True. It is the job of the police to investigate criminal matters. It is not the job of the police to further investigate matters which are legal, if not very savoury. It is even less the job of the police to leak such matters to the press.
100bn EUROS! OK, after Brexit the £/euro was virtually parity, but the £ has gained v the Euro thanks to the abandoning of hard Brexit. The current £40bn isn't set in stone as far as I'm aware; and we will probably still be paying in for access (it won't come free).
Not sure that Boris, The Truth and Reality sit together very comfortably.
However, Nigel Farage is an idiot.
I can't think of anything less important. My future prosperity is at risk, but at least I'll have a blue passport to use on the foreign trips I won't be able to afford.
Is it 'eck!
It may be important to some people, but I'm yet to come across any of them.
Think we should be able to choose our own colour - it's what's inside that counts. However the bigger issue may be what we will require to travel to Europe in addition to the passport. Although I accept it's pretty unlikely we shall need visas/equivalent there's still no conformation that will be the case, and we still don't know whether we will be treated as *aliens* or still be able to use the EU/EEA lanes as the Swiss do. When I travel through Euro airports I notice the lanes are marked EU/EEA + CH, so there's no reason why not. Still, if Brexit wants to make life difficult for everyone...
That is entirely in our gift - I fully expect that whatever requirements we impose will be reciprocated by the EU.
the one huge thing in our favour is they won't want to mess our tourists around, those really are big bucks, and I would suggest the reason why Spain is keeping relatively passive over Gibraltar. One of the big pulls of travelling to the EU/Europe is the lack of bureaucracy and how easy it is to pop over for a day*. And vice versa - them to us. If we start needing to obtain forms, visas, whatever, probably won't stop mass travel (maybe an early dip?) but could mean places without visas become more attractive? However, if we require EU's to have visas then that's a different kettle of worms, they are used to travelling around the EU with the minimum so why should they get all tooled up (with the extra expense and hassle) to come shopping in london when they can do it hassle-free in Luxembourg? And of course EU's don't holiday here for the weather!
I don't know where this idea has come from, but they were blue. Very, very dark blue, but they were blue.
I'm afraid that's just bad lighting.
I believe that they were black prior to 1920. So the switch to dark blue actually represents the start of the end of the Empire!
Or how many of us will splash out £70+ for an early replacement to make sure we have a burgundy one for as long as possible.
