Britain's next big choice: What colour should our passports be??? - Polidicks

Slow line unless you qualify for Irish citizenship :smug:

[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Passport_design_world_map.png[/IMG] passport colour by country

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;51053012][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Passport_design_world_map.png[/IMG] passport colour by country[/QUOTE] Do they actually all use the same shades of colours, or is that just for the sake of the map? If they do, do you think there is some international passport supplier that Government's go to that only offer a various choice of colours?

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;51053012][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Passport_design_world_map.png[/IMG] passport colour by country[/QUOTE] my god norway really is communist

I like the look of the burgundy passport, contrasts nicely with the gold and looks closer to being worth 80 smackaroos than the blue. This is such a typical non-issue for the Sun to focus on though, reeks of the inane 'SOVEREIGNTY' bullshit the tabloids love.

[QUOTE=Menien Goneld;51053757]I like the look of the burgundy passport, contrasts nicely with the gold and looks closer to being worth 80 smackaroos than the blue. This is such a typical non-issue for the Sun to focus on though, reeks of the inane 'SOVEREIGNTY' bullshit the tabloids love.[/QUOTE] this bs started just after brexit. I think farage was involved somehow. Perhaps their plan is to unveil a series of trivial distractions so people forget how much of a fuck up brexit was.

[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;51051356]This is why Americans get mocked, because they so often think of themselves as the centre of the world. 77 countries other than the US use blue passports. It is by far the most common colour for passports.[/QUOTE] But our version of blue is better.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;51053780]But our version of blue is better.[/QUOTE] It's exactly the same shade of blue as the others. And blue dye is used because it is the cheapest, 'Murica!

Bizarre that they haven't just reverted everything back to what it was when you guys weren't in the EU.

[QUOTE=Sims_doc;51054444]Bizarre that they haven't just reverted everything back to what it was when you guys weren't in the EU.[/QUOTE] we haven't actually left yet and nobody seems to know when we will also, not even the dumbest of the brexiters thinks we should revert everything in the last 45 years or so

make it neon fuckin' green, you wont

[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;51054525]make it neon fuckin' green, you wont[/QUOTE] Green is used by Islamic countries (Suadi, UAE etc.). We haven't become Londonistan just yet

[QUOTE=Mythman;51054563]Green is used by Islamic countries (Suadi, UAE etc.). We haven't become Londonistan just yet[/QUOTE] The knuckle draggers in Britain first would have you believe otherwise. [editline]15th September 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;51054525]make it neon fuckin' green, you wont[/QUOTE] Put it up for referendum and it probably would be.

It should be royal purple. We need to show those peasants up, besides, it'll be unique.

I swear to jasus, if ya make the passport green, you Brits will get cold fuckin' looks from us. Don't even attempt it, if ya know what's good for you! On to the actual topic: considering that the UK is becoming more and more English dominated (as represented by the Brexit referendum), white seems to be a more appropriate colour than blue. After all, thanks to the Brexit voters you've basically surrendered yourselves to Tory control and corruption for the next few decades :^)

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51054866]I swear to jasus, if ya make the passport green, you Brits will get cold fuckin' looks from us. Don't even attempt it, if ya know what's good for you! On to the actual topic: considering that the UK is becoming more and more English dominated (as represented by the Brexit referendum), white seems to be a more appropriate colour than blue. After all, thanks to the Brexit voters [B]you've basically surrendered yourselves to Tory control and corruption for the next few decades[/B] :^)[/QUOTE] So when did we become a dictatorship? You know what people do in a democracy? They vote for a different party to lead them. That might be Labour, it might be the crazy Greens or deplorable Liberal Democrats, or the tories again. Come on mate think. Besides even if what you said were based in reality it would simply mean we swapped one set of corruption for a different set.

