Britain's Blue Passports: Everything You Need to Know

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In March the UK is set to start rolling out their new blue passports. These new design passports hark back to 1921 blue passports Britain held until the 80s when the colour changed to burgundy to unify with other EU nations. In this video we tell you all you need to know about the new blue passports and answer your questions from Instagram.
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@aibh7903 4 жыл бұрын

“Everything you need to know about the new blue passports” 1. They’re blue

@tacticalrobloxiansunited7441 4 жыл бұрын

Jewels Star Are you actually- there’s no less freedom smh literally all that is different is the design, that’s it.

@yoney7555 4 жыл бұрын

Passport is passport. Whatever the colour of the passport. Whatever the design of the passport. Passport is just a travel document.

@obscureinception8302 4 жыл бұрын

@@VentureHolly *Jewels Star* is correct, you are not. Anyone who needs a visa to travel _in addition to their passport_ has less freedom to travel than someone who does not require a visa of any sort. Currently it is though likely that, from January 2021, British passport holders will be able to travel in the Schengen Zone _without_ a visa for up to 90 days in any 180 day period. EU passport holders are free to travel in the Schengen Zone (and Ireland) for 365/6 days in any calendar year. If you need to get a visa you are not as free to travel as someone who doesn't require one - because _all_ visas come with restrictions.

@cardboardbox191 4 жыл бұрын

How so by the sound of things it will continue to ask on behalf of the queen (though she's probably asking for the government) that you be allowed through and the answer will depend on the politics and probably finance (do they really want to tell that many english tourist to go do one for example).

@obscureinception8302 4 жыл бұрын

@@cardboardbox191 The queen has nothing to do with it, and ordinary tourist travel from the UK to the EU are unlikely to be affected because there will almost certainly be an agreement that allows visa free travel for tourists travelling for only a few weeks. The people who will be affected will be those who want to travel for extended periods (e.g. students traveling on a gap year, people travelling after retiring, etc.) and anyone who would like to move to a country in Europe to work or too live when they retire. Last year a British passport was all that any of these people needed. In future they will need to apply for visas/work permits, and meet whatever requirements might be set, in addition to having a British passport. It really isn't difficult to understand that the British passport no longer allows the same freedom to travel as it did while the UK was a member of the EU.

@conorstapleton3183 4 жыл бұрын

Everything you need to know about the new Passport. -It is blue. -There are less countries you can travel to, visa-free.

@Puter4472 4 жыл бұрын

Which countries

@tessjuel 4 жыл бұрын

- It's designed in France and made in Poland

@PreZeRKa 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 Which one?

@mrwideboy 4 жыл бұрын

@@PreZeRKa at this rate we will be needing visa to travel to germany france spain Italy etc . Not that you care because you dont have the intelligence to travel

@PreZeRKa 4 жыл бұрын

mrwideboy We can travel to 174 countries visa free. Why is that going to change? We’re not even part of Schengen 😂

@am4kar 4 жыл бұрын

“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries…” 🤣🤣🤣

@goodyking6732 4 жыл бұрын

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

@realhawaii5o 4 жыл бұрын

And I bet you don't know the average air speed of an unladen swallow.

@davidjones2133 4 жыл бұрын

please please please please can we have that on the final passports? Would be worth having a blue one for that and no other reason

@SolarMechanic 4 жыл бұрын

@@realhawaii5o That's going to be the new Immigration Test. Get it wrong and you're catapulted across the Channel.

@riyadhul-hoque6851 4 жыл бұрын

Wat

@mrgreen027 4 жыл бұрын

It should be red. In all my strategy games The UK has the red colour. France the blue, Spain yellow, Italy green and germany black.

@daveymorton5270 3 жыл бұрын

Hoi4?

@themollyrhubarb 3 жыл бұрын

But it's new and beautiful

@johnprice7507 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah half expecting there to be an eagle stamped on it with that black and gold colouring

@award3007 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, it was always Navy Blue untill we joined the EU and was forced to chane it to Burgundy, and to celebrate us leaving we did a little nostalgic trip and changed it back!

@award3007 3 жыл бұрын

@@themollyrhubarb And dont forget Bloo!

@albertoa.r.5886 4 жыл бұрын

It's environmentally friendly because it discourages travel. Can you buy a cover with the Elderberries moto? 🤣

@sirBrouwer 4 жыл бұрын

only if they get delivered by a swallow.

@gabrielboisvert7306 4 жыл бұрын

@@sirBrouwer African or European?

@sirBrouwer 4 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielboisvert7306 European. African swallows do not migrate.

@flitsertheo 3 жыл бұрын

@@sirBrouwer They do if you can get them a passport.

@drd-hm6fc 3 жыл бұрын

-What have you gained from Brexit? -Well, the passport looks more patriotic now. That's real sovereignty! -Oh... Yeah, nice

@BreezeBoo Ай бұрын

Right? 😂

@pieter1102 4 жыл бұрын

"Top notch security". Like my old Dutch one that has a poly-carbonate data page and all the security features you can shake a stick at. The only reason the red UK passport wasn't top notch is because the UK government never wanted to follow everyone else that got the latest and best from Thales. because nothing good can come from Europe, until it does.

@gentleben4770 4 жыл бұрын

I love the data page in my current Dutch one. It makes opening it to the correct page so quick and easy by feel compared to the UK one

@dittikke 4 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, but the new blue passport has a unique security feature no other European passport has - built in obsolescence. And utter uselessness.

@pieter1102 4 жыл бұрын

@@dittikke True. And let's not forget that it has that unique traditional blue cover, just like the old black one.

