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 less fucking their country up with something as bad as Brexit.

Waiting for Joanne Rowling to have a Kirk moment.

Any time now.

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.

While that's true, they at least don't have rampant gun violence or a government para-military gunning people down in the streets

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

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.

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

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.

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

How does that work? Aren't you still paying quite a bit of US taxes, and then also paying UK taxes?

Trig's aunt had more Yanks than Eisenhower.

You will keep being fed beans on toast until morale improves.

Guten tag!

Yes learn the language, come here and then watch it turn into a populist shit hole too. It's T minus two years...

This is 100% even though for all other languages the question would be “whose language do I speak…”!

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the original comment is talking about how the UK is pretty fascist and dystopian as well.

What about an exchange program? Maybe right wingers fear for their lives in the U.K.

If only there was someplace closer

isn't Australia just as bad if not worse?

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

Ireland has shitty phd programs

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

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

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.