Turns out those blue Brexit passports will be made in France – our 13 favourite responses
In breaking Brexit news, it turns out those ‘iconic’ blue passports everyone will be getting when we eventually leave the EU will be made in France.
The boss of the company which currently makes the existing (red) passports said the £490m contract to make the new ones had gone to a Franco-Dutch firm based in France.
Zut alors!
Here are 13 of our favourite online responses to keep you amused while you wait in the ‘non-EU’ arrivals queue.
1.
On passports, I still think the best idea is to let people choose their own colour:
Maroon passport = you can continue to travel freely, work and live across the EU.
Blue passport = you can’t do any of that but you have a blue passport.Everyone’s happy!
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) March 22, 2018
2.
The front cover for the new blue passports that brexiteers have been jizzing themselves over have been revealed by the french company that will make them pic.twitter.com/T2n5GEYKHx
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) March 22, 2018
3.
Having spent the best part of two years predicting that eventually they'd only have fish and passports left to whine about, I'm currently feeling rather frightened of my prophetic powers.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) March 22, 2018
4.
"bloody foreigners, staying over there and taking our jobs". https://t.co/T8kwvWWUXz
— GlennyRodge (@GlennyRodge) March 22, 2018
5.
I tell you what would be cool. Yellow passports!
— Richard Osman (@richardosman) March 22, 2018
6.
You know how the Brexiters said blue passports were symbolic?
Anyways we didn't actually need to leave the EU to get them, they're going to cost £490million and the job of making them will go to France.
Pretty fucking symbolic, I guess. pic.twitter.com/UMdo32wNT3
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) March 21, 2018
7.
It doesn’t matter what side you are on Brexit, letting the French make our passports is bloody ridiculous.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) March 22, 2018