@Tom-vy3cb 4 жыл бұрын

I am.pleased it's changed to blue

@pieter1102 3 жыл бұрын

@@elyrexo Like many of the free nations in Europe, the Dutch have signed up to be part of a Union. There are many advantages like free trade, freedom to travel, freedom to work and live anywhere in the Union, and many more. There are some disadvantages such as sticking to common standards. Which by the way, is the only way you can get those advantages. If the biggest issue would be the colour of my passport, I'll happily trade that in for the freedom to travel, never mind the other advantages.

@sarowie 4 жыл бұрын

why blue, when the "good old passport" was blue to the point of beeing deep dark blue - a color also known as black?

@Mira_linn 4 жыл бұрын

So are the New Ones the Blue pictures are just an illustration as far as I can understand or maybe something that happenes when put in a photocopier.. point being the new ones are just as black as the old atleast for my mind

@peterforden5917 4 жыл бұрын

mine i navy blue----must get another one before I have to get it in Taiwan :(

@russcattell955i 4 жыл бұрын

But blue with gold script is so English, wait isn't that the colours of the EU Flag ?

@user-ky6vw5up9m 4 жыл бұрын

Yes it was very dark indeed

@madgoat2692 3 жыл бұрын

I like the design

@arkadeepkundu4729 4 жыл бұрын

The blue colour: *Iconic* The unicorn on it: *Ironic*

@1Anime4you 4 жыл бұрын

@Cardinal Sin But only if you also got the lion, show it.

@SpiritEngine 4 жыл бұрын

@Dean Clark We'll have not one, but two unicorns! It's going to be one kickass passport!

@dean1039 4 жыл бұрын

@Cardinal Sin Yes, British people couldn't travel outside of the UK before it joined the EU...

@razeharry 4 жыл бұрын

When can I get blue passport ..what is release date ?

@davrojohnson1156 3 жыл бұрын

@@razeharry March 2021 but longer if your expiry is longer

@edacheb 4 жыл бұрын

Love the Monty Python reference on the new design. I hope they keep it!

@thatnorwegianguy1986 3 жыл бұрын

Its even funnier given that a french company made the passports

@Cjnw 8 ай бұрын

@@thatnorwegianguy1986Kanigghits!

@throughthewoods416 4 жыл бұрын

For me, this sums up the Brexit standpoint more generally - flimsy, nostalgic, based on feelings rather than evidence, and doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.

@ThePereubu1710 4 жыл бұрын

Can anyone point me at the EU law that stopped UK passports being more secure and environmentally friendly before this?

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

@Jewels Star is it any surprise the Brit's pulled the self destruct button. They have fought wars (with themselves!!!!!) for centuries. When they got tired of this they fought with the world, then they finally came to their sense, by helping to liberate Europe. Now they're at it again. Trying to fight the world and themselves on two fronts. Madness.

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

@Jewels Star but it's not like the English to care about anyone but themselves. Unfortunately it's their history to drag others into it. TBH I don't worry for Ireland. The EU will not let this project go and will defend it. They will do everything that's possible to protect the most vulnerable states out of this. The flight of capital from the UK is landing in Dublin Luxembourg and Frankfurt. So don't worry. 😉

@louisbeerreviews8964 4 жыл бұрын

ThePereubu1710 no

@andrewcummings7832 4 жыл бұрын

It made in Poland (“face palm”), by a french company (“double face palm”), to represent British patriotism (“TKO level face palm”)

@673497 4 жыл бұрын

TAKE THAT SOVEREIGNTY/PATRIOTISM!

@billgowland3250 4 жыл бұрын

The contract is paid by British tax payers Giving the contract to an EU owned company cost 168 jobs in Gateshead Estimates agree the new passport will cost 20 to 25% more than the current one If this is an example of Boris's wonderful trade deals God help us one and all

@antonmunnik3315 4 жыл бұрын

The UK didn't "give" the contract to an EU company. The UK company lost the tender because of EU competition laws.

@billgowland3250 4 жыл бұрын

@@antonmunnik3315 surely bozi modo Given he's self proclaimed status as supreme tyrant Could have stopped it

@StevioGaming1 4 жыл бұрын

@@billgowland3250 No he couldn't have. The contract was given by Theresa may before we left the EU and due to EU rules government contracts have to be given equal footing among EU companies, the same as the British companies. So now that we are out after the contract expires it will be given to a British company because we won't be bound by that EU competition law. Hope you understand, not many people are aware of this law you see 😊👍

@Vienna3080 4 жыл бұрын

Here’s the TLDR of the TLDR News: 1. It’s Blue 2. And it’s friendly for the environment because you can’t go anywhere with it

@thegrandmuftiofwakanda 4 жыл бұрын

2. Except everywhere you could before.

@johnseabrook1703 4 жыл бұрын

Where do you get your info from? BBCs Jackanory

@Andrew-yl7lm 4 жыл бұрын

Hes taking the piss out of this channel folks

@flyerh 3 жыл бұрын

I was issued the last blue/black British passport from the British Embassy in Dubai.I travelled for a number of years being the only person with one in the immigration queue, used to get quite a few comments.I also had an Iranian work visa in it which posed a few questions entering the USA.

@HenriZwols 4 жыл бұрын

2:55 a new design "with the floral emblems of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales" So a redesign is required in a few years? :P

@theWarrenat0r 4 жыл бұрын

@bbonner422 What makes you think that Northern Ireland will unite and what makes you think you're right?

