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Sir, I have spent a long time trying to understand the so-called advantages of having a BN (O) passport.
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I hope that a lot of BDTCs will apply for the new BN (0) passports as soon as they are introduced in 1987; and I pray that one day in the not so distant future immigration officers all over the world will become accustomed to the BN (0) passport. But in all honesty, I really cannot recommend it to the people of Hong Kong now, unless its designer were to make it much more attractive - not just by changing its colour to Burgundy, but by endorsing on it a statement that the holder has automatic permission to enter the United Kingdom, or words to that effect, as suggested by my honourable colleague Mr John Swaine.
Sir, the present package is not good enough. Let the British government improve on it before asking the people of Hong Kong to accept it.
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