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You've not seen my thread for tomorrow.
Or maybe he's not involved... and he just wants to attract attention
Coming from a Toon supporter, that is a big statement
I really like these EU top dogs like Guy V and Donald Tusk. They exude class. Meanwhile, back in Blighty, let’s take you straight to John Redwood....
Somebody needs to.
"Only joking...."
The top dogs in the EU are Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the Commission, then Donald Tusk as President of the European Council, then Antonio Tajani as President of the European Parliament along with Michel Barnier as chief Brexit negotiator with the UK.
Verhofstadt can afford to troll as he has no real decision making power
I didn't vote LEAVE to get a different passport.
This will annoy remainers as I will become increasingly insular elderly and grumpy.
This will annoy leavers as I will still have a burgundy passport with European Union written on it.
Getting a blue-covered passport is the only thing the Tories are being open about- It is their greatest triumph.
At the same time as they distract everybody from their sell-out.
A blue coloured passport will be followed by free movement replaced by work permits and the end of most ECJ jurisdiction over the UK once the transition period ends in 2021.
It'll be exactly the same bar not having the words "European Union" on it. And bar the lengthy queues that we're likely to enjoy at border crossings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdJtlEceS_8
Pass the port?
Yes, please.
UK officially falls out of world’s top five economies, Government admits
That'll be the impoverishment starting already!
Couldn't be happier we're leaving.
It's symbolic alright- of how utterly irrelevant this passport issue is apart from to headbangers. That headbangers and CCHQ parrots such as your good self are so Proud of this Achievement is genuinely funny.
Your Random Capitalization looks a bit Odd, btw.
(Graham from Glasgow, Warre's - the Symington family, Churchill's - the Cunynghame family from Ayrshire, Dow's - the Ramsey Dows)
Kate Maltby, the Tory activist who made allegations of inappropriate behaviour against Damian Green, believes that his allies orchestrated a ferocious media onslaught in order to discredit her.
The Observer understands that the Whitehall inquiry that led to the de facto deputy prime minister’s sacking last week was handed material, seen by Maltby, that suggested that Green’s supporters fuelled negative articles about her after she made her claims.
Several sources familiar with the investigation said that the attacks on Maltby backfired and contributed to the first secretary of state’s forced departure. In her letter dismissing Green, Theresa May said that those affected by inappropriate behaviour should be able to “speak out if they need to”.
Green and his closest aides deny any suggestion that they contributed in any way to the attacks on Maltby. But Maltby is adamant that collusion between his allies led to a hostile and personal article in the Daily Mail, headlined “One very pushy lady”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/23/damian-green-plotted-kate-maltby
However I would argue in practice that our top seat at the UN was under more threat from a federal EU claiming it than from losing it by loss of influence. Even if we divorce from Scotland and Northern Ireland England and Wales would still be stronger than any comparable military power. India may come to rival us in time but (a) it has a fair way to go and (b) its ambitions remain quite localised in a way that ours are not.
Margaret Thatcher’s key foreign policy adviser has mocked commentators rejoicing over the decision to change the colour of the British passport, describing it as nostalgia driven by ageing Eurosceptics.
Confirming it was Thatcher’s government who “chose” to ditch the blue passport in the 1980s – under no pressure from the European Union – Charles Powell said the clamour for the old-style travel document was “part of the nostalgia on which the predominantly elderly Brexit constituency thrives”.
May had sought to end a mostly fraught political year on a triumphant note by announcing the return of navy passports after Brexit, describing them an expression of “independence and sovereignty”. However, by Saturday morning, her move to change the colour of new passports in 2019 was being attacked by some as a PR stunt, as it became clear there is no Brussels legislation stating that EU countries’ passports had to be a certain colour.
Powell rebuked politicians and commentators who have greeted the announcement, saying: “So long as they are content with symbols, rather than substance, I see no harm in letting them have their way. Perhaps we should go the whole hog and reintroduce ambassadorial dress uniforms, as well as bowler hats and stiff collars for senior civil servants.”
Powell, who served as private secretary to Thatcher from 1983 to 1990, added: “If we get their agreement to full alignment with the single market in return, it’s a good deal.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/23/blue-passport-brexit-pr-stunt-says-former-thatcher-aide-charles-powell
More likely in the longer term India, Japan and Germany (if France has not given up its seat for the EU) will be added to the existing P5 of the US, Russia, France, the UK and China than we give up our permanent seat.
As has been noted before, this is change to our passports has been achieved in large part by voters who never use a passport anyway. Marvellous!
Of course the overall design is determined by the ICAO where the UK (in its own right) is a 'State of Chief Importance' (one of 11)
The EU isn't a member, just 'an observer'.
My point was however that if vetoes applied in such cases then Taiwan would still have China's seat, because it could have vetoed UN recognition of Mao. Your argument therefore didn't work.
I thought he lied about being told that porn had been found?
I thought he lied about being told that porn had been found?
European MPs have voted on Wednesday in favor of requesting their own permanent representative at the UN Security Council.
https://www.rt.com/news/eu-un-security-council-representative/
I don't recall seeing 'NAFTA' written on the front of a Canadian passport.
The equivalent would be Corbyn taking office and the Tories forming a government in exile on the Isle of Wight say and the UN for a time recognising the latter, rather than the former, as holding the UK seat on the Security Council, not the UK losing that seat altogether
We wanted a blue one why didn't we make them blue? We could have done, so it's not about colour is it? Because colour is irrelevant
Re: the EU. One only needs to read the U.N. charter to see why the EU could not have a seat on the SC. For a start it isn’t a state, but even beyond that U.N. membership imposes obligations on members, particularly military obligations, which are beyond the current competences of the European Commission (the assumed representative) to deliver.
That you brought up the term "white trash" is particularly telling.
I was out with the Beaufort on Wednesday, for a thoroughly enjoyable day of trail hunting.
I want to keep a burgundy passport; the proposed blue one looks absolutely naff.
I know quite a few Tories who say they were harmed by Mrs May's intervention on fox hunting during the campaign, coupled with the ivory ban, it made the Tories look nasty.