It's been a pretty bad stretch of press for our counterparts at the British passport and airport offices. First, they faced a backlog of applications so ginormous there were high profile Parliamentary charges, apologies and investigations.
The initial findings
This was followed by a series of stories of people who mistakenly grabbed and used someone else's passport, and went on to be totally not chill about it
The internet reacted with its usual objectivity
So what do you do when you're faced with such bad publicity? You go on strike of course!
Which went over well
To this point, I had some empathy for the passport and airport workers -- heaven knows it can be a hard and thankless job. However, recent incidents left me more conflicted...on a very personal level
Good thing I didn't include the LLDD-baby's "Ma. Leia Organa" second name in her British birth certificate
I needed to consult "certain" foreign office colleagues on such a landmark issue. The consensus: as much as we would like to support the rebellion and its travel plans, as civil servants we are duty bound to follow the express provisions of the passport law, i.e., "in case of a discrepancy between the applicant's name in the birth certificate and in any other private documents, the former shall prevail over the latter..."
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