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This is a link post Some sort of metaphor

(dyllon nice beaver., Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not again!...damn you...damn you to hell.
I want my board back (sob)
 (I helped save b3ta! transparenttown Dead to worse..., Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post Quick, post a viddy and move this down the board.

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:30, , Reply)
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Correct response to this is actually to form a minority group of individuals with malfunctioning ocular apparatus and campaign relentlessly for a board wide referendum on the issue.
 (I helped save b3ta! transparenttown Dead to worse..., Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post Nah, sounds boring.

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well, that's interesting
*moves on to next link quickly
 (I helped save b3ta! The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:10, , Reply)
This is a normal post where's that tit who felt subjugated by the words 'European Union' on his passport?
Really we need his opinion to fully gauge the significance of this news
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post "Under EU procurement rules, the Home Office had been required to throw open the bidding process to European firms."
So when it comes for renewal we can be all patriotic and source it here at a higher cost if we really really want.

But really meh, not fussed.
Shall we move on?
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh dear.
I like this!
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 12:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hahahahaha.
What a fucking farce.
 (Huw Edwards #notalljews, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 13:08, , Reply)
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This isn't some kind of metaphor, goddamn, this is real.

I'll be well chuffed if anyone gets this
 (Enron Hubbard had a big meaty piss on, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 13:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post I get it.

(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 20:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post As long as they're blue.

(I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 13:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post 50m saved is 50 less tax
It's part of the EU rules that we have to open it up, so blame the EU :-)

Seriously though, this will be another May u-turn and it'll be given to a UK company in the end.
 (plankton, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 13:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post The firm who currently produces UK passports does it in Gateshead
£500m will pay the wages for a lot of people in Gateshead for a long time and they will all pay income tax, they will buy luxuries and pay VAT. They will buy houses and pay stamp duty. They will drive cars and pay road tax. They will raise children who will go on to care for our old people and pay tax and NI themselves. I'm pretty sure all that tax will far exceed 10% of their income. I certainly pay more than 10% tax. £450m to France just disappears and those people in Gateshead who lose their jobs will stop paying tax and start claiming benefits.

Christ I'm beginning to sound like a leave voter now. Maybe Corbyn is right about brexit.
 (I helped save b3ta! buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 17:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post But that £450m doesn't vanish
The French will buy some British roast beef with it.
 (I helped save b3ta! CanonCaliber A big bore, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 19:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Why would we do that?
Rather buy a Lotus, a Rover or a Vauxhall.
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 20:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post vauxhall are now frenchy owned, so not really endearing your self to us are you?
Lotus are Malaysian and Rover are owned by those damnable chinks. very little of our native car industry is actually Bitish any more
 (I helped save b3ta! fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Fri 23 Mar 2018, 11:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post That a bit the point.
You lot have nothing owed by you to sell us, NOTHING!

“Throws a passport a screen.”
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Fri 23 Mar 2018, 12:52, , Reply)
This is a normal post
The Liberal Democrats’ Brexit spokesman, Tom Brake, said: “The blue passport saga is turning into a farce. First it was established that we did not have to leave the EU to have blue passports. Now we learn that the passports will be printed by a foreign company. And to add insult to injury, we will pay over the odds for them because the value of the pound has fallen since Brexit and they will have to be imported.”
 (theswollenbeef where there's a will there's a wank, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 13:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post blue passports tho

(benito vaselini no not that one, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 14:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post I'll do it for £5m
I've got a laminator and everything
 (theswollenbeef where there's a will there's a wank, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 14:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haha what did you expect?
Currency devaluation and capitalism.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 22 Mar 2018, 14:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post David Schneider nailed this one.
"On passports, I still think the best idea is to let people choose their own colour:

Maroon passport = you can continue to travel freely, work and live across the EU.
Blue passport = you can’t do any of that but you have a blue passport.

Everyone’s happy!"
 (I helped save b3ta! DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 14:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Blue please, David

(I helped save b3ta! The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 20:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post hahaha

(benito vaselini no not that one, Fri 23 Mar 2018, 9:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post But Benny and Dinny told us Brexit would mean we'd be isolated isolationists.
What's this? International free trade saving taxpayers money despite Brexit? Do your little brains hurt Benny & Dinny? Still, something to whinge about, eh?
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 14:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post The pound is worth less now.

(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 22 Mar 2018, 14:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post Last summer the pound was at its lowest level since...
2009.

Back in the halcyon days when Brexit was inconceivable, the pound was where it was last summer.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post A year after the banking fiasco.
Over 5 years later, it dropped in the first quarter 2016 and has been ever since.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post We haven’t left yet.
These money savings were obtained by using our current rights as EU members to access to the common market.

Just to point out the bleeding obvious.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post This contract is set to run well after we leave.
Sent from my Chinese manufactured Korean phone I bought in the EU. It was very tough to get hold of, and super rare because it's prohibitively expensive. I'll never know how they accessed the Holy Grail that is the Single Market.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post £120 million saved and 70 uk jobs created.
Hard to argue against it.

This whole story is in the news because of the boss of De La Rue is throwing a massive hissy fit.

Either his firm is way less productive than the Franco-Dutch one or he thought the government would be forced to use his and bloated the bid. It's even worse given the devaluation of the pound against the euro.

Sounds like he was playing silly buggers and got burnt.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post People begun ditching De La Rue some time ago.
I forget the details, but I'm sure I read a piece (in the Investors' Chronicle?) saying bin the stock ages ago.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 15:36, , Reply)
This is a normal post you must be the only simpleton left who thinks this whole shitstorm is saving us money
Taxpayers are billions down because of your ridiculous nostalgia
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 16:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post apologies, I've just read Cerebus's attempt
Clearly not the only simpleton
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 16:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post You're not even a simpleton, you're just parroting other people's propaganda. You don't actually think for yourself.
The only nostalgia I can see is yours for the autocratic and sclerotic EU.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 17:40, , Reply)
This is a normal post doubleplusgood

(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 19:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Just sayin'
But De La Rue doesn't sound very British in the first place.

Bloody foreigners coming over here...
 (I helped save b3ta! Nun The Wiser : My middle name's still RIS, Thu 22 Mar 2018, 20:59, , Reply)