THE EU has trolled Britain on April Fool’s Day with a joke about the fascination with blue passports.
Following Brexit, Theresa May revealed Britain would return to having blue passports, which were last used in 1988.
Now, the EU has poked fun at Britain’s obsession over the switch to blue passports, due next year.
The UK office of the European Parliament tweeted to say they were following Britain’s lead and all new EU passports would be the same colour of blue as the new British one.
BREAKING: All EU passports to become dark blue https://t.co/C6g8kEQx5d pic.twitter.com/xIadOfDSPn
— Europarl UK (@EPinUK) April 1, 2018
The move away from the burgundy-coloured European passports is entirely symbolic.
In fact, Britain was never under any obligation to change them from blue to burgundy in the first place.
And in another twist, the government awarded the £490million contract to produce the new passports to a Franco-Dutch firm instead of the current British company.
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The European Parliament weren’t the only ones joining in the April Fool’s Day fun.
Dublin Live reported that the Pope had done a Garth Brooks and cancelled his proposed visit to the city.
Shocking!! https://t.co/a3BRllC18N
— DublinLive (@DublinLive) April 1, 2018
Reminiscent of the fiasco involving the country singer, it said the Vatican could not come to an arrangement with local residents, while the pontiff wanted to do more masses than was permitted.
Burger King meanwhile mirrored The Irish Post’s choctato story with the announcement of a chocolate Whopper.
the NEW chocolate Whopper. coming soon to your local Burger King. maybe. pic.twitter.com/9N1snyYhRX
— Burger King (@BurgerKing) March 30, 2018
Staying on the food theme, the Belfast Telegraph reported that crisp maker Tayto had released a chocolate egg with a cheese and onion flavoured cream filling.
Tayto launch new crisp-infused Dream Egg https://t.co/RmEp6fNaXm pic.twitter.com/TnmiNQojYn
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) April 1, 2018
While we joked that Ireland had been invited to this summer’s World Cup in place of England, RugbyLad wrote that Ireland would host the 2023 rugby equivalent after France was stripped of the responsibility for being ‘a pack of gowls’.
(Image: Getty)Meanwhile Heatworld claimed Liam Gallagher was giving up the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle to take part in Strictly Come Dancing.
One that was fooling no one though was RTÉ weather presenter Joanna Donnelly, who tweeted to say Ireland would enjoy a long, hot summer.
So after a hard day at the office I can happily forecast a long hot summer on the charts as the jet stream gets set to head north while taking on a distinctly omega shape. Happy Easter! #forecast #weather #heatwave pic.twitter.com/NiZcopguHs
— Joanna Donnelly (@JoannaDonnellyL) April 1, 2018
More chance of seeing Liam Gallagher in a leotard than that happeing.
