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France and Germany bidding to produce the new UK passport
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So looks like both Germany and France are bidding for the £490 million contract to produce the new passport/travel documents for the UK when we leave the EU.
While I am all for getting a good deal Do you think the contract should just go to a company in the UK and not put it out to tender.
Personally I think it would be bloody farcical leaving the EU and then have one of the two countries then make British passports. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"So looks like both Germany and France are bidding for the £490 million contract to produce the new passport/travel documents for the UK when we leave the EU.
While I am all for getting a good deal Do you think the contract should just go to a company in the UK and not put it out to tender.
Personally I think it would be bloody farcical leaving the EU and then have one of the two countries then make British passports."
Fingers crossed one of them wins....lets see the brexiters shout then about a trade deal  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Still talking like it's them and us leavers and remainers we are leaving we are all leavers init tgether lol"
Some aboard HMS Britannia are sailing against their will..Theyll be a mutiny on this voyage for sure.  |
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"Still talking like it's them and us leavers and remainers we are leaving we are all leavers init tgether lolSome aboard HMS Britannia are sailing against their will..Theyll be a mutiny on this voyage for sure. "
. Bob bet you have a pirate flag on your boat you love been a rebel you be digging out you musket soon lol |
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"Still talking like it's them and us leavers and remainers we are leaving we are all leavers init tgether lolSome aboard HMS Britannia are sailing against their will..Theyll be a mutiny on this voyage for sure. . Bob bet you have a pirate flag on your boat you love been a rebel you be digging out you musket soon lol"
I've even got the pirate accent my lovely and we all drink rum here. |
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"So looks like both Germany and France are bidding for the £490 million contract to produce the new passport/travel documents for the UK when we leave the EU.
While I am all for getting a good deal Do you think the contract should just go to a company in the UK and not put it out to tender.
Personally I think it would be bloody farcical leaving the EU and then have one of the two countries then make British passports."
As we are still in the EU and haven't left yet (don't leave until March 2019) then as part of our current EU membership rules we have to put the contract up for companies in the EU as well as on offer to companies here in the UK. I'm 99% sure a UK company will end up getting the contract though but if a French or German company did get it then it would prove that we'll still be trading and doing business with the EU after Brexit, (something remainers claim won't happen) as the contract will run beyond March 2019. |
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
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"So looks like both Germany and France are bidding for the £490 million contract to produce the new passport/travel documents for the UK when we leave the EU.
While I am all for getting a good deal Do you think the contract should just go to a company in the UK and not put it out to tender.
Personally I think it would be bloody farcical leaving the EU and then have one of the two countries then make British passports.
As we are still in the EU and haven't left yet (don't leave until March 2019) then as part of our current EU membership rules we have to put the contract up for companies in the EU as well as on offer to companies here in the UK. I'm 99% sure a UK company will end up getting the contract though but if a French or German company did get it then it would prove that we'll still be trading and doing business with the EU after Brexit, (something remainers claim won't happen) as the contract will run beyond March 2019. "
I've never seen a remainer say that there won't be any trade at all with the EU. Got a quote to back it up? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"So looks like both Germany and France are bidding for the £490 million contract to produce the new passport/travel documents for the UK when we leave the EU.
While I am all for getting a good deal Do you think the contract should just go to a company in the UK and not put it out to tender.
Personally I think it would be bloody farcical leaving the EU and then have one of the two countries then make British passports.
As we are still in the EU and haven't left yet (don't leave until March 2019) then as part of our current EU membership rules we have to put the contract up for companies in the EU as well as on offer to companies here in the UK. I'm 99% sure a UK company will end up getting the contract though but if a French or German company did get it then it would prove that we'll still be trading and doing business with the EU after Brexit, (something remainers claim won't happen) as the contract will run beyond March 2019. "
Another hot air quote with no substance...id love to see were anyone remainers or leavers have said this in fact anyone  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Still talking like it's them and us leavers and remainers we are leaving we are all leavers init tgether lol"
Not me. I am leaving to the eu in 2 weeks lol.
