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 [to press] 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 debarcle. 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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Some research went into that, didn’t it, TS? Congratulations. HMG’s spinning us a line of old jizz – probably because the decision was vetted by a SPAD with one O level, on work placement, and there, condensed in one brilliant cunting, is the proof.
All idle editor cunts, please copy and print.
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You can bet your life that plenty of those passports will go missing…….and become part of a weekly delivery to the child refugees in Calais, along with razors and shaving soap.
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Only our Government would be so weak as to allow our passports to be printed abroad . What better way to signal to the world that Brexit is really going ahead than paying the French,of all people,to produce the symbol of our independence.
I’d have thought the security implications were too important to allow a nation of Cunts like the French,who are only too happy to shovel every criminal in Calais,the means to dish out unlimited British passports. Again.that fucking old bitch, May,and her weaselly colleagues are betraying Brexit…get used to it,the auld trout has no intention of seeing a true Brexit delivered. She truly is Cameron’s bitch.
Fuck them.
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A righteous cunting – I would gladly supply you with the baseball bat although I would add some Made in UK nails to it.
I don’t know who the bigger cunts are – the UK Government and its associated ‘Jobs for Life for inept cunts’ Civil Service or the EU. The world is in the midst of a Zombie Apocalypse only instead of Zombies it is churning out Cunts.
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A truly staggering decision made by a department that doesn’t give a fuck about doing anything properly any more. Every fucking decision is the wrong one.
What really pisses me off is the Remoaners revelling in the fact it is yet another nail in this country’s coffin.
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It’s symbolic – the Government are sending a signal to Remoaners, reassuring them that Brexit is on track to be IN NAME ONLY.
And a putrid fart in the faces of Leavers and democracy.
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