Some 8,790 Americans sought citizenship in the UK, either through registration or naturalisation in 2025, according to Home Office data published Thursday.
Coming back home eh?
Why the fuck would anyone want to go to the UK? It is Trumpland, but with a accent.
We haven’t gone anywhere near being Trump land yet. And the Trump party (Reform) just got wrecked in an election yesterday.
Ironically the only reform supporter I encountered is my brother in Australia.
He doesn’t like immigrants, we’re English… … umm
Especially when Ireland is right there!
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
Because most Americans can only speak English. And Australia is really far away.
isn’t Australia just as bad if not worse?
They just banned corporations from donating to politicians. So. Maybe not really. They also don’t have a trump.
but they do have a Murdoch…
and a NSW…
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…
If only there was someplace closer
I think people don’t like the cold.
Remigration!
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.
Waiting for Joanne Rowling to have a Kirk moment.
Any time now.
Seems like trading one shitty situation for another, UK’s government is fucked too, isn’t it?
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.
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?
It doesn’t allow residence in the “British Isles”. It would however allow residence in Ireland.
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.
Move to Spain and settle in Germany or Finland?
Are you some sort of sadist?
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
Isn’t the UK also having it’s own right wing problems?
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.
How does that work? Aren’t you still paying quite a bit of US taxes, and then also paying UK taxes?
The two have a taxation agreement, you only pay tax in one of them. So far, so good.
Bluuudy yanks takin me job…
Trig’s aunt had more Yanks than Eisenhower.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
I’m guessing none of these Americans are trans.
By making the move they would by definition be trans.
Transatlantic.
