British passports

[Des Parrot]

Just returned from Poland for a couple of days … walk up to the E Gate armed with my brand new shiny blue British passport.

Gets rejected.. go to desk. WTF. Man on desk tells men the E Gates are not set up for the new British passport. FFS. Yet another incompetent Brexit linked failing.

[Hilts]

Just returned from Poland for a couple of days … walk up to the E Gate armed with my brand new shiny blue British passport.

Gets rejected.. go to desk. WTF. Man on desk tells men the E Gates are not set up for the new British passport. FFS. Yet another incompetent Brexit linked failing.

Yeah but its blue.

Thats far more important.

[The Lone Gunman]

....walk up to the E Gate armed with my brand new shiny blue British passport.

Where's E gate?

[The Bloop]

Just returned from Poland for a couple of days … walk up to the E Gate armed with my brand new shiny blue British passport.

Gets rejected.. go to desk. WTF. Man on desk tells men the E Gates are not set up for the new British passport. FFS. Yet another incompetent Brexit linked failing.

He scored a great hatrick for Ipswich at NP in the FA Cup many years ago.

[lardy]

Where's E gate?

Probably at the airport.

[life on mars]

I came back from Spain and flew right through , ended up in the sea ??

[JamesWales]

No one should have to go through this kind of pain and suffering.

[NYCBlue]

When were passports ever blue anyway? My old passport was black.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

When were passports ever blue anyway? My old passport was black.

"Craig Burston, senior lecturer in graphic design at the London College of Communication, which incorporates what was the London College of Printing, says there is nothing to suggest the "dominant colour" of the new passport is blue.
But if it is blue, "it must be the most apologetic shade of blue they could find" because "it's as black as blue gets".

"The Home Office would not specify the shade of this blue, although a spokesman said it was close to, if not exactly, a blue numbered as 5395C in the Pantone classification."

[Jimmy the Jock]

"Craig Burston, senior lecturer in graphic design at the London College of Communication, which incorporates what was the London College of Printing, says there is nothing to suggest the "dominant colour" of the new passport is blue.
But if it is blue, "it must be the most apologetic shade of blue they could find" because "it's as black as blue gets".

"The Home Office would not specify the shade of this blue, although a spokesman said it was close to, if not exactly, a blue numbered as 5395C in the Pantone classification."

Fascinating.

[IanD]

Get ready to cough up for the EU visa waiver, too.

https://www.etiasvisa.com/

[Croesy Blue]

"Craig Burston, senior lecturer in graphic design at the London College of Communication, which incorporates what was the London College of Printing, says there is nothing to suggest the "dominant colour" of the new passport is blue.
But if it is blue, "it must be the most apologetic shade of blue they could find" because "it's as black as blue gets".

"The Home Office would not specify the shade of this blue, although a spokesman said it was close to, if not exactly, a blue numbered as 5395C in the Pantone classification."

Same problem as with Priest’s socks

https://youtu.be/wx8-mysJG2s

[poc]

When were passports ever blue anyway? My old passport was black.

my new one is black also

[The Lone Gunman]

Where's E gate?

Probably at the airport.

I was hoping it could be narrowed down a bit.

[bobh]

Where's E gate?

Probably at the airport.

I was hoping it could be narrowed down a bit.

In between D Gate and F Gate

[Doucas]

Just returned from Poland for a couple of days … walk up to the E Gate armed with my brand new shiny blue British passport.

Gets rejected.. go to desk. WTF. Man on desk tells men the E Gates are not set up for the new British passport. FFS. Yet another incompetent Brexit linked failing.

'NOtHiNg tO dO wItH bReXiT'

[lardy]

I was hoping it could be narrowed down a bit.

Good idea.

Des. Where is E gate?

[MOZZER2]

Good idea.

Des. Where is E gate?

probably next to D gate

[light up the darkness]

I was hoping it could be narrowed down a bit.

As you enter the border control hall where the guards of said border check your passport it’s first on the left before you get to the queues

There’s usually a nice lady pointing you in the right direction so that you can move away from the common herd.

On a regular basis they don’t function as expected so you soon get redirected to the queuing hoi poloi

The other thing I’ve occasionally noticed when the queues are huge and families with children are escorted to the front area is that the ‘family’ often has an increase in numbers as loiterers tag in behind and get a ride to the front.

[JamesWales]

E's a gate, e's a gate. E's ebeneezer gate.

[light up the darkness]

Good idea.

Des. Where is E gate?

E for electronic

[Des Parrot]

Good idea.

Des. Where is E gate?

In every major airport in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPassport_gates

I always use them as there are normally zero queues. Seems the, ones at Heathrow have not been set up for new British passports, despite having up to 6 years to do so!

[lardy]

There we go, gunman. Mystery solved


Turns out it was in the airport after all.

[willo1927]

In every major airport in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPassport_gates

I always use them as there are normally zero queues. Seems the, ones at Heathrow have not been set up for new British passports, despite having up to 6 years to do so!

So why are you mentioning Brexit when it was the airports fault?

[Rjk]

So why are you mentioning Brexit when it was the airports fault?

if there wasn't brexit then there also wouldn't have been this problem