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Old May 1, 2010, 9:18 pm
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HIDDY
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Originally Posted by Wexflyer
The above replies don't seem to reflect the realities of modern Britain. The police are now empowered to stop you and demand "Ihre Papiere, mein Herr!!" at any moment. Just one example:
"Five Tory front bench MPs, including Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, were among travellers ordered to show their passports when they arrived at Prestwick Airport on Wednesday" - but then as the "domestic," flight was actually to Scotland, perhaps it was treated as international?
See
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...passports.html
Och aye, the bobby had every right to see their passports.........if they were English they were certainly foreigners.
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