about the passport was either incompetent or dickish depending on whether it was deliberate.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Having seen the new article my views have changed. Because that is what you do when you get new information. Giving false information about the passport was either incompetent or dickish depending on whether it was deliberate.

Indeed - just seen this so yeah - it's all a bit shit.

 

[Spymaster]

Never mind the passport, it's the decision he took at the airport that is grim. I agree with these people from spy's (new) pieceView attachment 199634

Well obvs I disagree with these people. The existing family aren't his "new family". One of the other kids is 9 years old so he's been them them for twice as long as he was with the 14 year old but that doesn't matter. The guy was in a shit situation due to the mother's incompetence, or perhaps duplicity. He had to let down someone so does he let down one person, or three and lose thousands?

The last comment is pure guff. Take the daughter on a great holiday in the summer and she'll likely forgive and forget. If this is the worst thing that happens to her she's a lucky girl.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I know that our old passports always used to say "British Passport" on the front, but having now got used to having the name of the state on the front (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) it seems slightly odd to retreat back from such a specific delineation. Especially given that considerable minorities resident within the UK do not consider themselves to be British. Obviously a political choice made by the Johnson regime.

I assume it's future proofing to ensure that when Norn fucks off and joins Ireland the passport title makes sense.

'United' part of United Kingdom is also a lie to large to sell even for this lot.

Either way It does seem a bit superfluous to be putting 'British Passport' on the top, and then 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' on the bottom. Most countries seem content with not having to define the nationality of the passport twice.

I guess I just prefer cleaner design (though Switzerland were always going to win on that front).

It still says UKoGBaNI.

I actually don’t see why they need the superfluous BRITISH PASSPORT though. It’s just chucking a wanker sign at Europe. Bit childish.

BRITISH PASSPORT comes across as a bit Monopoly money to me tbh.

Those responsible for the design were clearly instructed to make it look as much like the old ones as possible; hence the gammon pleasing words across the top. I suppose those pleased to see the "blue" return will similarly be pleased to see the superfluous nationalistic title.

auld passport

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The last comment is pure guff. Take the daughter on a great holiday in the summer and she'll likely forgive and forget. If this is the worst thing that happens to her she's a lucky girl.

It's not though...I know 3 people who were born to young parents who then split up and their parents have met someone new and created new families. They all feel massively left out of these new families and it hurts them a lot. I don't know how anyone can mitigate that but it is very real.

 

[skyscraper101]

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I was always aware the old ones had it. I just think it's as unnecessary now as it was then, but I won't be losing any sleep over it.

Still nothing quite says progressive and forward thinking Britain like raking up the old passport design from the 80s

 

[Pickman's model]

I was always aware the old ones had it. I just think it's as unnecessary now as it was then, but I won't be losing any sleep over it.

Still nothing quite says progressive and forward thinking Britain like raking up the old passport design from the 80s

all the passport designers live in the eu27 now

 

[Spymaster]

It's not though...I know 3 people who were born to young parents who then split up and their parents have met someone new and created new families. They all feel massively left out of these new families and it hurts them a lot. I don't know how anyone can mitigate that but it is very real.

That's a different thing though and of course it hurts but sadly it happens to many thousands of families and children. Kids have to learn to manage the consequences and most do reasonably well, ime. The point I was making was that this is temporary damage and it's repairable over a little time whereas the damage to the existing family and financial loss of cancelling the holiday may be less so. The father is the best person to make that call.

 

[skyscraper101]

This is quite interesting.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The father asked the mother to check the passport details. She gave him an expiry date that would have been valid. When they got to the airport they found it wasn't.

At best the mother was totally incompetent. At worst she deliberately tried to sabotage the holiday. Her fault either way.

As soon as we realised her passport had expired - I left her at the airport

"I thought at the time I was making the right decision... but now she's stopped speaking to me."

www.kidspot.com.au

It seems the father then tried to stay at home with the daughter but the other wife threatened to cancel the whole holiday if he didn't go.

This should end here.

If what is written there is true*, it would seem the mother purposefully sabotaged her daughter's holiday to cause a rift between her daughter and her ex. Which is nasty.






* listen to any batman hanging off Buck-House and his story sounds plausible too, the real truth with splits/custody etc. is sadly often a long way away from what is quoted.

 

[Yossarian]

Some of the Remain passport covers are a little full-on.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Some of the Remain passport covers are a little full-on.

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You'd have to be a bit of a pathetic child to put that on your passport.

 

[Marty1]

The old passports were very, very dark blue (black). That's what the story is about.

Spoiler

 

[brogdale]

Spoiler

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That's the current passport.

 

[Chilli.s]

Old passports were black not blue.

Leaving child at airport (with grandad), is that even news?

Patel annoys me again.

 

[skyscraper101]

They were sometimes black and sometimes dark blue. It was basically whatever colour ink the passport office had at the time because nobody ever gave a flying fuck about this until recently so nobody ever settled on a pantone.

 

[Marty1]

That's the current passport.

Soon to be the old passport.

 

[skyscraper101]

Some of the Remain passport covers are a little full-on.

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In European Blue.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Soon to be the old passport.

9 years on mine

 

[Spymaster]

If what is written there is true*, it would seem the mother purposefully sabotaged her daughter's holiday to cause a rift between her daughter and her ex. Which is nasty.

Well it's either that or she's made a genuine mistake and misread the expiry date (or he's misheard her), which seems unlikely, but the fact that she's allowing the kid to go away with the father's family suggests to me that the father and mother have reached some level of cordiality.

 

[brogdale]

Soon to be the old passport.

As I said, current.

 

[skyscraper101]

It's actually not, because it doesn't have the biometric logo on it.

</pedant>

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I only got mine renewed this year so I'll have a red one for ages. Hey ho!

 

[Yossarian]

You'd have to be a bit of a pathetic child to put that on your passport.

Yep - I don't remember, did people start putting Union Jack covers etc. on their passports when the EU ones first came in, or did people have more important shit to worry about in those days?

 

[brogdale]

I only got mine renewed this year so I'll have a red one for ages. Hey ho!

Red?
Oh...here we go...