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

@@theWarrenat0r have a look at the Irish general election, have a look at the NI assembly. Have a look at Bojo agreement with the EU and try and find out what the DUP said about him and the Tories. Then come back to us then. 😉

@jimparlett4099 4 жыл бұрын

I agree. 99.5% of economists think Brexit will make us all poorer, especially those who spend most of their income on food and daily living. When people find that Brexit has made their life harder, they'll want change, but the only substantial change possible to rectify the Brexit impacts will be either to seek closer ties with Europe (perhaps join EFTA) or, for Northern Ireland and Scotland, seek to leave the UK. After the Brexit fiasco, politicians will be wary of promoting a full "re-join EU" position for many years, so break up of the UK looks like the probable outcome.

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

@@jimparlett4099 I does look like that. However, if the UK softens it's stance on negotiations with the EU and Join up to a Swiss style agreement then I don't see any potential issues except for this whole thing to be a complete waste of money. While losing voting rights in the EU parliament. But the UK will survive and the economy will take a small hit in the short term, but will bounce back very quickly.

@SantiagoGeffen 3 жыл бұрын

@Rusty Shackleford You're totally right. The UK will dissolve in the next decade.

@wallyrupert 4 жыл бұрын

I had one of the original "classic" passports. I kept it as a memento after it expired and still have it. It is quite definitely black, not blue - not even dark blue, simply black. I preferred the burgundy one when I got it, purely and simply because it was pocket-sized. The old black one was always too big to be kept in a normal pocket. I don't particularly care what colour it is, but I would prefer it if they at least keep it pocket-sized.

@madmonkee6757 4 жыл бұрын

My American passport is so dark as to be basically black. I prefer to travel with my pretty, blue Israeli passport. (Since Greece won't give me a red one.)

@pieter1102 4 жыл бұрын

The old UK one was not just black and too large, also hardcover so it doesn't fit comfortably in any pocket.

@webchimp 4 жыл бұрын

It was more a dark indigo than just blue.

@AmbitiousLearnWithGeorge 4 жыл бұрын

large percentile of men are insensitive to the blue light frequency...so it's quite likely that you don't see the blue in that colour..ask your wife

@wallyrupert 4 жыл бұрын

@@AmbitiousLearnWithGeorge Interesting. I've not heard that before and shall look into it ..... or I may, as you suggest, ask my wife next time she's talking to me (if that ever happens lol).

@callumjohnston858 4 жыл бұрын

Damn. I actually liked the red ones.

@kainethecarr6003 4 жыл бұрын

really? i thought they were rather ugly

@gentlemanvontweed7147 4 жыл бұрын

Why? Red is the colour for communism. Perfect for the EUSSR.

@aibh7903 4 жыл бұрын

Gentleman von Tweed are you a poe

@ianhamilton3113 4 жыл бұрын

@@gentlemanvontweed7147 Don't tell the US Republican Party. Technically it's burgundy.

@Andy-xt3mh 4 жыл бұрын

But they don't have French taunting or them.

@araradmanougian6731 4 жыл бұрын

So basically, a bunch of old people felt nostalgic to the last time Britain was a major world power and so now everyone's passport has to change color.

@MrEmiosk 4 жыл бұрын

now that they succeeded they have to hammer home patriotism so that people will not question them when shit starts to collapse. Its propaganda in a way.

@therealrobertbirchall 3 жыл бұрын

I don't care what color my passport is I want freedom of movement across the 28 nations of the EU my EU passport gave me

@sheepDalton 4 жыл бұрын

I always feel the blue passport really sums up brexit for me. The iconic passport I had and you showed was basically black. People seem to me to nostalgic for a passport that never existed.

@stephenjon3502 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the blue passport now gives you more chance to spend your first day of your holiday in a queue at the airport. Every time you use it you can have a warm glow knowing that having such an iconic brexity passport helped put 260 brits on the jam roll. 👍

@jannegrey593 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sending jobs - Poland.

@obscureinception8302 4 жыл бұрын

Gotta do what we can to look after the Poles who are returning home because they feel that they've been made unwelcome in the UK!

@mishapurser7542 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, buddy. XD

@thecomebackking737 4 жыл бұрын

Obscure Inception Obscure Inception look , I did not vote leave to get the poles out especially the Poles are very Harding working people , I voted leave because the MEPs in the EU parliament and also because the EU parliament became politically motivated organizations! every country has the right to choose what is good for them ( democracy) no matter what the Brexit outcome is or will be . The EU politicians are milking countries . And plus no one ever voted to leave in order to get EU citizens deported , if you been living here without crime there is no way the poles or any other citizens to worry . You can stay and continue living by applying for the right documentation, citizens from outside the EU have to do it why not the EU citizens?

@mrman8541 3 жыл бұрын

We only did that because we were still bound to follow EU rules so we had to have it open to EU companies. IF they did it next year, we could have picked De La Rue for being British.

@DeanLawrence_ftw 4 жыл бұрын

I don't care at all what colour it is or where it's made. I care rather a lot that my passport will no longer let me live and work in 27 other countries.

@Boreasos 4 жыл бұрын

Your passport still let's you do that, until the end of the year. So if you want to make use of it now is the time.

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

@@dtotti good luck with that one 😂. Just like the EU are keeping British people on planes, because your govt are acting like spoilt children who didn't want to pay tax. Unfortunately British people are going to pay for the elite mistakes.

@CharlieBrown723 4 жыл бұрын

If you have some skill or intellect that 27 other countries find useful then you will be welcomed to live and work. That is the way it should be. But if you live in your mothers basement than you should stay there.

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

@@CharlieBrown723 do you not understand that the majority of people who move in Europe do so for work? It's not about discrimination of what a skill is and what it ain't. The UK are the most hypocrite nation I have ever seen when all your OAP move to Spain, France, Portugal and other countries. What fucking skills do they have!!?? Lounging around a fucking pool and been loud and obnoxious. Yeah they spend their pension money, for what????