[QUOTE=Anteep;51054874]So when did we become a dictatorship? You know what people do in a democracy? They vote for a different party to lead them. That might be Labour, it might be the crazy Greens or deplorable Liberal Democrats, or the tories again. Come on mate think. Besides even if what you said were based in reality it would simply mean we swapped one set of corruption for a different set.[/QUOTE] That point was mostly factitious, but I'll point out that the UK democratic system is less democratic than the EU system. As well as that, the Tories have shown themselves to be readily willing to get rid of checks and balances (May was against the European Court of Human Rights and wanted to invest in mass surveillance), destroy the NHS (which they're actively doing to great success), and overall since the days of Thatcher take the country in a direction where workers are not looked after and business are. The austerity measures inflicted by Osborn along have already caused a lot of suffering, and consideirng that leaving the EU is only going to cause more economic policies, I can see his policies continuing. As for those other parties - well, Labour are currently shitting the bed (not even Irish Labour has been fucking it up as bad as British Labour are, and they barely have enough seats to have speaking rights in the Dail right now), the Liberal Democrats have been discredited (because for some forsaken reason the junior party in coalitions always suffer... when usually the smaller party tried to stop the bigger party fucking up everything) but might get a rise if Labour continues to fall, and the only other third party I'm aware of is UKIP - who are lunatics. So no, you're at-least guaranteed Tories for the next few years (since a General Election hasn't been called, which is ridiculous as the entire situation from last year has radically changed) and if Labour doesn't get it's act together, I'd say you'll have to deal with their crap for a very, very long time. FPTP sucks.

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51054899]That point was mostly factitious, but I'll point out that the UK democratic system is less democratic than the EU system. As well as that, the Tories have shown themselves to be readily willing to get rid of checks and balances (May was against the European Court of Human Rights and wanted to invest in mass surveillance), destroy the NHS (which they're actively doing to great success), and overall since the days of Thatcher take the country in a direction where workers are not looked after and business are. The austerity measures inflicted by Osborn along have already caused a lot of suffering, and consideirng that leaving the EU is only going to cause more economic policies, I can see his policies continuing. As for those other parties - well, Labour are currently shitting the bed (not even Irish Labour has been fucking it up as bad as British Labour are, and they barely have enough seats to have speaking rights in the Dail right now), the Liberal Democrats have been discredited (because for some forsaken reason the junior party in coalitions always suffer... when usually the smaller party tried to stop the bigger party fucking up everything) but might get a rise if Labour continues to fall, and the only other third party I'm aware of is UKIP - who are lunatics. So no, you're at-least guaranteed Tories for the next few years (since a General Election hasn't been called, which is ridiculous as the entire situation from last year has radically changed) and if Labour doesn't get it's act together, I'd say you'll have to deal with their crap for a very, very long time. FPTP sucks.[/QUOTE] We were guaranteed Tories for the next few years regardless of the EU referendum. The next election is four years down the line, I wouldn't make predictions about it yet especially during a time when almost all predictions turn out to be hilariously wrong. I don't want the tories to win, but if they did that will be the will of the people.

[QUOTE=Anteep;51054874]So when did we become a dictatorship? You know what people do in a democracy? They vote for a different party to lead them. That might be Labour, it might be the crazy Greens or deplorable Liberal Democrats, or the tories again. Come on mate think. Besides even if what you said were based in reality it would simply mean we swapped one set of corruption for a different set.[/QUOTE] Tories don't have any legit challengers atm. Labour keep attacking themselves in this silly civil war bs and the papers keep up a narrative of labour being anti-semetic, inept, unelectable, far left communists. Tories have the media on their side, they're the incumbent, they have a load of pro-brexit clowns, they can somehow keep blaming labour for the global recession. They're trying to rejig parliament to strengthen their lead by removing opposing MPs. Theresa is p popular. Greens are unlikely to get in - too radical. Lib dems have 0 popularity. UKIP won't gain the mainstream but they might form a coalition with the tories (ideologically similar) further strengthening the tories. It's going to be tories for a while. At least I have a choice between wasting my vote on green, libdem or labour.

[QUOTE=bitches;51050991]a certain scene from the animated Anastasia film comes to mind[/QUOTE] "What I hate about this government... Everything's in RED!"