Wow, who could have possibly foreseen that saying a big "fuck you" to our largest trading partners could have possibly resulted in unfavourable trading conditions for the smaller party... Not me that's for sure... But at least we all get blue passports.
1. We could have had blue passports without Brexit.
2. Many of these unfavourable conditions on UK firms and UK citizens are imposed by the UK government itself.
It's not a simple case of the larger trading partner giving the smaller one unfavourable terms. In this case, the smaller partner chose to impose hardships on its own firms and people, while the larger partner was willing to offer more benefits so long as they were mutual.
For example, those UK musicians who can't tour the EU any more. That's a UK decision. The EU was willing to allow that touring as long as EU musicians could tour in the UK on similar terms. But the UK declined. That's why there are petitions about it, because if the UK changed position on that, the EU would probably accept.
My parents have British passports issued in the early ‘80s (expired, obviously, with the corner cut), and those passports are black, quite plainly and obviously.
The new blue colour sometimes being issued is completely unrelated to passports issued before the standard red EU ones (and is indeed closer to the currently-issued EU Croatian blue passports).
