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Poor Nigel!
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22nd Dec 2017 8:30pm
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I really felt quite sorry for him trying to talk up a blue passport as a great triumph for freedom, democracy, the British people, sovereignty, UKIP etc.
In fact, it is not the old large stiff inconvenient ones we've had in the past with two windows in the cardboard, it is tory-blue version of the smaller floppy EU one. It contains the same type of chip containing your biometrics and no doubt complies with the same electronic protocols as the EU one does.
In my opinion, the whole idea of a passport implies a restriction on your freedom, whoever it comes from. Why on earth should your freedom to roam the planet be constrained by governments anyway? They were originally introduced as an AID to travelers. A piece of paper backed by the government telling other government that the holder was a good chap and should be allowed free entry. Over the years it has morphed into a way of preventing those the government doesn't want to travel from doing so. Hardly something to celebrate in the name of freedom is it.
But I felt sorry for Nigel, attempting to do so. He was about as convincing as a chocolate teapot!
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Re: Poor Nigel!
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22nd Dec 2017 9:29pm
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Of course the biometrics comply with the same as the EU ones, they both conform to the ICAO standards, it would be no use having a passport that doesn't comply with international standards, it is after all primarily for travelling abroad rather home use.
The UK biometrics don't have as much information as many other countries have, its basically your picture and data, many other countries have fingerprints as well.
The burgundy colour wasn't obligatory under EU rules.
I'm quite happy to keep passports because they track criminals and in the absence of having national ID cards they are useful for proof of identity.
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Re: Poor Nigel!
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23rd Dec 2017 9:52am
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Scare tactics again and you know it !
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