Some 8,790 Americans sought citizenship in the UK, either through registration or naturalisation in 2025, according to Home Office data published Thursday.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      Reform are an absolute joke at the moment, from my understanding. I doubt they will be winning an election any time soon.

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          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).

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            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.