British Bureaucracy (Love it)

[Oblickta]

My partner is on a flight right now to join up with family to celebrate my daughters wedding this Friday in Rhodes. I cant go cos my passport is dirty!!

It's dirty cos I've worked abroad where you need to have it with you all the time for ID purposes. I've travelled globally with the same passport including many "entries into the UK"!!

The goverment agencys have access to each others data these days and the police have DNA and Fingerprint databases but it still takes several days to ID a person in the digital age? I have 40 years experience in paying taxes to this country so how don't they know who I am?

Revolution is the solution, Let's go for it

[mark]

Revolution is the solution, Let's go for it

bring it on!

passports are mad, to prove you are british and therefore entitled to one you have to get pictures signed by your doctor, who, in a recent study by the national audit office, in 40% of the cases are non british nationals who have been in the country less than three years and in many case don't hold full british nationality themselves!

how mad is that!

[Oblickta]

aye Mark, "mad" is a good way to describe it. Anyone can walk in and say "allah is my passport" and be granted entry (I've seen it at Dover). Just cost me 2k to try and get out FFS and I'm still here

not happy but bushmills is making it better and I just scored for £250 by not needing the doggy sitter, pity I wont be on me baba's wedding photos

[Marc]

Apparently I can also sign passports........ ME for fecks sake, must be mad

Bit crap missing your daughters wedding though, can you not get one tomorrow from Durham?

[Oblickta]

na cos me passport is damaged and "could" have been tampered with so it would take 5 days

A damaged passport is any passport that isn't in pristene condition! Wear and tear is classed as damage but there are no parameters:

"‘DAMAGED’could be any passport that is not in pristine condition. The most common example of a damaged passport is where the laminate on the corners of the passport is only slightly curled or letting go. Another example is where a passport has got wet. Many passports have some form of wear and tear considered as ‘damage’ by the passport office. "

Take care and check if you're traveling soon

[Marc]

I'm sure they could have it resolved in minutes if they wanted to, you tried appealing on their better nature and explain the circumstances......... hang on I'm talking **** now, sorry mate told you I'm mad.

Check your Pm's

[Oblickta]

Thanks again. I tried my best but the jobsworths just nodded.

I'm not bitter or mad, just confused when I can be ID'd by the police in seconds by state of the art technology

It beggers belief

Anyhows I have a week spare for fishing

Always look on the bright side of life, da da da da da da

[Oblickta]

erm how long do you cook pizza for when you take the box off it?

[The Great Wallsendo]

erm how long do you cook pizza for when you take the box off it?

Just leave it in the box and soak the cardboard in water before throwing on a hot BBQ...I saw Hugh Fearnly Whittingchop cook a fish that way once...I'm sure the theory is the same

[Charlton]

seems a canny way to get more money out of us, sorry sir your passports damaged, that will be £££'s don't know how much it is now