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.

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

He doesn’t like immigrants, we’re English… … umm

Ireland has shitty phd programs

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

If only there was someplace closer

isn’t Australia just as bad if not worse?