@plumbjulie74 @JeremyVineOn5 It depends on how long it takes to issue a passport, which depends on the time of year and whether it is a first passport or a renewal; and whether people even realize that they can renew it up to 9 months before expiry.
@plumbjulie74 @JeremyVineOn5 The passport office have statistics to do better. We can only guess at how many people renew up to 9 months before 3 months before expiry, and how many of those don't realize and get caught out. Maybe another 10% or so try to book or travel and find it expired. We did once.
@plumbjulie74 @JeremyVineOn5 You now need at least 3 months passport validity (recommended 6 months), before the *expiry date* is up, *and* before 10 years *since issued* are up, carefully calculated for each individual family member.
Up to around 10% of "unexpired" UK passports risk not being accepted.
@plumbjulie74 @JeremyVineOn5 If you are tone deaf, think cheese is just sour milk, your passports were not renewed more than about 9 years ago, and you don't need health care or a phone or a sterling credit card or an extended stay...
@plumbjulie74 @JeremyVineOn5 It's not just having to use the slower "all passports" queue.
Pets, dairy, health cover, work visa, residence permit, passport expiry dates, musicians on tour, roaming, UK credit card with foreign address, all used to "just work" before Brexit.
@alexbuckland96@VessOnSecurity@SwiftOnSecurity I have a machine that runs fine with %SystemRoot% set to F:\Windows, the only files it has on C:\ were a result of installing a printer driver from a company who should have known better.
@BrugesGroup It was a predictable and inevitable result of our Brexiteer government stupidly taking us out of the EU. The UK will be undivided again when we rejoin the Single Market. Most of the border checks will disappear when we join Schengen.
@BrugesGroup@BrugesGroup handing out advice late in the evening to risk checking your ceiling smoke alarm when it is dark and you are tired and the emergency services are busy.
@BrugesGroup@BrugesGroup handing out advice to check your smoke alarm on the one day in the year when there is 4% less chance of a fire than any other day.