Boris Johnson Says Brexit Has Helped The Uk Bounce Back From Covid

[Hymie]

Maybe it has, and maybe it hasn’t – but Boris also announced some of the great Brexit pluses, including blue passports and the Crown Mark on pint glasses.

This got me thinking that it appears Boris is reading my posts on this site – but does not realise that I’m taking the p!§§ when I state that the great benefits of Brexit are blue passports and the Crown Mark on pint glasses (although I must admit, based on the posts from the pro-Brexit ABers – blue passports and the Crown Mark on pint glasses would indeed appear to be the highlights of the Brexit gains to the UK).

[joggerjayne]

Far from being a benefit, blue passports are an unpatriotic farce.

Burgundy passports were not imposed by the EU. As New Judge and ichkeria have pointed out, switching to burgundy was not a requirement. It was our choice. And, as ichkeria says, Croatia (an EU member since 2013) have retained their blue passports.

The UK adopted new, machine readable, passports in 1988. Margaret Thatcher introduced them and, at the same time, chose (freely) to adopt the burgundy colour.

Our burgundy passports were made in South Shields - in the UK.

Our new blue passports are made by Gemalto, a Franco-Dutch company, who manufacture them in Poland.

So our new "Brexit benefit" blue passports have taken away British jobs from the North of England (where jobs are needed), and given jobs away to the EU. And on top of that, we now (for the first time ever) have to buy our own passports back from the EU. I mean, honestly.

In addition, instead of using up the stock of blank burgundy passports, the Govt (symbolically) destroyed £8.6million worth of blank burgundy passports in March 2020.

Some of us still have a patriotic, British made, burgundy passport - introduced by Mrs Thatcher, and made by a British company in South Shields. Truly British!

If you have a new blue passport ... you have taken jobs away from Britain, and given those jobs away to workers in France, the Netherlands, and Poland. And you have cost the UK even more money, because we (the taxpayers) have had to buy your passport back from Poland.

Henley Global produce the Henley Global Index - a ranking of the international value of global passports. Until 2016, a burgundy UK passport was ranked global 1st (naturally). Now, a blue UK passport is ranked 16th= .

So ... if anyone wants to clarify how the new blue passports (which have taken away British jobs, cost £millions of British taxpayers' money, and significantly reduced our global travel status) are a "Brexit benefit" ...

I'm curious ...

[joggerjayne]

This was the difference between the Thatcher burgundy passports, and the Johnson blue passports.

Mrs Thatcher's patriotic burgundy passports:
- introduced the convenience of electronic scanning
- carried the freedom of movement from the recent Single European Act
- provided jobs for British workers

Johnson's unpatriotic blue passports:
- introduced the annoying inconvenience of having to go in the "other passports" queue at airports
- took away the freedom of movement given to us by Mrs Thatcher
- took away jobs from British workers, and sent those jobs abroad

And Johnson, who is doing so much harm to British society, has the audacity to compare his government to the government of Margaret Thatcher.