Passport colour has UK in pickle
I don’t particularly care what colour a British passport is. I didn’t mind when the UK Government – note, not the EU – changed it from blue to red. What I do care about is that when we leave, all British citizens now and in generations to come will lose the automatic right, as EU citizens, to travel freely in the 27 other member countries, and to live and work there.
This is a clear case of symbols over substance, flag-waving while taking away people’s rights.
The move to change our passports from red back to blue clearly illustrates perfectly what Brexit really involves. There has been a lot of snide comments from the Remain side following the announcement that we will return to the old blue passports once we leave the EU. But this is a symbol of the UK regaining our sovereignty from the corrupt and bureaucratic EU. What has happened to our sense of pride in our national identity? Our forefathers who fought for freedom and democracy must be turning in their graves at the lack of patriotism shown by so many in this country. So much for Theresa May’s achievements in 2017. The country is faced with a Brexit divorce bill of £39billion. There is to be no bespoke trading agreement if we leave the single market and Customs Union. Our economy is further weakened and the PM had to do a deal with the right-wing DUP to prop up her Government after losing the election. On the positive side, we are to regain our dark blue passport. What the Tories didn’t say was that the EU didn’t change the colour, we did. Meanwhile, inequality and poverty are haunting our country. We seem to be heading for a soft Brexit to appease the Remainers of both parties. This is totally unacceptable to the majority of voters who demanded we leave the EU. Any transitional arrangement would, in effect, keep us in the EU in all but name because we’d have to abide by their rules and accept freedom of movement until 2021. This is not what the people voted for. We must leave the EU in 2019, either with a suitable trade deal or without. The Tories have no trade deal with the EU, nor any deals in place with anyone else in the world. Meanwhile, the pound is falling and an uncertain future awaits us.
Yet they get excited about us getting back our blue passports. Heaven help us. We could have actually kept our blue passports if we hadn’t chosen to have the same
colour as other EU countries. Why don’t we have a cross-party committee of Brexit supporters to negotiate our exit from the EU, instead of the divided and unruly Tory Party? Surely it is democratic for those who supported Leave to negotiate what the country voted for?