Brexiteers love to fantasise about self-reliance and unleashing the potential of British creativity that was somehow suppressed by the dead hand of the EU and its paralytic commitment to harnessing the power of the free market to drive innovation.
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As long as we’re posting insane Express ramblings:
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I hear the bootstrap factory is hiring. Maybe they can get a job there when the economy collapses?
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Dibbler is inconsolable.
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Ah, but BrexitBritain cannot rest easy… those dastardly foreigners are scheming to beat Britain to the goal:
But Britain is not the only country going at it.
The EU and its international partners, including the UK, are working on the ITER Tokamak in southern France.
So, despite our break for freedom, those foul Frogs are still conspiring to benefit from our British knowhow.
/s obviously.
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The UK can now become the new capital of paranoid suppressed-technology podcasts?
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Weren’t the blue passports made in France, too?
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Britain has a proud tradition of outsourcing its creativity.
As has everywhere else by the way. Immigration and cooperation are fucking brilliant.
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By a French company in Poland, IIRC.
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And the colour change to Red wasn’t even mandated by the EU anyway. EU countries can (and do)have very dark blue passports, but accuracy doesn’t really count for much in the minds of the Brexit obsessives.
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Well, we all know what the Milk Marketing Board was really up to, don’t we…
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Correct. Adding just another layer of insanity.
Especially considering every old British passport I have ever seen (my family tree has a British, well, rather twig than branch) was so very, very dark blue that they always looked black to me. But then again, what does Johnnie Foreigner know about proper colours, right?
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I’m not exactly young (41) i’ve yet to see a blue(/black) passport in person…
Quite why such a thing matters just baffles me (even ignoring the fact we could have had that colour anytime in the EU anyways…)
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9 electrons by my count, that makes it Fluorine … so solving both the corrosion problems and the wild engineering of fusion that far into the periodic table with their “Spherical Tokamak”… so… not a Tokamak, for the low low price of £222 million. /s 
At least when you read old Soviet propaganda you knew that they knew what they were trying to do when they wrote it.
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My dad had one, but he was an engineer on container ships so he spent most of the year out of the UK.
And it always looked black to me, no matter what the lighting was like.
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To be fair that programme is obviously useless and is just a media stunt. Any Nobel prize winner is going to get a visa when they are headhunted. Not like they’d be arsed applying speculatively
On the other hand, don’t you think he’s looking a little tired?
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