On Brexit passports

Yesterday it was announced the "new" blue UK passports would be made in France after the usual UK company failed to win the tender.

This has made a lot of Brexiteers and the Daily Mail angry, so this must be a good thing?

Well, public tenders come under WTO rules, so this had to be done, especially as those Brexiteers seem jolly keen on those WTO rules; could it be they don't really know what they're talking about? Heavens forbid. Anyway, the Frech bidder was either cheaper or better quality. Or both. That's the free market?

Unless all those Brexiteers who champion "Global Britain" only think that should apply when it favours UK, otherwise it is protectionist Little England?

It is funny, or would be if there were not so much at stake, seeing these Brexiteers and their backers finding out about global trade and its rules in real time, whilst driving the UK economy towards a cliff edge in the event no deal can be reached with the EU, or one of the EU27 or a dozen or so assemblies fail to ratify. I mean, that would never happen, would it? Oh year, but it did to the Canadian FTA, and there was no time constraint on that.

Meanwhile, DD and his department are posting tweets and videos trumpeting the deal reached, without admitting this is only because all movement and concessions has come from the UK, the EU has not budged an inch. We will get a trade deal, probably, but it will be on the EU's terms, as it was always going to be.