Keeping up with the latest Brexit News

EarthRod

Here's a little bit of news:

Blue passport to return after Brexit

Back to the blue British passports after Brexit.

rancidpunk

We've also seen the brexit impact reports sector analyses published. Finally got around to writing something.

Brexit sectoral analyses published by Committee - News from Parliament

tapzilla2k

A passport serves a function, they could be pink for all I care.
Ed Miliband on Twitter

Some of it reads like GCSE Geography etc coursework.

rancidpunk

Ah, that's who Davis outsourced it to.

IronGiant

Yawn...
Seriously though.  Can we try and keep the party political bickering out of this thread?

And even more seriously, didn't passports used to be black?

nabby

Fact 1) Blue passports were only brought in the UK around 1921.
Fact 2) The EU doesn't stop us from having blue passports. Croatia has them still.
Fact 3) The shape of the passport was altered to make them machine-readable. This was "forced upon" us by the Civil Aviation Organisation, not the EU.

So much for a Brexit win against the shackles of the EU.

tapzilla2k

That's just a sample of the reaction (Ed M is quite tame compared to others) and I'm sure most people will understand that changing the passports to blue won't cost £500 million. That's just the normal cost of updating the security measures used to prevent fraudulent passports.

Passports serve a precise function, the colour is immaterial to that function. Hence why I couldn't care less if they were pink or orange.  

Interesting court case coming up Legal action to see whether UK could unilaterally stop Brexit gets go-

IronGiant

Colour is immaterial, but I asked a genuine question

IronGiant

Not sure why you are repeating points made in the referenced article (apart from point 3 which no-one has suggested was down to the EU either)...

EarthRod

There are only four colours used in passport covers worldwide: black, blue, red or green

The British passport introduced in 1920 was dark blue.