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Dec 25th 2017, 11:19 am

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Re: Passport Colour

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Originally Posted by scot47

I was referring to the FCO budget cut of 50 percent that led to passports being produced centrally instead of in the local Embassy.

None of the Empire Loyalists took up my whinge about aircraft carriers without aircraft. Does no one else see that as a lunacy ?

Not a great idea, no. We only ended up with them at all because HMG displayed their usual brilliance at procurement and it would cost more to cancel them then to have them built. If Boy George had had his way then we would no longer have a navy. Thankfully HMG was sabotaged by its own incompetence.

Merry Christmas btw

Dec 25th 2017, 12:30 pm

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Re: Passport Colour

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Originally Posted by scot47

scot, did you see this article in the Graun today? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...efugees-asylum

Nice.

Dec 25th 2017, 7:06 pm

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Re: Passport Colour

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Originally Posted by scot47

...aircraft carriers without aircraft. Does no one else see that as a lunacy ?

If they'd bought aircraft as well there'd be no money left to repair the leaking carrier

Dec 26th 2017, 11:19 am

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Re: Passport Colour

I think it is good that there are 24 families together. Near us we have one family, housed and sponsored by a local charity. There will be another family in six months time. They have no Arabic interpreter, so the EFL teachers are using google translate. It must be very lonely for them, despite all the goodwill from the local community.