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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 12:45:12 GMT
You'd think they were in the EU by the amount of Chinese crap they've had shipped over here. And all the UK universities are full of fee-paying Chinese. You miss the point so I'll expand. We don't have to include China in a government procurement exercise, because China is not in the EU.
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Post by thebfg on Mar 23, 2018 13:11:10 GMT
A YouGov poll suggested half of people would prefer the passports to be made in Britain, regardless of cost;
I may of missed it but does anyone actually know where they will be made. They do have two English factories so possably could still be made here by brits.
Personally I don't care.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 15:04:11 GMT
A YouGov poll suggested half of people would prefer the passports to be made in Britain, regardless of cost; I may of missed it but does anyone actually know where they will be made. They do have two English factories so possably could still be made here by brits. Personally I don't care. France I believe. The factories here were not successful bidders.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 23, 2018 15:49:38 GMT
I don't know why you're having a go at me, I hadn't said anything about the colour of passports. I do think they should be made in Britain, though, by British workers, keeping all the inside personal info in this country, keeping the money within Britain, and not letting foreigners have access to Britain's secrets. Oh, that must be me, bottom right:
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 23, 2018 16:19:50 GMT
Spotted on t'Internet:
This is a difficult one because they BOTH deserve to have their fucking heads banged together (or, at least, nail-gunned to a passport).
Home Office: “Hey, we’re leaving the EU in 2019. What can we do to show our newfound independence and assert our national identity? I know! Let’s get the French to print our passports!”.
Fucking idiots.
The culture secretary, Matt Hancock, said that EU regulations were to blame.
Really?!
German passports are printed by Bundesdruckerei (German, state owned), Spanish passports are printed by Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (The Spanish Royal Mint for fuck’s sake!), Italian passports are printed by Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (Italy’s NATIONAL printing office – can you see a pattern developing?). French passports are printed by Groupe Imprimerie Nationale (French, state owned – quelle surprise). The French government even made the decision not to put the job out to tender AND THIS IS ACTUALLY ALLOWED UNDER EU RULES! Matt Hancock, take note.
De La Rue were apparently £120m more expensive over 5 years than the company who have been awarded the contract. Their chief executive, Martin Sutherland, apparently acknowledged that his company had been beaten on price in an “open competition” but he said that was “unfair”. He immediately took to the BBC to moan about it and said Theresa May or Amber Rudd, should “come to my factory and explain to my dedicated workforce why they think this is a sensible decision”. Well, it was a decision taken by a Government Department – just where the fuck do you think common sense came into it? Why don’t YOU go to your factory and explain that YOUR company was 120 million pounds more expensive than your competitors?
Surely The Home Office and De La Rue should have sat down for an “off the record” chat and prevented this nationally humiliating debacle. Give me 10 minutes in a room with Amber Rudd, Martin Sutherland, a baseball bat and immunity from prosecution and I think we could come to an amicable agreement to keep the remaining 80% of our passport printing in good old Blighty.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 18:55:47 GMT
Slimy frogs.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 24, 2018 6:05:42 GMT
Hundreds of jobs are at risk at De La Rue’s factory in Gateshead – where the country’s passports are currently made – if the deal is given to Gemalto. Did cheap labour at a Polish factory seal the deal? This is the Polish factory that could make Britain’s post-Brexit blue passports. It is owned by Gemalto, the Franco-Dutch company in line to be awarded the contract. A former worker at the plant, in the northern town of Tczew, said they suspect the firm might want to use the facility because Polish wages are up to two-thirds lower than in Britain. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5538073/Sign-petition-new-blue-passports-Britain.html
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 24, 2018 6:47:40 GMT
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