@MrEmiosk 4 жыл бұрын

@@dtotti yes, because that has been the problem now is it? I guess you'd have trouble moving anywhere outside of your own district.

@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer 4 жыл бұрын

*01:17* That's not how you spell sovereignty.

@sparkymarky7504 4 жыл бұрын

ᴅᴇᴀʀ ᴍʀ. ɪꜱᴀɪᴀʜ ᴅᴇʀɪɴɢᴇʀ; makes perfect sense that TLDR wouldn’t be able to spell that particular word

@chrisdevine4848 4 жыл бұрын

@@sparkymarky7504 - lol. Meow!

@britamericaball2505 4 жыл бұрын

The Philippines passport is a burgundy red passport (like mine) and it is printed by the Central Bank and the National Printing Office and 100% made in the Philippines. And it's beautiful inside, a art from different landmarks in every 17 region of the Philippines and in every fold, the lines of the National Anthem are written.

@Whisperity 4 жыл бұрын

We always had both blue and red passports. Red was easier to get but only allowed to travel within the Soviet Union. You could sometimes get a blue passport, that was for true international (Western) travel.

@SolarMechanic 4 жыл бұрын

You forgot the best thing about these new passports; the extra 1-2 hour wait at customs they'll introduce for all British Nationals. If only my Irish Pasport weren't so burgundy.

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

@@dtotti I have, and surprisingly it was in Birmingham 😂 By the way that's due to the nature of where a flight is coming in from. If it's a flight from a EU/EEA destination to an EU/EEA destination then you won't see many non EU/EEA nationals on that flight. Thus the ques will be smaller. However from different parts of the world enjoy.

@AJ_real 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think Brits will have to queue coming to Ireland cos of the CTA, but to other EU countries, probably?

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

@@AJ_real I wouldn't be so sure tbh, the UK is creating it's own path and the EU is another. The relationship both will have will be separated in time as Ireland integrates more with the EU.

@panostriantaphillou766 4 жыл бұрын

Brown would be more representative of the situation.

@3seven5seven1nine9 4 жыл бұрын

Racists would argue brown befits the old situation as well

@troytrey 4 жыл бұрын

Panos Triantaphillou says the guy from a 3rd world country with mostly olive skinned people just lucky to be in the EU.

@denisoleary5302 3 жыл бұрын

Don't likre it? Leave

@tehorangerider 4 жыл бұрын

Why not just make it a different colour from red or blue, that way neither party is happy and everyone loses

@obscureinception8302 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone loses anyway.

@brinjoness3386 4 жыл бұрын

everyone gets a laugh when they hear it is made in Poland.

@okok72277 4 жыл бұрын

Purple passport

@redtianime6282 4 жыл бұрын

@@okok72277 Pink :))

@LeifNelandDk 4 жыл бұрын

So the design will have to be changed again soon when North Ireland leaves.

@Steven_Rowe 4 жыл бұрын

Let's stick to facts not fiction. You don't know what is happening in Northern Ireland and neither do I,or anyone else

@Marco-wz3ff 4 жыл бұрын

Everything you need to know: - it looks worse - u cant travel as freely - its made in poland by a french company - u need to pay for it anyways

@wayneronnie7402 4 жыл бұрын

can't travel as freely? what do you mean? what country will i not be able to visit?

@kingrobert1st 4 жыл бұрын

@@wayneronnie7402 Any EU countries for a start.

@Tom-vy3cb 3 жыл бұрын

You can travel just as freely as you could with the other one 😂

@slightlytwistedagain 4 жыл бұрын

I love the blue and sliver look of the passport you have in the video but it appears that's not what we're getting.

@judychurley6623 4 жыл бұрын

It wont say "Your Mother was a Hamster"?

@richard.featherstone 4 жыл бұрын

It's gold lettering for a start - even though it appears silver, which means that the shade of blue is incorrect. In the pictures I've seen with gold letters on the front it's the same colour as my final issue 1988 passport - black for the sake of argument, but there is a slight hint of blue, "midnight blue' perhaps. Lighting plays a huge part in how things appear, remember that photo of the dress that the room lighting and camera managed to change the colour of? Until we can see it photographed against a background of a known colour, maybe a union flag that can be corrected for white balance we can't judge the colour properly.

@DynamicalisBlue 4 жыл бұрын

I think the gold on red looks far better than gold on blue. It’s just a better colour combo, and ironically represents Britain more. Britain... red... Royal... gold.

@AD-kv9kj 4 жыл бұрын

Yea but the Tory party of conmen want their party's colour on the passports... even though they are made by a French company and not even manufactured in Britian either. The whole thing is a big facade, a show for utter morons. The economy is going to suffer big time too.

@stephenmurphy2212 3 жыл бұрын

White lettering on a lighter blue would look much better.

@Konzuug 4 жыл бұрын

What happens if Scotland leaves? Another passport change?

@johnparsons9620 4 жыл бұрын

They just change the passport from "Great Britain" to "Little Englander" with the byline 'The local passport for local people',

@gentlemanvontweed7147 4 жыл бұрын

If Scotland dares commit treason to the Crown, we'll have use for our army again.

@judychurley6623 4 жыл бұрын

When.

@molybdomancer195 4 жыл бұрын

@@gentlemanvontweed7147 the eighteenth century called: they'd like their attitude back

@givemeakidney 4 жыл бұрын

@@gentlemanvontweed7147🤣 Bring it on. We've got all the nukes sitting on the Clyde 😎.

