Cable Forum - Britain outside the EU

I have to be honest here. Whenever I am in trouble, I am British and nothing else. When my team was stuck in no man's land on the bridge between Hong Kong and China, the British embassy send staff within an hour. I had a French and a Cypriot in my team, their embassies did not care. UK was in the EU at the time, they took care of the EU nationals.

So the "navy" black passport has its value.

GrimUpNorth

01-08-2023 20:56

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36157746)

+2. Just have mine in front of me for an upcoming trip to Bilbao. Black as a turned-off TV screen. I think it's the French-owned manufacturers trolling us. :D

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36157752)

Blue enough.

Black and blue, pretty much sums up the battered and bruised state of the country under this shower we've got laughingly in power.

Ms NTL

01-08-2023 21:52

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36157752)

Blue enough.

Navy blue. And very powerful, if you need protection abroad.

From a family with a suitcase of EU ID cards.

1701-e

01-08-2023 22:11

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36157752)

Blue enough.

If course it could have been that colour within the EU so it's not really relevant.

1andrew1

01-08-2023 22:22

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Originally Posted by 1701-e (Post 36157762)

If course it could have been that colour within the EU so it's not really relevant.

It's relevant in that it answered the question about Johnson's Brexit vanity projects. But absolutely correct that we could have done so without Brexit.

Sephiroth

01-08-2023 22:33

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36157763)

It's relevant in that it answered the question about Johnson's Brexit vanity projects. But absolutely correct that we could have done so without Brexit.

The Remainer PMs of the time would never have countenanced the blue passport.

1andrew1

01-08-2023 22:47

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36157764)

The Remainer PMs of the time would never have countenanced the blue passport.

Doubt it would have been much of a worry. Blue would be closer to the EU colours.

That red colour was just the global recommended one to go through passport machines at the time.

Sephiroth

01-08-2023 23:01

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No passport machines in 1992.

spiderplant

01-08-2023 23:14

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36157767)

No passport machines in 1992.

"In 1986, the United States announced the US Visa Waiver Program. The UK was the first country to join the scheme in 1988; however, a requirement was that the traveller hold a machine-readable passport. On 15 August 1988, the Glasgow passport office became the first to issue burgundy-coloured machine-readable passports."

ianch99

02-08-2023 10:20

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36157769)

I think you won that one :D

1andrew1

02-08-2023 23:28

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Government has realised that implementing Brexit fully will further hit consumers in the pocket. So once again, the government has postponed border controls.

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Ministers announced as recently as April that a new “border target operating model” would start to be rolled out from October 31 with a full regime in place by October 2024.

But government insiders have told the Financial Times that while final details of the border plan would be published “very soon”, its implementation on the ground would be pushed back.

“The driving force behind this is the need to bear down on inflation, that’s why there will be a delay,” said one government insider briefed on the plan. “There will be additional costs at the border.”..

Nick von Westenholz, director of trade at the National Farmers Union, acknowledged that the government needed to protect consumers from price rises, but said that yet another delay would exasperate many farmers, who face barriers for their exports which are not being reciprocated on imports from the EU.

https://www.ft.com/content/d0673acb-...f-009be5ab14c3

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Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 36157779)

I think you won that one :D

Hands down! Sorry Seph.

Sephiroth

03-08-2023 06:48

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I am pleased to have made Ian’s day.

ianch99

03-08-2023 11:17

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36157857)

I am pleased to have made Ian’s day.

It's the little things that mean so much :D

Pierre

03-08-2023 14:36

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36157765)

Doubt it would have been much of a worry. Blue would be closer to the EU colours.

That red colour was just the global recommended one to go through passport machines at the time.

I’m currently in Turkey, when I went through passport control they couldn’t care less what colour our passports were, we have a mix.

Same for Mexico last year.

The EU is but one destination, in a very big world.

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