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A french lorry "crash" with millions of uk passports dispersing on the fields of Calis would go down nicely with the refuges there
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*refugees
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yes foinavon your probably right, probably costs a lot less to produce
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There is no doubt that many will go missing in France
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Does anyone here know if this is going to be a tariff free deal?
maybe this is one of these predetermined carrots for the EU, so we can obtained a FTA deal with europe |
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beginning to think we might be better with tariffs
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Well said donny. Big picture.
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Hilarious. I assume that those that object to this on the grounds of harming the British economy only buy British goods that are manufactured in this country. If they didn't they'd sound awfully hypocritical.
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^That doesn't make sense, I would prefer not to have to pay for a passport at all, especially if the money is going to someone in France
I don't even care what colour it is |
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Baron might be a remainer, they are not capable of logical thought
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now a nice new Japanese motorbike, well that's a different thing
you cant beat Japanese technology |
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But I am not fussed about buying a British passport, from Japan
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James O'Brien on LBC, arguing that most of DeDe La Rue's business is done abroad, suggesting that if everybody followed the patriotic line De La Rue would go bust.
Shot down straight away by a caller telling him that most of their customers haven't got the expertise to produce their own stuff. And what kind of message does it send out to Del La Rue's customers that its own country doesn't use them to make their passports? As is the case with most left-wingers, the patriotism of James O'Brien is at question here. This is a case of what's best for Britain, but that argument to him seems totally irrelevant. If stuff is put out to tender, where's the rule that says you must accept the cheapest quote? |
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if de la rue did not exist then fair tendering might be an option
but it does exist, is a decent company and employs british workers if de la rue went and printed their jobs overseas they could do it cheaper but would cost jobs in uk if de la rue lose enough jobs they will go bust and like so much british industry will be gone, forever looking at brexit britain, the likes of de la rue are vital to uk economy still time for government to smell the coffee |
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Remainers such as the Baron are going to have to get something straight
those who voted for brexit did so because they thought it would be better for themselves, the same as those who voted remain.they are not under any obligation to give two hoots about the country That means they will continue to buy Japanese motorbikes if they so wish, as will the remainers, don't presume anything else |
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This is the sort of thing that remoaners would use as a strawman, e.g.
"Oh the brexiteers will all be so annoyed as they voted leave to get passports made in clacton, bet they feel stupid", like they did with the blue passport rubbish. But this is a stupid decision, diplomatically, politically. And financially it may be bad. If the price was half the uk figure it would probably make sense, but if it's a smaller fraction there is a break even point where money that is leaving the uk that would otherwise have remained and been recirculated in the UK means a bad deal for the UK. And this is probably the wrong side of that. I can see it being reversed. Also I'd see a security risk here. What's to stop buddies of the guy who just shot people in France today walking out with a few nice new passports ready to go to a forger? |