@ragzaugustus 4 жыл бұрын

"MADE IN POLAND", ahahahaha. Also, I love how completely and utterly pointless the whole thing is.

@CKW10001 4 жыл бұрын

😂 a stupid 17 million people voting for this shite. When they never had it so good.

@thecomebackking737 4 жыл бұрын

CKW10001 the comment shows what kind of human you are , so the 17 million are stupid you are clever and smart ? Is that why are saying ? Thank God we are out and I live the new passport

@airstrip1836 4 жыл бұрын

The contract to supply the new passports was signed before the UK voted to leave the EU. A new design was due at this time anyway, whether we left or stayed. In fact, because the UK was in the EU at the time, the government HAD to open up the bidding process to all EU companies as per EU rules. Don't believe James O'Brien when he said Brexit was all about blue passports and fish.

@johnjephcote7636 3 жыл бұрын

My burgundy coloured one does not expire until 2027. Presumably it's still valid? (OK, I take it out of the Polish protective cover that I bought in a kiosk in Praga, Warsaw!).

@ErikHare 4 жыл бұрын

The extent which this is considered important is directly proportional to the extent to which the United Kingdom is doomed

@FAngus-ly8lk 3 жыл бұрын

How on earth does the new blue UK passport symbolize "freedom" when its holders have LOST THE FREEDOM to live, work and travel freely without visas in the 27 countries of Europe? This is sheer idiocy.

@Askarissupercars 4 жыл бұрын

As an Australian, I have always thought the British passport looked nice in burgundy and gold. I always thought all the blue passports (such as our own) were boring and overly common (you mentioned 81 countries use them). But for me, one of nicest passports is the kiwi one. Black with the silver fern on the cover.

@beamboy07 2 жыл бұрын

Well just got mine only to learn theyre actually black

@stephenjon3502 2 жыл бұрын

@@beamboy07 The Irish one is more valuable.

@beamboy07 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenjon3502 ? Valuable

@beamboy07 2 жыл бұрын

In what wat

@beamboy07 2 жыл бұрын

Way

@visjenl 4 жыл бұрын

Brexit will bring new jobs to the UK. Blue passport is Made in poland Also “your father smelt of elderberries” is a great motto for a country 3:23

@Roberc7 4 жыл бұрын

"I cannot wait to travel with [a new blue passport]" Said no one ever, it's a freaking passport

@CBfrmcardiff 4 жыл бұрын

Nope. My immediate family were all very angry about losing the original passport design. They've always resented the burgandy passport.

@maxvandenberg955 4 жыл бұрын

CBfrmcardiff Well, they should grow up. It is a passport for god sake, it is not meant to be a fashion item. Nor is it meant to be seen or shown unless absolutely necessary. I have a burgundy passport but I don’t and never will care what for colour it is -as do most people in most countries I suppose because there are more important things to worry about (not a fact but logical thinking) - as long as that I know it is a passport and other countries and people also recognise that it is a passport.

@firstnamelastname-uw6vq 4 жыл бұрын

@@CBfrmcardiff Well as you see, your family should've been angry at UK because nothing really required them to change it lol. Also if you get angry over a color of a passport either you have the temper of a kindergarten child or you have a lot of time to spend on stupid shit like that. Honestly that's the equivalent of kindergarten children arguing about a crayon.

@saddoncarrs6963 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think I'll ever be getting one of these. I'll be due a new passport in 2029 - I suspect I'll be replacing it with a Scottish passport.

@Logarithm906 4 жыл бұрын

haha, as an englishman i wouldn't blame you (or ireland). Unfortunately then we'd become the Former United Kingdom of England and Wales. Unfortunate because of the acronym FUKEW. Then again i guess it wouldn't be the first time in our history that our diplomats went around saying "Hi, I'm from FUK EW" .

@johnjephcote7636 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, that answers my question. So despite the wine colour, I can still use it until it expires. The way everyone talks it seemed as if the different colour made it invalid!

@AlexanderGent 4 жыл бұрын

So basically, to sum up the major headline, the passport has changed to blue... 😱

@tubbalcain 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but isn't great to stretch this, and talk about it for 10:17 min? 😁

@AndysTake 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody noticed the fact that they’re changing it TO the literal colour that defines the EU? Blue? It’s hilarious on a whole different level.

@Adam-oc6pq 4 жыл бұрын

or the Tory colour? or the democrat party colour? or the colour of my jumper? seriously dude come on

@AndysTake 4 жыл бұрын

Adam dude, I’m just saying. It’s hilarious.

@prince.r Жыл бұрын

The coat of arms in the blue passport reads: "Your father smelt of elderberries" & "Your mother was a hamster" 😂

@AJ_real 4 жыл бұрын

So wait a second. If you got a UK passport before march, it will still have European Union on it? Surely that means that some Brits will still be in the EU?

@marklynch1679 4 жыл бұрын

How does leaving the EU give you more National Identity?

@CharlieBrown723 4 жыл бұрын

Are you stupid???

@obscureinception8302 4 жыл бұрын

Leaving the EU doesn't give the UK any benefits at all.

@marklynch1679 4 жыл бұрын

@@obscureinception8302 exactly mate

@Maunakea0 4 жыл бұрын

Blue, and gold? Like the EU flag?

@louisbeerreviews8964 4 жыл бұрын

maunakea no

@gamerairborne101 3 жыл бұрын

Union flag?🇬🇧

@christopherg2347 4 жыл бұрын

I find it funny that some people think following a EU *sugestion* for passport coloration, some ruined their countries sovereignty.

@blotski 2 жыл бұрын

Two years later - I have just received my new passport. I can confirm that they look black unless you hold them under a strong light in which case you can just make out a slight navy blue tinge.

