AFAIK UK people have always been able to use BC until recently. Even when the official "bc.game" url was blocked, there were mirror sites like hash.game that still worked. 1 by 1 they were removed though, so now UK players can longer play on BC unless via vpn.

As someone else has mentioned though, their scam list is growing more and more - and I know from personal experience that they are kyc heavy now which is a shame.