To be fair. The 2024 UK election was a massive exercise in tactical voting in a desperate push to Get Out the Tories. Many of us - even me - had to hold our noses and vote for someone we didn't really want to win. (I voted for Starmer. That turned out to be a bigger mistake than expected.)
Turns out not holding your nose and trying to stay true to your anti-Brexit/join stance by voting LD turned into a disappointment, too. Cf: recent LD 90/180d idiocy and continued EU bashfulness
I've lost faith completely. We're stuck in a country doomed to be a backwater because it suits our politicians to have more personal power in a diminished state. They'll keep promising nirvana and keep failing to deliver, brexit guarantees that.
Well, yeah - that's why I emigrated. Not going to give up entirely, got family, but I've made sure that if politicians and the electorate refuse to come to their senses, I won't be in the line of fire of what follows. In times of hardship, presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
Discussed this with Mrs Eoin yesterday. Seeing family (kids) is the only reason to stay.
My remaining close family have already left, so I only have family on the level of cousins, and friends, left in the UK. So the choice wasn't too hard.