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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    Where are all the racists who claim that they aren’t racist for wanting to deport black and brown people? You know? All those reform voters who insist its not a race thing? Why arent they kicking off about all of the americans trying to come over?

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    Send them back. They left without cleaning up their mess, that’s not how we’re raised.

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      The ones leaving were likely against creating this mess, and it’s unfair to apply a group punishment to someone based on where they were born.

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    Farage’s Britain is similar-enough to Trump’s America that it’s “golden”, but it’s still less-collapsed than the US, so it’s preferable, right??

    England’s monarchism, its class-religion ( rooted in monarchism, so it’s short-term irremoveable ), & its framing-games ( Brexit was a result of 1 such ) make it the most-similar to the US, except for the “patriotism” indoctrination that is normal in schools in the US…

    it’s a “good” fit

    it’ll have consequences for England, of course, as all population-composition-changes do…

    …helping Farage’s mission…

    You can transplant the body, even the life, but you aren’t changing the religion, & the US’s religion PRODUCED the US’s current-condition, exactly the same as all our countries are in the process of distilling our own national-corruption-essences into authority-institutions, as quickly as we can, because we haven’t got spine-enough to filter-out DarkTriad from authority, in ANY of our countries…


    Note the numbers, though: nearly 9k asking citizenship in the UK from the US…

    https://blog.hireahelper.com/2025-texas-migration-report/ over 0.26-MILLION moved to texas in the year before 2025-Oct.

    Yes, the drasticness of the change is different, but when you’ve got nearly 2 orders of magnitude difference between the opportunism vs the fleeing, then you’re seeing significant evidence of national-nature.

    As a US citizen told me, years ago: “you’re welcome in Texas only as long as you’re leaving: don’t try settling there, no matter where you’re from, you AREN’T welcome there”, & over the years that has become more & more validated.

    Use 'em & lose 'em, right?

    I “wonder” if that paradigm, in-play for workers from other-states, also is in-play for immigrant farm-workers??

    /s

    That the people with-means are escaping, is natural:

    aren’t the oligarchs making certain that they’ve got their isolation, their coddling, & their security, including bunkers, ready & operating, for the butchering-down of the “masses”?

    Why wouldn’t we who can afford to leave impending-hell zones do-so, with our families?

    It’s the same principle…

    We aren’t as causing-of-the-problem as the oligarchs are, but we’re still accommodating of the root-problem, & saving ourselves, leaving others to eat the coming atrocities, same as always…

    That woke socialist convict, the root-guru of the Christians, Yesua benJoseph, he got in there with the people who were about-to-be-stoned-to-death, with the convicts, with the crushed, the destitute, etc, & fought for their-validity & their-rights…

    No wonder he was exterminated by the privilege-conservatives of his time.

    ( he was conservative-of-LivingWorth, conservative-of-LivingPotential, & conservative-of-LivingOpportunity, so pretending, as the privilege-conservatives do, that THEY ALONE “own” the meaning of “conservative” is false, & always has been: they just conserve different things.

    As a delightful Jewish mind on a TLC TV-show, last-century or so, identified: when benJoseph got violent on the commercial-operation of the Temple, that was an incredibly Jewish thing to do! … he was being conservative, just of the essence of Judaism, instead of its forms … & that difference is important.

    All the false-framing in the world isn’t going to go-away for no reason: it has to be force-displaced! )

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      Farage’s Britain

      Farage holds no office and his party has 8 MPs. Almost half of them hadn’t run as Reform candidates, but instead jumped ship from the Conservatives. By comparison, Labour has 404 MPs. The fasc-friendly media would love to market Reform’s success in 2028 as inevitable, but it’s just as likely that they’ll do well in the 2026 mid-terms (which are for local government positions), then fall on their faces in 2028 once people see how fanatical and incompetent they are when they’re in office.

      Also, there’s a (small) chance that Labour will unwedge its collective head and pass much-needed laws reforming foreign funding of election campaigns and transparency of party donations. If they do so, Farage will be fucked.

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    Like most US folks, I wish I had a job flexibility and the money to just up and emigrate. Alas most have no choice but to stay.

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      I gave up my career and started over in something entirely different at a paltry salary, but I got out.

      I totally understand your decision, but historically emigration is FILLED with stories of even professionals like doctors and engineers needing to accept very low paid wage work and re-credentialing in exchange for a longer term reset in a better country.

      Again, I absolutely get it - but that’s not the same thing as “no choice”.

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        i think doctors and scientists would have an easier intergrating than othe rprofessionals, givien how they arnt making a complete change in thier career, just “relocation”, plus the benefits of being one these groups.

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        You still have to have the money to move, be healthy enough to be accepted by the new country, etc. For many many people there is no choice. None. Often those that need it most.

        Not blaming anyone that has the agency to leave. But it is what it is.

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      limited for those that dont have a spouse, PHD, MD, or some kind of niche speciality that isnt demand in other country. or you are unable to apply for grad school in those countries.

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      My only option is arguably worse than the US. Only positive is that I could go to the beach more.

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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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      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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          The next general election is in 2028. Polls now have no predictive power that far into the future.