@TheJulislp 4 жыл бұрын

They changed the language on the coat of arms on the passport from French to English (while all the old ones had French text) Also, the old passport was black not blue. So apparently they don't really care about using the old one again and they just desperately don't want to use burgundy....

@TheJulislp 4 жыл бұрын

@Jewels Star I'm not British

@tomo_ov_da_ghetto4112 4 жыл бұрын

Wtf? Stop cryin theyre leaving be nice and say good-bye. Why call them all morons? (you sound bitter/upset they are leaving )We want our own passports, i didnt see any of that rally. Dont beleive anyfink of the british media its all propaganda,, they show them mongs on edf rallys, go ask any of them mongs they dont vote and dont see a point in doing so. Many ppl i speak to who voted leave had their own diverse reasons and none was close to what the media reports their reason for voting leave was. How does anyone really know why somebodys vote was for? You dont give reasons you just tick x

@tomo_ov_da_ghetto4112 4 жыл бұрын

Sigular voting point, thats total bullshit nobody voted leave for that. No one. You sound sad upset and bitter theyre leaving. Be glad your no longer tied to the so called morons.

@tomo_ov_da_ghetto4112 4 жыл бұрын

Bitter theyre leavin? Why you so bitter mate. Be happy for them!

@grassytramtracks Жыл бұрын

@@tomo_ov_da_ghetto4112 don't be happy for us leaving the EU. It was a really stupid decision!

@patrickcavanaghkilmartin 4 жыл бұрын

Made in Poland by a French company with the loss of 200 UK jobs. Very Brexit.....

@rek3457 4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't forced decision. Someone from the UK that governed decided to change to the EUs colour

@CorsairSoul 4 жыл бұрын

'United Kingdom' now an oxymoron.

@CorsairSoul 4 жыл бұрын

You understood my point.

@commandantcousteau6874 4 жыл бұрын

Uk:Shocked because it's made by French company. Fr:"Dieu et mon droit". Edit:In French,phonetically it mean "god is my right" but litteraly it mean "god and my right"

@princesspinkblue 4 жыл бұрын

Commandant Cousteau its actually latin

@Rev-bb9ej 4 жыл бұрын

@@princesspinkblue No it is French. In latin it could be written as "Deus et solio meo" or "Deus et herede de solio". Though don't take my word for it completely, my latin is pretty bad.

@katamariroller2837 4 жыл бұрын

@@Rev-bb9ej Can´t speak for your latin, but yeah. That´s French 110%.

@ramel684 4 жыл бұрын

People do seem to forget that we've been ruled by the French since 1066

@tacosmexicanstyle7846 4 жыл бұрын

Ramel They forget it because it isn’t true. The Normans were not French.

@coolsushi6624 4 жыл бұрын

Your picture of the blue passport is missing the biometric symbol. The passport you guys are showing in the vid is the old design

@wantokamerica4105 Күн бұрын

I had a look at the first passport my mother (born 1926) had- the classic UK passport, hard cover, very high quality finish. This new post-Brexit version is a cheap imitation, with smudgy printing and a flimsy cover. And it is not even the same dark almost-black blue. Sums up Brexit perfectly.

@ElectrifiedLex 4 жыл бұрын

I mean it's just a passport, how ridiculous

@gentlemanvontweed7147 4 жыл бұрын

Not just a passport. It is a symbol of freedom from foreign oppression.

@ElectrifiedLex 4 жыл бұрын

@@gentlemanvontweed7147 If you say so

@ElectrifiedLex 4 жыл бұрын

@ImOld Gregg Mad much 🤣

@ondrejbrezina4053 4 жыл бұрын

@@gentlemanvontweed7147 Lol, Brits talking about "foreign oppression" is always so hilariously ironic. Read something about the British Raj to see what real "foreign oppression" looks like.

@nicolamiceli9097 4 жыл бұрын

@@ondrejbrezina4053 exactly..they just sound stupid and arrogant

@smuu1996 4 жыл бұрын

I'm not british so I shall keep my old red german one, it's nicer anyway.

@k.e.w 4 жыл бұрын

I'm German and our passports are already fitted with all this tec yeaaaars ago !!! 🤣🤣🤣

@smuu1996 4 жыл бұрын

@Jewels Star Well for the past 40 years the entire british media and politicians have blamed all failures of the british economy and themselves on the EU, which is why some many english people don't like it today. After they're out, they won't be able to blame the EU anymore, so in a couple pf years they will like it again. Btw the best solution to the whole EU-Northern Ireland question in my opinion would just be to give it (back) to Ireland, under the condition that they treat the local Protestants well, which probably wouldn't be too hard. It would be fine, and nobody would be too unhappy with it, it would just be dame same as before but reversed.

@smuu1996 4 жыл бұрын

@Jewels Star Putin didn't do too much I think, most countries have enough idiots, he just gave some money to the right people

@chrisdevine4848 4 жыл бұрын

I am British. My passport doesn't expire for 9 years. I'm gonna keep it for as long as possible.

@chrisdevine4848 4 жыл бұрын

@Jewels Star - I'm sorry I made you read my post stating my intent to keep my burgundy passport and this bored you. Oh wait. I didn't.

@richardcutts196 4 жыл бұрын

Get your UK passport while there's still a UK.

@James-yk3jr 4 жыл бұрын

Are there still leftover burgundy stocks as of April/May?

@TheRidiculousnessPod 4 жыл бұрын

If the blue one comes with that monty python quote then I definitely want one! If not then I'll pass thanks!

