Brexit is a deal breaker for me. Any thoughts I've ever had about moving to UK for any reason went out the window when Brexit happened.
Remigration!
Isn't the UK also having it's own right wing problems?
I know people who's parents immigrated to the US from Mexico. Their parents worked under-the-table jobs and hard blue collar jobs so their children could have a better life than them. Those same children are grown up now and applying for Mexican citizenship just in case.
Seems like trading one shitty situation for another, UK's government is fucked too, isn't it?
Well that's at least what the right wing media wants you to believe.
Actually things are looking pretty good for the UK. Even Reform seems to have peaked in voter share and is on the way down. The most recent by-election is a race between greens and labour with Reform nowhere near those two.
There's a subreeddit "GoodNewsUK" which is a pretty good reality check.
I mean, you don't just get shot on the street legally, and we don't have ICE (yet), and not everything is a complete scam... But maybe in 20 years we'll be there. Hopefully the UK takes a different route, and I doubt the "infrastructure" is there to go full "legal slavery and for profit prisons" British MAGA to begin with.
You say that, but there's stuff like Brexit and now this age verification bullshit: I'm not convinced Britain is that far behind.
Does a UK passport allow you to live in other parts of the Commonwealth than just British Isles?
I don't think so, sadly, but I'm not entirely sure. I'm leaning towards no. A EU passport is more flexible, and one can move to Spain and become a national somewhat quickly and then idk settle in Germany or Finland if you want to. Ofc if SHTF in Europe that's a different story, but I guess you could in theory move to French Guyana, lol.
Like most US folks, I wish I had job flexibility and the money to just up and emigrate. Alas most have no choice but to stay.
My only option is arguably worse than the US. Only positive is that I could go to the beach more.
Imagine.
USonians immigrating into the UK.
Let's hope they respect the tea.
I hope the UK treats the Americans the way Americans have treated immigrants.
But let's be honest, they won't care because they're white so the media won't tell the rubes to hate the white immigrants.
Reminds me of the ending of The Day After Tomorrow when US citizens had to cross the border into Mexico and seek asylum there because of (oh the irony) climate change. Would be nice schadenfraude to see.
Oh I will hate on the loud self centred Yanks if I ever have the misfortune to encounter one...
Lolz. The UK? The one that's about to install the Reform Party?
You idiots. You imbeciles. You're just rats jumping from one sinking ship onto another.
Can't really fully outrun the decline and sociopolitical chaos of the West if you just go to a different "province" of the West, but that's probably where they fit in the best so what other options do Americans have? They're not gonna go to China (when just learning French is almost an impossibility), they're not gonna go to the Gulf countries or idk Singapore (even though in the big cities I'm sure you can get your booze, and there are often softer laws for the pagans/polytheists/atheists/whatever and harsher laws for the local Muslims)... It doesn't seem like they have more appealing choices and America keeps falling down the stairs so it's kinda now or never.
It doesn’t seem like they have more appealing choices
Right, so why leave at all? Just moving from the frying pan to the fire.
Maybe you get two good decades before you have to run away again? Ideally, people stay and try to rebuild and whatnot but I understand their decision too.
Reform are an absolute joke at the moment, from my understanding. I doubt they will be winning an election any time soon.
Currently polling has Reform at a +112 seat majority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#2026
Approval polling has Reform as the predominant choice.
It does seem to be a downward trajectory at least though. Let me cling to a little hope please :P. Perhaps the debates will swing it in Polanski's favour; he is the only one who lays out a reasonable plan for working folks.
I hope the wider British public wakes up before the election. But, pretty much all of the mainstream media encourages their base instincts to blame immigrants at some level, rather than the wealthy. They are caught in a propaganda loop. Some of that influence is obvious (The Mail), some of it is very subtle (BBC, TheGuardian - editorship).
But I'm not overly optimistic. It took them way too long to realise the Tory leopards were eating their faces.
Americans coming over here is quite laughable. Good luck guys, you'd be better off somewhere that has a relatively young democracy and/or dictatorship in living memory (Germany and Spain look pretty good from where I'm sitting - but even Germany is a little bit O.o).
It does seem to be a downward trajectory at least though.
They're off their peak, as they're being forced to try and govern in the smattering of local elections they've already won. Also, Reform is getting larded up with Tory and New Labour refugees. The joke I've heard is "this may be the first boat to get sunk by the rats jumping on board".
I hope the wider British public wakes up before the election.
The public is constantly being "woken up" by a hysterical national media. It is, if anything, too awake. Like a man on a coke bender who hasn't slept in days. They're incapable of supporting any kind of moderate liberal campaign for fear of these candidates being too nice to Muslims or Gays or KGB agents or pedophiles.
you’d be better off somewhere that has a relatively young democracy and/or dictatorship in living memory (Germany and Spain look pretty good from where I’m sitting - but even Germany is a little bit O.o).
Germany is absolutely fucked. The AfD is polling on par with Reform, atm.
Spain is caught between a dozen different rocks and hard places. I'd say they at least have some nice HSR, but two derailments in as many months is fucking bleak. All of Europe is once again staring down the barrel of "Oops, all out of money", thanks to their inability to tax billionaires or nationalize critical industries. It's going to be a repeat of 2010 if the US economy repeats 2008.
feking imigints takin er jerbs
And because this is the Internet /s
Well I did immigrate here like five years ago. But I kept my US job. I've just become a weird hermit. It's great.
Bluuudy yanks takin me job...
Trig's aunt had more Yanks than Eisenhower.
I'm guessing none of these Americans are trans.
By making the move they would by definition be trans.
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