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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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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 28 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Why the fuck would anyone want to go to the UK? It is Trumpland, but with a accent.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago

Having lived there, I agree that Britain is the most Fascist nation in Europe after Belarous and Russia, though theirs is the Posh Aristocratic version, so it's not as loud and obvious as "strongman" Fascism.

[–] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 13 points 12 hours ago

It's somewhat telling that you comment implies that everyone else has an accent and you don't :)

[–] Nurgus@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

We haven't gone anywhere near being Trump land yet. And the Trump party (Reform) just got wrecked in an election yesterday.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You seem to somehow have missed the whole Brexit shitshow, including the Tory party becoming openly Anti-Immigrant, Racist and ultra-nationalist with massive national delusions of grandeur (made oh so painfully obvious when the pranced into the EU exit negotiation loudly proclaiming they held all the cards, ultimatilly showing that they did not and not getting the things they wanted the most).

(And lets not forget Britain's very own version of Trump: Boris Johnson)

You also seem to have missed the insane Civil Society Surveillance levels as disclosed in the Snowden Revelations and the recent legislation forcing Britons to ID themselves on the Internet, which is now being further tightenned with proposed restrictions to VPN use.

And lets not forget the anti-Demonstration legislation of the last decade as well as the anti-Terrorism legislation and how it was recently used to arrest anti-Genocide demonstrators as "Terrorism Supporters".

This is not normal in Democracy.

I've lived in multiple countries in Europe, including Britain, and in my view the UK is the most Fascist country in Europe after Belarous and Russia, it's just that British politicians don't play the loud and obnoxious strongman role like Trump or Orban, they play the posh vaguelly aristocratic type who rather than fight the Justice System subverts it to make it a tool to punish those of the riff-raff who are a bit more uppity, hence things like using anti-Terrorism legislation to crack down on those who demonstrate against His Majesty's Government's active support of Genocide.

Granted, given how far the Overtoon Window is to the Right in Britain, I can understand that whilst those outside see the present day Tories as a Far-Right party, for those inside that kind of politics is now so normalized that it's hard for most to recognize just how Far-Right the present day Tories are both in broader European terms and even in historical British terms, so they only see the even-more-Far-Right insane nutters of Reform as Far-Right.

Mind you in my experience the shift to and normalization of the Far-Right is one of the things Britain is ahead of the rest of Europe in: I'm seing happening were I am now the kind of thing I saw happen in Britain over a decade ago.

[–] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Ironically the only reform supporter I encountered is my brother who now lives in Australia.

He doesn't like immigrants, we're English.. .. umm

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Especially when Ireland is right there!

[–] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm in England and feel you're on the money there. Their economy is booming with lots of US companies utilising their tax efficient policies.

You get the best of both worlds and hey, Americans are always saying they're Irish so they're going back to their motherland

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, I did a gene test and it turns out I'm 0.000001% irish. I may as well move there! (/s)

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Céad míle fáilte!

[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago

Ireland has shitty phd programs

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Because most Americans can only speak English. And Australia is really far away.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If only there was someplace closer

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think people don't like the cold.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

I've got good news and bad news

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

isn't Australia just as bad if not worse?

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They just banned corporations from donating to politicians. So. Maybe not really. They also don't have a trump.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

but they do have a Murdoch...

and a NSW...

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hey man... Murdoch is fair play....but this was meant to be a clean fight, no need to hit below the belt. They're ashamed enough about it, don't gotta rub it in their face all the time....

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm getting the popcorn, because murdoch's kids are fighting about newscorp and who is gonna control it. I think lachlan is in the lead atm?

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure whoever ends up in charge it'll definitely be an improvement......🙄

Heavy on the /S here

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

It surely can't be as bad as having rupe in charge? God, I will never forgive old rupe ruining the NBN :/ We could have had a MINIMUM 1Gbps! But no, fucking rupert ruined that shit. Fucking cunt.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

I mean, the shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree. Best anyone can hope for is that whoever it is....is an idiot and ruins the lot