@MrRyfoe 4 жыл бұрын

“And I can’t wait to travel with one” to where love? Wales? Because that’s about as far as you’ll make it now with the British passport

@joachimschoder 4 жыл бұрын

So the UK government spends tax payer money on empty gestures. Good to know where their priorities lie.

@lordlucan7655 4 жыл бұрын

always thought my old passport was black . A very dark shade of blue that everyone saw as closer to black than blue

@Tracks777 4 жыл бұрын

lovely content

@danwic 4 жыл бұрын

Burgundy. That colour has always reminded me of Britishness :). Yes yes I know it's a French name but so is Farage :p

@TheMinecraftSandbox 4 жыл бұрын

I love the new blue look but I’ve fairly recently renewed my passport so have more than 8 years with my old burgundy one, but won’t be renewing because of the cost!

@ugetsu2093 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, Australia is planning to replace the current booklet passport with a plastic credit card type that fits in your wallet like a driver’s licence. As more and more countries are replacing stamped visas with electronic ones, this is not far off. Many countries have already stopped stamping. Besides being easy to forge anyway, stamping passports all day can cause workplace injuries to immigration officers.

@grassytramtracks Жыл бұрын

Most countries still have stamps, so I don't see that happening any time soon they'd have to keep offering booklets until every single country on earth doesn't issue stamps

@ugetsu2093 Жыл бұрын

@@grassytramtracks That is not how bureaucrats think. They could offer a card for say $300 and an optional booklet for $950. They would consider that flexible service.

@NoForceRRK 4 жыл бұрын

RULE BRITANNIA THE PASSPORTS ARE MADE IN Poland lmao

@givemeakidney 4 жыл бұрын

Just FYI for everyone, Rule Britania is "Zasada Britania" and Passport is (far easier) "Paszport". Saying "Rule Britania" slower and in a louder voice will only begin to work AFTER 2021.

@MihailBFC 4 жыл бұрын

because is cheaper to produce them there...:))

@bourpierre198 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the really great videos :). Up to 4:56, it sounds like british people voted to have the right to change their colour passport (which they actually had anyway) but become a second-hand country economically, a shame (and I don't really think the so-called hassle over how EU is going to fill the financial gap left by brexit means anything in terms of negotiating position. Simple case of math: do you cut off 60 bn (UK) or several hundreds of bn (rest of the single market)). Keep on the good work !

@BrightstoneGG Жыл бұрын

britain can now trade freely with the rest of the world, it's the uk politicians still want eu money in their back pockets thats why they trying to make brexit fail, also it's not just money, britain leaving the eu left a power vacuum , small countries are either going to get dominated by france or germany now

@chaitusunkara 4 жыл бұрын

Worth covering what countries passport holders can travel to without a visa

@claudetteh67 Жыл бұрын

I totally thought this would come up in the video.

@xandervampire195 3 жыл бұрын

The colour doesn't matter to me. What does matter is the stuff they're not talking about. Specifically, the disadvantages of travelling between the UK and mainland Europe after Brexit. I'm glad that my current passport will still be valid but if travel restrictions or extra rules for travel between the two start appearing (which has a pretty high likelihood), they can stick their blue passport up their arse. If that happens, I'll just cash in on my Irishness and get a Republic of Ireland passport instead when my current one runs out (I'm fully entitled to either a British or Irish one). There's no point changing right now as I still have several years left on my current passport so I'll hold off for now and make my decision when this one expires.

@iedco4 4 жыл бұрын

Will the new Ration Books come in blue as well ?

@jjosephs6521 4 жыл бұрын

Consider the socialist didn't win the election, I suppose the potential colour of ration books is not something we have think about.

@fuzzlemacfuzz 4 жыл бұрын

@@jjosephs6521 no, we'll just be told what colour it is and who to hate for needing a ration book in the first place. But rest assured it'll be the fault of foreigners and not the government.

@jjosephs6521 4 жыл бұрын

@@fuzzlemacfuzz Well if you truly believe Brexit will cause economic strife and rationing, take some financial positions in foreign markets that reflect your pessimistic outlook of the British economy, if you're right about Britain's economic future you'll be so wealthy you'll be able to avoid the consequences of rationing. What, don't you have the courage of your convictions, put your money where your mouth is, talk is cheap.

@dittikke 4 жыл бұрын

@@jjosephs6521 That would be the opportunistic Brexiteer stance. Bet against the country, it's all capitalism isn't it?

@madmonkee6757 4 жыл бұрын

@@jjosephs6521 it;s always Conservatives that institute austerity. Socialism is good for the economy.

@shanematthews1985 4 жыл бұрын

See i WISH the real passport actually had that quote on it, would make me feel pride :P

@theshadowdirector 4 жыл бұрын

I mean, I think its a nicer shade and all... But please don't tell me that was the make or break issue for some...

@crazyt1483 4 жыл бұрын

I have one of the new blue passports and think that it looks nice but I feel that the designs on the bergandy ones stap pages look nicer as they now look plain in comparison. Also there was a little °c to °f conversation printed on the stamp pages gone now. Also on the main ID Page the photo is monochrome now with a colour photo on the observations page, undesired about the compass design that is on most pages. I feel like if they had the artwork like the past instead of the new one with the flower watermarks. Small amounts of hidden uv ink printing and purple writing on the plastic component glows under the uv light. I like the hidden UK that is visible though the transparent section when the plastic ID page and 1st Page line up along with the normal holograms, no sign of micro printing but some faint intercrate design does exist

@liamolaoghaire 4 жыл бұрын

I love the blue design, I already have a European passport so it’s nice to have some variety

@annefagit3305 4 жыл бұрын

I'd rather have a gammon flavoured passport

@razarraz8276 4 жыл бұрын

As someone who's grown up on only the red passport, and someone who vote leave the blue one looks naff to me.

