Blue Passport - to be made in France!!!!
 

YOU'VE GOT TO BE FCUKING KIDDING!!!!!

You couldn't make this one up - sweet jesus talk about shooting yourself in the face.... what a fcuking PR disaster.
God we are a laughing stock.

France don't tender their passport contract - they just do it themselves..... HELLLOOOOO Teresa May........
Thought Brexit was about supporting British interests and companies first..... :facepalm:

Already posted this on brexit thread .

"Take back control "

Haha

Contract hasn't been awarded yet, anglo dutch company underbid la Rue. Lets see if UK wants a PR disaster.

Knew there'd be outrage over this :lol1:

More pertinent is why was the UK firm charging £50million more?

For that much difference I'd be asking questions. The boss of the UK firm that lost out was quick to spout his disgruntlement...was he expecting to be able charge uncompetitive fees on the assumption that a UK passport must be made in the UK? If so, that's against EU rules... Which he may have not realised...we haven't left yet so are still bound by them.

Still, let the huff and puff media spin this which ever way they want it.:rolleyes:

Just said on the radio they were under cut by £100million! Not the 50 that was originally touted.

Seriously, and the boss of La Rue is wondering why he lost out? :cuckoo:

this story just exposes the bull**** of Brexit on so many levels it literally defies the ability of Brexitidots capability to understand it

and remember folks - France insist its passports (citing perfectly valid National Security reasons) are printed in France by a French company

so it can't be the EU!!!!!

how to confuse a Brexidiot - stand him in front of 5 shovels and ask him to take his pick

So, you are saying we should spend the extra £100million to have them made in the UK, because that's what the French would do? :D

The boss of De la Rue that is spitting feathers at this decision is a remain voter, and it was he who went public on this matter; Yet who was to say that if the UK had voted to remain Del La Rue would have continued to be the manufacturer?

As an aside, going by ours that have been issued from the past two years, the quality is sub-par anyway (badly laminated photo page). Maybe that was the reason to change? (Doubtful, but sweet revenge for them making me look like a tit at automated boarder controls ;) ).

Wasn’t this what ‘we’ voted for?
Welcome to the future of international competition.

And who needs a blue passport anyway? I’m more than happy with my current burgundy passport. I get to fastpath through the EU channels when I travel around Europe.

When will the UK come to it’s senses and end this Brexit stupidity?
Nothing about Brexit benefits Britain.

Well as I said, "on so many levels"

The arch free traders like Fox, IDS, Gove and Rees Morgue et al (backed by Minford and the loony Economist for Brexit cult) complaining of free market economics

You genuinely could not make it up - still Gateshead voted for it so Schadenfreude and all that

And as SWS points out we get a ****tier product

Our Passport topped the word rankings as the best travel document on the planet - giving better access to the entire word than any other passport

DeLaRue have issued a profit warning - Carillion style.

Indeed, they seem to regularly suffer with profit warnings stemming back to the 1990's. Highly likely the company has been on unsound foundations for well over a decade...yet continue to operate and enjoy lavish government contracts.

Maybe the £100million difference combined with accusations of the government being too pally with the likes of Carillion have seen the powers that be take a second look at offering contracts to companies in poor financial health?