Some 8,790 Americans sought citizenship in the UK, either through registration or naturalisation in 2025, according to Home Office data published Thursday.
Seems like trading one shitty situation for another, UK’s government is fucked too, isn’t it?
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.
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.
It doesn’t allow residence in the “British Isles”. It would however allow residence in Ireland.
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 believe it’s spelled “innit”
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.
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.
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”.
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.
Can confirm, I cut my salary in half to escape
My only option is arguably worse than the US. Only positive is that I could go to the beach more.
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.
Ngl if China was an actual democracy, I would probably about trying to keep Chinese citizenship…
but unfortunately there’s a CCP problem there and I hate them so that’s not an option for me.
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….
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.
Plus they’re only half a step behind on the bigotry, surveillance, and fascism anyway.
They have always been fascist and they are way ahead in laws restricting rights.
I think the guy that was pretending to be pro-genocide and watching his friends be arrested for protesting Israel about summed it up for me. Genocide okay, anti-genocide not okay in the UK.
I think though they are less racist. They have that going for them.
They’re so Racist that during the whole Brexit shitshow racism towards other Europeans became pretty overt at all levels.
Also having lived in Britain and with friends which unlike me didn’t look like the locals, I heard lots of stories from them about being discriminated against in Britain and even have one myself (you could tell I was not a local if I spoke, since my accent wasn’t any of the local ones).
Whilst Britain is good at image management, what’s under that carefully cultivated image is quite a lot darker.
Waiting for Joanne Rowling to have a Kirk moment.
Any time now.
While that’s true, they at least don’t have rampant gun violence or a government para-military gunning people down in the streets
Having lived in Britain during the time of the Referendum and seen all of that shitshow first hand, I would say that Brexit is the product of British Politics having been taken over by the local version of MAGA (so, less loud and obnoxious, more posh sleaze).
This was to the point that they even had a Trump lookalike called Boris Johnson.
Isn’t the UK also having it’s own right wing problems?
You know the US is a real shthole when people decide to move to the UK, which also is a shthole lol
Luckily Americans don’t speak any foreign languages so rest of Europe is safe.
The ones who can afford to move are the ones that statistically be more likely to speak more than one language. Learning German myself to add to my pile.
Guten tag!
Mein leben!
Guten morgen.
Scheisse!
Einen großen schwarzen Kaffee, bitte.
It’s the only sentence I know and, honestly, it seems to work well in most situations.
Shouldn’t that be ‘Kaffees’? or “Eine grosse schwarze Kafee”?
Do you always end up with filter coffee when saying this?
Das ist nicht kaffe…
Yes learn the language, come here and then watch it turn into a populist shit hole too. It’s T minus two years…
Or gets the ones who do speak at least one foreign language, which aren’t going to be the close-minded kind that thinks everything that matters starts and stops with America, so that’s also good.
Not really. Thankfully it takes a bit of brains to make the move, so the world gets the USAs best.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
He told LBC last week that Zionism wasn’t racist, and that it was just Netanyahu making it racist.
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.
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.
Coming back home eh?
Why UK though? They want to be in the next populist shit hole?
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?”
They speak English in populist shit hole?
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?
Imagine.
USonians immigrating into the UK.
Let’s hope they respect the tea.
They’re gonna be disappointed when british police arrests them for wrongthink on twitter
Well… at least they aren’t getting shot and killed by the police.
Probably not the people who are affected the most by their government.
