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[JBX]

The new post-Brexit British passport will be blue : 

 

 

 

...oh, and it will be manufactured in France...

[7inarow]

Saving the British taxpayers £100 million in the process.

[fixitsan]

The new post-Brexit British passport will be blue : 

 

 

 

...oh, and it will be manufactured in France...

 

 

c'est noir !

[Robodene]

Better wait to see which contract gets signed in the end.

[dapleb]

I think that's a mint jelly licence. 🤗

[Studley Ramrod]

Which we will use to go biking in Spain where they haven't recently reduced speed limits, unlike France.

[Rallyist]

Which we will use to go biking in Spain where they haven't recently reduced speed limits, unlike France.

 

Yet

[Robodene]

I have only just learned that EU rules require 'blind' quotes. I suppose it might have been a group of 'ex-pats' in Spain?

[Favs]

I'd like a new passport,

 

I don't really care where it's made.  

 

I'd like to visit European countries without having to join a separate slow-moving queue  or having to walk in backwards with my trousers around my ankles.

I'd like it to say........... member of the EU     

and then the fighting started........

[pete7]

I'd like a new passport,

 

I don't really care where it's made.  

 

I'd like to visit European countries without having to join a separate slow-moving queue  or having to walk in backwards with my trousers around my ankles.

I'd like it to say........... member of the EU     

and then the fighting started........

 

 

 

 

 

... and so would most people under 45, whose futures depend on easy, free, trade with 500 million customers who wwant to buy stuff and services, on their doorstep. Sadly many of our generation (65-plus I guess) seem to have let 'em down

 

Let's hope we all see sense before the worst happens ... BUT don't worry we've got these lovely blue (French) passports

 

P7

 

(sorry ... but this is getting worrying) 

[Quartermaster]

 

 

 

 

... and so would most people under 45, whose futures depend on easy, free, trade with 500 million customers who wwant to buy stuff and services, on their doorstep. Sadly many of our generation (65-plus I guess) seem to have let 'em down

 

Let's hope we all see sense before the worst happens ... BUT don't worry we've got these lovely blue (French) passports

 

P7

 

(sorry ... but this is getting worrying) 

 

Agreed Pete,

 

Though Carpe isn't a political platform so best to keep it light hearted if poss.

 

Life for me is going to be a whole lot harder as a sizeable chunk of what we make is shipped directly into Europe, and we won this many years ago from 13 European-based operations. You can guess what is likely to happen to our hard won business and the staff's livelihoods that depend on it. Ironically the majority of my guys voted to leave but no one ever gave me a plausible explanation. Most would now vote to remain given a 2nd chance.

[fixitsan]

Mark my words, or I'll eat my helmet.

 

Brexit will not happen.....at least not the version of Brexit the most extreme xenophobes want. Which is why I stand by original statement, it doesn't matter how you vote , the outcome is predetermined.

 

Now it's just a matter of negotiating Brexit while remaining members of the customs union, the free trade area, a 'negotiable' immigration freedom wotnot.

 

Wouldn't surprise me if they create a heartstoppingly scary story about a Russian who gets poisoned and all the of the EU come out and support the UK so that ultimately it will only take a simple "You, see, we might not get this level of support if we are outside the EU. Better be scared of Russia on our own "

 

 

...He said, rubbing jam on a Shoei helmet to make it more tasty.....

[Swarf]

Oh god, not a Brexit thread.....🤐

[fixitsan]

Oh god, not a Brexit thread.....

 

I know but....

 

In a couple of hours i'm driving my elderly parents into the centre of Leeds to go to a wedding, and I've just found out there's a Brexit protest march (in March, how funny)  with an expected 30000 protestors choking up the centre.

 

Leeds, the well known political powerhouse of the UK. Why not London ? , that's what it's there for !

[Scurve]

Leeds United dont get that many for a home game

Up the Terriers   

Edited by Scurve, 24 March 2018 - 11:35 am.

[Favs]

2020

[fixitsan]

Leeds United dont get that many for a home game

Up the Terriers 

 

Haha....   never been the same since Billy Bremner 

2020

 

 

Having an Irish Grandmother means I qualify for an Irish (EU) passport.... phew !

[Bjørge]

I thought you guys were old enough to remember a time before UK became an EU (EEC) member... life wasn't really that much harder, was it ? 

[pete7]

I thought you guys were old enough to remember a time before UK became an EU (EEC) member... life wasn't really that much harder, was it ? 

 

 

That was in the days when we could get away with selling Austin Morris cars and Triumph-BSA motor cycles ....

 

... I think we need to be a bit more competitive in 2019

 

It's why we have been successfully working with companies like Nissan in Sunderland for the last 30 years!

 

Let's hope we get some business sense before March next year

 

P7

[Rallyist]

I doubt it look at the present situation with GKN, this should be vetoed on security/defence worries