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"So looks like both Germany and France are bidding for the £490 million contract to produce the new passport/travel documents for the UK when we leave the EU.
While I am all for getting a good deal Do you think the contract should just go to a company in the UK and not put it out to tender.
Personally I think it would be bloody farcical leaving the EU and then have one of the two countries then make British passports.
As we are still in the EU and haven't left yet (don't leave until March 2019) then as part of our current EU membership rules we have to put the contract up for companies in the EU as well as on offer to companies here in the UK. I'm 99% sure a UK company will end up getting the contract though but if a French or German company did get it then it would prove that we'll still be trading and doing business with the EU after Brexit, (something remainers claim won't happen) as the contract will run beyond March 2019. "
another liad if lies you have some stranger statements do you make them up or do you not read posts correctly
Try spec savers |
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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago
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"So looks like both Germany and France are bidding for the £490 million contract to produce the new passport/travel documents for the UK when we leave the EU.
While I am all for getting a good deal Do you think the contract should just go to a company in the UK and not put it out to tender.
Personally I think it would be bloody farcical leaving the EU and then have one of the two countries then make British passports."
UK passport designs are changed every five years, to protect against counterfeiting. This tender was part of that cycle, and bids had to be in by April this year.
The Sunday Times "reports" that three companies have been shortlisted and says that a French company as well as a German company have made the shortlist, with the winning candidate being announced before Christmas. They don't name either company, but do name the UK one also on the shortlist. I believe that passport production was brought back to the UK from the USA during the last five year cycle.
Bear in mind this was reported by the Sunday Times, the paper whose claim that we had settled on a E50bn "divorce bill", was debunked as a myth the very same weekend. |
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"Still talking like it's them and us leavers and remainers we are leaving we are all leavers init tgether lol"
I'll never back wrecking my country just so a load of plastic patriots can put their collective finger up to Johnny Foreigner.
We're not all 'init together' and it's still more than possible that we might not actually leave and, even if we do, I'll still never back BREXIT or any body economically and politically daft enough to support such a clearly disastrous idea. |
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"So looks like both Germany and France are bidding for the £490 million contract to produce the new passport/travel documents for the UK when we leave the EU.
While I am all for getting a good deal Do you think the contract should just go to a company in the UK and not put it out to tender.
Personally I think it would be bloody farcical leaving the EU and then have one of the two countries then make British passports.
As we are still in the EU and haven't left yet (don't leave until March 2019) then as part of our current EU membership rules we have to put the contract up for companies in the EU as well as on offer to companies here in the UK. I'm 99% sure a UK company will end up getting the contract though but if a French or German company did get it then it would prove that we'll still be trading and doing business with the EU after Brexit, (something remainers claim won't happen) as the contract will run beyond March 2019. "
Yet another BREXIT lie. No one has said that we won't trade with the EU/EEA after BREXIT. What has been said is that it will be harder to trade into the EU/EEA because there may well be tariffs and almost definitely additional red tape, bureaucracy and time consuming controls a the border; all of which will add cost. |
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
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The only ever passports I have had have always been the current colour. I did think that I was happy with this, until the black/blue/navy debate pushed me to the wikipedia page, and saw the emergency passports in cream. Now I think that is a really nice looking passport. What do you think?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The only ever passports I have had have always been the current colour. I did think that I was happy with this, until the black/blue/navy debate pushed me to the wikipedia page, and saw the emergency passports in cream. Now I think that is a really nice looking passport. What do you think?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport "
I want a Red, White & Blue passport to go with my Red, White & Blue Brexit  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The only ever passports I have had have always been the current colour. I did think that I was happy with this, until the black/blue/navy debate pushed me to the wikipedia page, and saw the emergency passports in cream. Now I think that is a really nice looking passport. What do you think?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport
I want a Red, White & Blue passport to go with my Red, White & Blue Brexit "
To go with your Union Jack underpants |
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