Eva Vlaardingerbroek
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And, you know, now because of Brexit, Europeans have to apply for an ETA as when we go to America, we have to apply for an ESTA, right?
And this was approved back in September within minutes.
Like, I just got it.
No problems, no questions asked.
And now...
Out of the blue, as I said, I received that email saying they revoked it.
And I'm not traveling to the United Kingdom anytime soon.
I didn't book any tickets to fly there.
So the only thing that I could think about was that I said what I said about Keir Starmer.
I still stand by it, by the way, just three days before they informed me of that decision.
So, I mean, it's really hard not to connect the dots there.
And it's also very much in line with his track record.
And I suppose it proves my point, you know, that the UK is on a path to become a very unfree country where dissident voices are criticized.
People are thrown in jail.
And obviously, I'm not a citizen of the United Kingdom, so they can't do that to me.
But this is something that they can do, apparently.
I mean, in the UK, this is the definition of a totalitarian state, right?
This is the definition of a dictatorship in the sense that you are apparently not allowed to criticize its supreme leader without having your freedoms limited.
And this is quite a severe limitation of my freedom in the sense that I was given no due process.
I was not given a warning.