I’M glad to see ‘local’ sage Paul Nuttall back with his regular column. This time it’s the fanciful fables of ‘blue passports’ that get his mendacious imaginings.
The Home Office voluntarily chose to adopt the burgundy passports, so they could have been blue all along.
So changing them back now is a farcical ‘victory’ as there has never been an EU rule for the colour, merely guidance.
Similarly ‘EU competition rules’ don’t apply to anything as dull as forcing you to pick the cheapest offer for a printer as anyone who’s ordered a set of business cards will testify.
The choice of a Franco-Dutch company was made solely by the UK government.
I’m looking forward to Brexit, if nothing else it will see us as a nation having to face up to living with the consequences of our own decisions in the absence of the ‘Bogeyman’ of Brussels.
Louise VDB Cheshire
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