On the face of it, it does look stupid. Then you look behind the headlines and hear their management say that up to 200 people could lose their jobs.xmiles wrote:wanderlust wrote:Hilarious! The new (old style blue) British passports which will be issued after Brexit will be manufactured in France.
Couldn't make it up
Have a look at the headline on today's Daily Mail for another laugh. Even by their barking mad standards it is a classic! They are outraged that we are not spending £100-200m extra by giving the contract to a British firm.
What makes me wonder is that the British company is call 'De la Rue'. (does it not also have French connections somewhere down the line, I wonder?)