To think my friend was racist, rude or both?

You assume it’s that easy. Nowhere near as easy as being a citizen and costly to have to pay for a visa each time.

She was simply mirroring her friend’s bad manners.

I detest racist 'bluster' and threats from both Farage and Trump and stay clear of people who defend it being used agaisnt anyone not white enough.

Yes. It's expensive, especially if the whole family needs paying for.

Those well known criminals Rosie O' Donnell and Zohran Mamdani, among others whose views he doesn't like.
www.politico.com/news/2025/07/12/trump-revoke-citizenship-rosie-odonnell-00449920

But the uncertainty and stress will be untold, not to mention the money you would probably have to spend. It would be so dumb to be so complacent about anything in 2025 if you are paying any kind of attention to politics across the pond.

I would have said exactly the same about removing ILR - legally hard and politically infeasible. I didn't even imagine that Farage would go so far before the election, but he just came out with the announcement as if it was nothing.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he went down the route of removing citizenship from people in the future. Especially from those who were naturalised as adults or those who hold dual citizenship.

If you can take away indefinite leave to remain, you can take away citizenship. Our only hope is that the courts will find a way of blocking either.

Why would anyone care about basic manners towards a visitor who has just made a racist comment towards them in their own home? Surely normal manners are irrelevant at that point.

Many people would have simply asked the "friend" to leave. The OP took a more measured response and tried to gauge reactions from others before deciding how to proceed.

What is Englishness? Do people think Ian Wright isn't English because despite being born in England, he is black and his parents were born in Jamaica? What confers Englishness?

She could have been in bed?
When I have friends to stay we do have downtime when we might do some browsing or whatever anyway, it’s not necessarily rude. Plus it’s nowhere near as rude as suggesting OP, as a British Citizen, is only ‘fine’ because her husband is white British.

And what if Reform decides to strip them of their citizenship?
I'm a dual national (from birth, rather than through acquiring one citizenship) but the way the world is I'm definitely not giving up my non-UK citizenship.
I'm lucky in that neither of my citizenships make you choose: but some UK and other dual nationals who are born with both have to choose at 18. I'd hate to be in that position.

Because it's rude to be posting on social media when you have visitors. Basic manners.

Then add to that, posting about someone actually with you.

I was more thinking you'd wait till she'd gone to post.

That poster wasn't talking about "undocumented illegal migrants". By definition, no one has a definite figure for how many there are. What is known is that many arrived legally, so were documented, have overstayed their visas so are now undocumented. That poster was, deliberately, describing asylum seekers as "illegals" and won't or can't see that "undocumented" does not mean arriving on a boat without a passport. Despite being told repeatedly that it's not illegal to seek asylum and that, thanks to deliberate (Tory) policy, arriving by boat across the channel is now the only way to do it - she has a view on non-white people claiming asylum and it's racist.

"Too many are taking from the system and not contributing". Lack of funding for public services isn't because of the roughly 110,000 people currently waiting for their asylum application to be settled (and those who don't get asylum status are removed from the country). It's because of years of deliberate underfunding of services, predominantly by Tory govts. I'll put money on that poster voting for one or more of those govts. The dire state of public finances isn't because of "migrants" or "asylum seekers". It's because of short-termist UK govt policy, failure to effectively structure the economy, global factors which impact us - and Brexit, which is costing an estimated £40bn a year in lost tax revenues, and an overall hit of 4% of GDP (currently £100bn) a year. I'll put money on that poster being a Brexit voter, cos "sovereignty's worth the cost". And now the accurate forwarnings of what Brexit would mean are coming into operation and she is directly affected - she's blaming her choice on "illegals". By whom she means, non-white people, purely because of their non-whiteness. Racist.

Ironically - or perhaps absolutely par for the course - that poster is one of those who take from the system and contribute nothing. Her choice to have children. Her choice to sit on her backside for three years waiting for the council (aka taxpayers) to provide her with her dream house. Why isn't she supporting the children she chose to have herself? Because, if she's going to judge others on the basis of crass stereotypes and ill-informed generalisations, she should expect others to judge her in exactly the same way.

Multiple reasons: ease of visiting, they have assets there, may want to take extended trips, may want to / end up retiring there or simply want an easy escape plan if Britain turns into a fascist ethno state.

You can want to make somewhere your home but still not want to lose another citizenship.

And it won’t deal with issues as you cannot trust Reform not to simply cancel citizenship status of people they would rather not have here.

Why? Why should they need to especially if they do like to visit to see family and it may make a whole host of things difficult if they wish to visit / go on extended visits, have assets there or even wish to retire their decades down the line.

Ok. Your position is clear.
I continue to believe Reform voters are racist and this thread confirms it.

Exactly..On this very thread posters have gone from supposedly being only against illegal immigration to calling for legal ILR holders to jump through hoops and likely end up being chucked out.

Who earns £60k in the UK?
Just be honest and say you want all foreigners out.