          Also, the UK is riddled with push-polling.

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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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            Polanski is starting to fall out with his party. He, a committed zionist, while his party wants to pass a resolution defining zionism as apartheid. It’ll probably end in tears before the next general election.

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              There’s an out-of-context quote where Polanski is saying Zionism doesn’t have to be inherently racist. And, back in the early days after 1948, there were indeed socialist Zionists who were committed to equality for Palestinians. But they were soon pushed aside by the hard-right faction. So I’d differ from Zach and would argue that this is inevitable in a colonialist, nationalist enterprise.

              There’s a resolution proposed for the upcoming Green conference declaring that Zionism is racism. I’ll be voting for it.

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              Here’s a paraphrased quote from Zack Polanski: “Zionism is Racism”

              What are you even talking about? Israel owns all the other major parties, except the greens! That quote is 100% more than any leader of any UK party has ever said regarding Israel or Gaza.

              Three very different sources on this:

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                He told LBC last week that Zionism wasn’t racist, and that it was just Netanyahu making it racist.

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                  When pressed, he refused to declare Zionism racist in that interview. That’s quite different from saying zionism isn’t racist; he just wouldn’t say that it was. Also, he’s kind of right isn’t he? From a nuanced perspective, it’s Netanyahu and his party that have largely created the fascism at the heart of Israel, so I appreciate his point. But, I suppose theoretically, the fact he went to reflect before changing his position, could indicate a needed to gain permission from the person he is owned by before changing his stance.

                  This week he has said specifically, that zionism is racism under pressure from his party. I don’t see that as the act of a committed zionist, but then again is it just verbal buttering? He’s seemingly willing to go so much further than Starmer, Badenoch or Farage in his anti-Israel speech. If he was owned by Netanyahu like so many politicians are, he wouldn’t be able to say this freely surely? It also shows he’s willing to go with consensus of his party which is also a good sign.

                  That said I’ve been fooled before by music to my ears; so it comes down to a matter of trust doesn’t it? Do we trust him? There’s no telling before reaching power. He’s been transparent about his finances at least; and doesn’t appear to have been bought like many other politicians. But whether or not he’s a Trojan horse for the left, who has a hidden master, is impossible to see at this stage.

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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.

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            I came to the UK over a decade ago. It’s much better than the US. Not all that bad. The fascist media has been loudly broadcasting propaganda about decline, but

            some of it is very subtle (BBC, TheGuardian - editorship)

            Nothing subtle about the BBC, it’s had 14 years of Tory appointments to senior positions, and Starmer has done nothing to correct the imbalance. The Guardian has always been centrist-- for example when they bought into the “Corbyn is antisemitic” lies and jumped on the Labour Together bandwagon, but even before that, they’ve always had a big representation of old SDP hands and other non-Tory anti-socialists. I fully expect they’ll be turning their guns on the Greens, now, trying to keep dead-duck Starmer afloat a bit longer.

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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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      As bad as it is, it would still be an improvement compared to the US for them.

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        I mostly agree, but if my sister were fleeing the fascism here in the US I would recommend she pick a safer place, since the trajectory of the UK, while different from ours, still doesn’t look great.

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      It’s not good with all the bollocks they’re currently doing but wait until the current PM hands the next election to Nigel Farage and Reform (Republican-lite). It will get a lot worse then.

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      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.

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        Does a UK passport allow you to live in other parts of the Commonwealth than just British Isles?

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          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.

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          Not inherently. Many of them do offer favorable visa terms (easier work requirements, longer stays, etc).

          A UK national can live in Gibraltar, but that’s because it’s UK territory.

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          It doesn’t allow residence in the “British Isles”. It would however allow residence in Ireland.

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        No dude, you have IP cameras rolled out alread, you’re primed for the AI surveillance state by 2029. You’re also just as deep in Israel’s blackmail book and they probably have most of your state secrets (which is why the prosecutions, they don’t care about the kids). Less violent, same destination.

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        You say that, but there’s stuff like Brexit and now this age verification bullshit: I’m not convinced Britain is that far behind.

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      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.

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      Yup. Andrew and the diplomat are in trouble for leaking intelligence to Epstein not the kids. The UK is still all in on Orwellian AI surveillance and still Israel’s #2 bitch.

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      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.

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        Oh I will hate on the loud self centred Yanks if I ever have the misfortune to encounter one…

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        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.

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    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.

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      My mom came from the UK. Even though I was born in the US, it was long enough ago that I also have British Citizenship by default (even though I’ve only ever spent 4 weeks of my life there on vacations). Filed the paperwork and got my British passport last year just in case….

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      I can tell you, Americans who immigrate to Canada bring the stupid with them. It’s like, “nice country, glad I moved here, how can we fuck it up like the USA?”

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        Oh, they’re 10 or 20 years ahead of the rest of Europe: over a decade ago the local equivalent of MAGA whilst taking over their rightmost main party ended up causing Brexit and in government with an absolute parliamentary majority (and, remember, Britain is not a presidential system).

        In most of Europe the Far-Right is not in power, much fucking things up to the level of Brexit.