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muriel_volestrangler

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7. The Little Englanders are overjoyed by this

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Fri Dec 22, 2017, 01:02 PM

Dec 2017

On a British forum, they're delirious - "important victory", "battle" ,"war", "one in the eye for Juncker and his unelected cronies", "potent symbol" ... it takes so little to please their parochial outlook. They really seem to think they'll be able to wave around a passport and, thanks to the blue colour, they'll get some form of special treatment they've been denied since 1988.

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'Iconic' blue British passport to return after Brexit [View all] shenmue Dec 2017 OP

Over 32 large financial services companies have already begun moving to EU countries Vinnie From Indy Dec 2017 #1

Probably a good thing. There are also some good things to come from national identity. RelativelyJones Dec 2017 #2

See below. n/t Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #4

Okay, I'll bite. Please name some of them. DetlefK Dec 2017 #5

I also would have voted remain if in the UK, but more than half did not RelativelyJones Dec 2017 #6

Propagandized, not trolled LeftishBrit Dec 2017 #9

UK was always isolationist. Always. DetlefK Dec 2017 #10

The UK always had a very effective balance of power strategy in Europe. RelativelyJones Dec 2017 #12

The burgundy passport never stopped us from having a national identity LeftishBrit Dec 2017 #8

Here are the colours of current European countries' passports: Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #3

The Little Englanders are overjoyed by this muriel_volestrangler Dec 2017 #7

Oh we'll get special treatment alright T_i_B Dec 2017 #11

Blue passports could have been re-introduced without Brexit, Government admits Denzil_DC Dec 2017 #13