@kajetanrachwa6742 4 жыл бұрын

Dear TLDR News, while taking the graphics for the passport in the video, you took a photoshopped version with the motto in the coat of arms exchanged for the phrase "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries", I noticed it in 3:36, but pretty sured it was also there before. You might want to do something about it.

@alasdairpage 4 жыл бұрын

Wait - blue and silver or blue and gold?

@giacintoboccia9386 4 жыл бұрын

If you look carefully at the sections where the original post is shown it's blue and gold and the design is different.

@frmcf 4 жыл бұрын

Yanny

@faiselbutt2944 4 жыл бұрын

This document gives you less freedom. Congratulations

@solidus784 4 жыл бұрын

way less freedom and losing the right to work all over Europe Visa free but hey it's a lovely shade of blue

@jjosephs6521 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, this document does give you less freedom to travel, but Brexit gives more freedom to control the domestic affairs of your country. So if freedom is what you're interested in, following through with Brexit gives you more total net freedom.

@solidus784 4 жыл бұрын

@@jjosephs6521 "but Brexit gives more freedom to control the domestic affairs of your country". Specifically what freedoms are you gaining the are so important they overwrite all the freedoms you will be losing.

@ramel684 4 жыл бұрын

@@jjosephs6521 lol, that's even dumber than thinking the colour of your travel documents matters 🤣🤣🤣

@isnitjustkit 4 жыл бұрын

Jessica Josephs Brexit wont grant us anything but trading freedoms to make worse deals than before because we no longer have the support of the world’s largest trading bloc

@Cjnw 8 ай бұрын

Plantagenêts: You're welcome!

@dg8620 4 жыл бұрын

3:18 I know it isn't but I like to imagine that each of the blue stick figures are all just Boris in different wigs.

@CallieMasters5000 4 жыл бұрын

The billions of pounds it cost for Brexit will surely be worth it to get a blue passport that drunken tourists can lose in a sewer somewhere. Congrats!

@andrewfrancis3591 4 жыл бұрын

Present 285 visa free destinations. How many will we have after Brexit?

@manorexia1964 4 жыл бұрын

Andrew Francis great question...but I think that 95% still visa free up to 90 or 180 days....

@JamesHardaker 4 жыл бұрын

@@manorexia1964 a travel visa is valid for 90 or 180 days, the USA one is a bout $20 for 2 years i think

@Ocrilat 4 жыл бұрын

If the UK is returning to the iconic blue and gold passport, why is the one shown blue and silver?

@keeloraz9452 4 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t the British passport black in the 80s before burgundy

@santi0501 4 жыл бұрын

The red ones looked nicer. Partially because I hate brexit.

@johnseabrook1703 4 жыл бұрын

I love Brexit

@samuelbrooks1533 4 жыл бұрын

...I literally received my passport just over a week ago, it must be one of the *last* Burgundy design to be issued. As in believer for remaining in the EU, I feel quite honoured to keep it for the next 10 years (despite the fact that Blue is my favourite colour!)

@herebyhereby2874 4 жыл бұрын

Leftist

@GabrielVelasco 4 жыл бұрын

Re: Passport Printing. It's common for some countries to have their coins minted and bank notes printed in other countries, and even PRIVATE mints and security printers in other countries. I just looked it up, and it looks like at least some Euros are being printed by a company in the U.K. I'm sure this is common with passports too.

@mauriceoreilly9955 Жыл бұрын

I like how "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is replaced by "Your mother was a hamster", and "Dieu est mon droit" by "Your father smelt of elderberries". This must be one of the truly great triumphs of Brexit! Seriously though, I note that, on both Burgundy red and blue passports, the request/requirement (on the Britannic Majesty page) refers to the 'bearer'. Who is this bearer and how does she/he relate to the Kingdom? Subject or citizen? Does the UK have citizens? On my Irish passport (the only passport I have), the bearer is clearly identified as 'saoránach d'Éirinn' ('a citizen of Ireland'). What, pray, is the status of our former European friends and current Britannic neighbours who share our island or inhabit the one next to us?

@pittnyc1 4 жыл бұрын

God bless Poland.

@donwald3436 4 жыл бұрын

You’re celebrating having less visa-free access, congratulations. USA USA USA USA

@london_james 4 жыл бұрын

how is there less visa free access?

@donwald3436 4 жыл бұрын

James McNeil You don’t have any more treaties, you muppet.

@gentlemanvontweed7147 4 жыл бұрын

@@pussieswillneverbeheroes6019 Exactly. No more Muslims or eastern Europeans.

@aibh7903 4 жыл бұрын

Gentleman von Tweed What Muslim countries are in the EU? 🤔

@gentlemanvontweed7147 4 жыл бұрын

@@aibh7903 Currently? Sweden. Though I see Germany and France joining their ranks in the near future.

@tobeytransport2802 4 жыл бұрын

0:09 your father was a hamster, your father smelt of elderberries!

@petermc7098 3 жыл бұрын

Hello There, great video throughout, thank you for producing this video. It's really informative, particularly being able to see the differences in formalities etc. Cheers Peter :)

@johntrayner6036 4 жыл бұрын

The “iconic blue passport” was the old hard cover version. They did give an odd feeling of superiority when almost every other country's seemed like a cheap Identity document. Shades of “papieren bitte”. The reason for changing to the soft cover version was nothing to do with the EU but a need to standardise travel documents so that electronic scanning equipment could be used. I've just got my new burgundy passport but unfortunately without the words “European Union”