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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?
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British passport are you serious , burn the cnut of a thing , get a Polish one , :)
£77.50, half your luck. Aussie one's are about $300.
Who gets all your tax and supplies all your services? Pixies?
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,Quote:
Originally Posted by davearn
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 !
That's a bit extreme mate!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by steve down under
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Yes far too extreme.
Get yourself nationalised, then the tax payers can pay for it
The money goes toward to funding UK embassies abroad . I remember reading it whilst applying for a passport .Quote:
Originally Posted by capello