Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Britain is preparing to rip up centuries-old rules by introducing passports which do not contain details of the holder's sex.
The move, following pressure from the Lib Dems, is designed to spare transgender people and those who have both male and female sexual organs from having to tick 'male' or 'female' on their travel papers.
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But with the Lib Dems promising to be 'fierce champions of equality', the Home Office has begun a consultation on changing the rules.
To satisfy international laws, the passport would still list a category titled 'sex', but would then contain a simple 'X' for everybody.
Some Home Office officials are concerned the change could make life harder for the already stretched UK Border Agency by giving them one fewer piece of information to work from
from the Mail online
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Is this one of them tall stories from the Daily Mail, who at the moment are wielding a big stick in the general direction of the Libdems about everything and anything...not that anyone is too worried about the Libdems getting a sticking. But if we take our sex off the passport it would lead to confusion, Im already confused about sex as it is ...lol!
But the Libdems do get themselves into a mess, currently they are trying to say all the right populist things on tax and on curbing top executive pay for example, clearly in an effort to improve their standing... but nobody is listening. Their poll rating is still bottoming out.
Dont mention Tuition Fees.
PS: yours truly has an Irish passport and we dont concern ourselves with sex or anything like that, being catholics, but we always have directions to the nearest pub...lol!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Would it not solve all these problems to have;Blue for a boy, Pink for a girl and Beige for Lib-Dem supporters?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Nutty, plain nutty - not exactly something you would see being proposed by a Tory so the Mail must be right. Got to keep the LDs happy with the odd titbit of such nonsense.
Being a EU citizen you can travel across Europe without a passport and without being stopped at borders. This from the EU Parliament. Travel for shopping, leisure or business from one country to another will be cheap because there is no money exchange and no commission paid. So basically any EU citizen can live ,work and retire in any EU member state if they wish so.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes indeed Alan, I saw a programme on TV last week featuring the lives of the 20,000 Brits living in the Dordogne..yes 20,000..jeez its turning into Berkshire. One English couple are selling fish n chips from a touring van to the hording English settlers. Wonder how the French locals feel about the English coming in pushing up the house prices!!
Keith Sansum1
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and part of a cio olition govt lol
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Effectively if you are a British citizen you have to carry a passport as we have no national ID document other than that.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Keith I do not understand that one. I am a member of CAMRA and that's about all. If you call that a club.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Many years ago when I was working in Manchester I had the job of conducting first interviews of girls applying for a copy typist's job. One quite dim young lady had obviously filled in her application with some difficulty and in the Sex box she had written Yes. What's that? I asked, foolishly. She burst into floods of tears and said Well it was just the once and we are engaged!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon
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an id card along with a passport could be issued at the same time.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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don't see the point of that brian, also the costs would be prohibitive.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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howard,there is a point to it,but as for the overall cost could be kept to a minimum say £100 or less.and seeing the cost of a passport is grossly overprised anyway,the id card should be included in that price.
