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    You’re a British citizen, you pay upwards of £77.50 for your passport, it has a valid picture of you in it – so it’s yours, right? Well, maybe. According to the text on the leaflet it belongs to Her Majesty’s Government. But in 1955, Earl Jowitt, a former solicitor-general and attorney-general, pointed out that ‘the Government’ couldn’t own anything because there is no such legal entity. No one since has been able to clarify the matter. So who gets the £77.50?



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    British passport are you serious , burn the cnut of a thing , get a Polish one ,

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    £77.50, half your luck. Aussie one's are about $300.

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    Who gets all your tax and supplies all your services? Pixies?

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    Quote Originally Posted by davearn View Post
    £77.50, half your luck. Aussie one's are about $300.
    the Aussie gov has to take 77.50 out to give it to the Queen of England, the rest its theirs, but you are right it still sounds expensive,

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    A british passport might only be 77 quid if renewed in Britain but when you are an expat like myself living in Australia it costs a fuckin load more than that and involves a lot of fuckin about to get it ,thats why I'm gonna get myself neutralized before my brit one expires next yr !

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    Quote Originally Posted by steve down under
    I'm gonna get myself neutralized before my brit one expires next
    That's a bit extreme mate!

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    Yes far too extreme.
    Get yourself nationalised, then the tax payers can pay for it

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    Quote Originally Posted by capello View Post
    Pricey passports
    You’re a British citizen, you pay upwards of £77.50 for your passport, it has a valid picture of you in it – so it’s yours, right? Well, maybe. According to the text on the leaflet it belongs to Her Majesty’s Government. But in 1955, Earl Jowitt, a former solicitor-general and attorney-general, pointed out that ‘the Government’ couldn’t own anything because there is no such legal entity. No one since has been able to clarify the matter. So who gets the £77.50?


    The money goes toward to funding UK embassies abroad . I remember reading it whilst applying for a passport .

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