I’m feeling an urgent need to make an escape-from-the-UK plan in the increasingly likely event that the far right gains power in the next few years. The most upsetting thing is that the same people stripped me of my rights to do so with #Brexit. Now the only people that can easily emigrate are the very wealthy.

This is why I will never ever stop being furious about Brexit. I never lose sight of what I personally lost on that day.

#ukpol #farage #ReformUK #farright #scotland #uk

@flup @cstross

And many previously decent destinations are now or are threatening to be just as bad. (Looks over shoulder at the Trump regime...)

@danmcd @cstross pfff USA is blacklisted indefinitely as far as I’m concerned

@flup @cstross

And who can blame you? I sure can't.

@flup @cstross

I swear we (in the US) are living the backstory of Allen Steele's "Coyote" books.

@danmcd @cstross I don’t get this reference but I’m assuming it’s apt ❤️

@flup @cstross

Very. The novella-turned-Coyote-first-section "Stealing Alabama" was written not long before the beginning of Bush-the-younger's presidency. It imagined a RWNJ "United Republic of America" (one star in the flag), with breakaway nations "Pacifica" (US West coast), and "The Commonwealth of New England".

The URA poured money into a longshot interstellar sleeper craft, which actually worked, but not before its crew declared independence from the URA. A LOT more ensues.