Posted on 07/30/2007 10:37:03 AM PDT by pacelvi
UK Citizens Abandoning the UK in Greater Numbers
July 25, 2007 - Press Dispensary - Increasing numbers of people are taking the decision to move overseas as a result of the UK’s current immigration policy, according to www.globalvisas.com, a specialist immigration consultancy that provides immigration advice and visa services.
As numbers of immigrants to the UK from the new European Union Accession states continue to grow, more and more people in the UK are choosing to take their experience and skills overseas.
The consultancy caters for immigrants to the UK as well as British people who wish to emigrate to the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or South Africa. After more than 12 years in its field, the company has recorded an increase in the number of non-EU and low skilled EU A8 citizens coming to the UK over recent years, and is now seeing a dramatic increase in British people applying to leave the UK.
Director Liam Clifford says: "Since January 2007, we have recorded an 80% rise in British nationals applying to move overseas. As this rise continues, so does the number of enquiries we receive from people asking for help in migrating to a new country. In recent months, we have received as many as 4,000 requests in a single week from people who have had enough of Britain and want to get out."
He adds: "Ironically, the main reason for these people leaving the UK is the over-stretching of services caused by inbound immigration to the UK. We are aware of the issue of so-called ‘white flight’ from certain inner city areas to the suburbs but now people are increasingly seeking a better standard of living offered by other countries.
"This phenomenon adds to the existing shortage of skilled workers already faced by the UK as they leave only to be replaced by low skilled EU A8 workers or low skilled refugees."
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Citizens Flee the UK in Droves America take heed. For us there will be nowhere to run. It is essential we must learn from Europe's disastrous mistakes. Not later. NOW. Don't fool yourself into believing their immigration situation is different than ours, cuz it aint.
Michel, our French man on the street, sent me this article and added, "it's the same old song in France."
I have a feeling vigilantism will become popular here.
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There goes the neighborhood...
Hey, I thought only those racist Americans did that kind of thing.
Sounds like what has been happening in Los Angeles for years now...
Britain has FREE HEALTH CARE!!!
I think we live in an age of global mass migration now. The people that I know who are leaving the UK are doing so simply because they can afford better housing in places such as Australia. They don’t have any problems with all the new Eastern Europeans moving to the UK.
Yeah and the former US city of Miami. Was down there in Florida last year and went into a major cellular retail store and could not conduct business because I did not speak spanish. I kid you not!
We must be witnessing the future of the US. No one wants to stay where they are being overrun by immigrants.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. It seems the new, trendy thing to do is buy a home in Spain or Australia where the housing is cheaper and the weather far better.
This thing is also happening in Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, Sweden.
Anyone who is smart and has the means is leaving Europe. Meanwhile, the Moozlims are multiplying like rabbits (and staying on Welfare).
The EUtopians thought the Muslims would be the workforce the EUtopians aborted away, instead the Muslims are just as much of a drag on the economy as the old people they were supposed to be paying taxes to support.
Catastrophe is coming.
Sounds like California.
I know my experiences there can't be applied to illegal immigration here (Polish and Czech citizens can legally live and work in Ireland) but I wonder how bad it can be in the UK with citizens of newly admitted EU countries.
I recently met a lady from Britain who immigrated here about 8 yrs ago. She just got back from a trip to visit family and said......wow, she will never go back. Her sister is trying to immigrate to Australia now for the same reasons.
They are fed up.
And I bet nobody ever asked the Brits if they wanted that level of immigration. I know nobody ever asked ME if I wanted LA to turn into Tijuana North.
I know several folks that traded up also.
My acquaintances just moved to a different neighborhood though.
Moving 8000 miles never entered their minds.
The UK compounds the problem of unchecked muslim immigration by not allowing firearms in the hands of citizens so they can protect themselves from the rampant crime wave engulfing Britain. Lots of good stuff to see as a tourist, but your risking your life setting foot in the place.
Most immigration to the UK is from catholic Eastern European countries. Proportionate to the US, our immigration levels are still quite low. For example, we have never had shop telephone services offering foreign language options (like with Spanish in the US). I’m (reasonably) smart and have the means to the leave the UK, but I have no intention of doing so. Good luck to people emigrating to places such as Spain and Australia and New Zealand-but they are doing it for the sun and financial reasons. It would hardly be patriotic to leave your country because immigration to Britain has increased (relatively) in recent years. If people were leaving for those sorts of reasons, you’d have to question their loyalty and worth to the UK anyway.
I was born and raised there.
Left in 1984. Best move I ever made.
Couldn't pay me enough to move back.
Well, British people have a history of moving to other Commonwealth countries for a better standard of living. In the 1960s many left for Australia. The standard of living in the UK is often lower than these countries. But I’m proud to be British and will never my country.
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