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."
I don’t ‘call’ him a socialist, he is one.
But has Blair’s behaviour in UK office really been socialistic? If you think it has been, then what Western leader has been any less socialistic recently? For the party of the left in the UK he was just as tough on terrorism as your own, Republican, president for example. Margaret Thatcher, you will recall, was hardly one to mince her words. She seems delighted that the Old Labour of the left has moved to the centre ground in politics.
By your argument, Britain should surely have been in real trouble in 1950s,60s and 70s when Labour administrations were significantly more left-wing than today?
In these exchanges terms like ‘socialist’ erode to become generalised slogans of political abuse which lose all meaning. A socialist is one who believes in the state ownership and control of the means of production, distribution and exchange. By this definition Blair was not a socialist. Before he won the 1997 election, he fought to remove all commitment to state ownership from his party’s constitution on order to make it electable. On accession to power, not only did he fail to reverse the Thatcher and Major governments’ massive programme of privatization of public services, as previous Labour Prime Ministers, true socialists, would have done: he actually continued and extended it with enthusiasm, most notably in education, health and capital infrastructure projects. These are not the actions of a socialist, and because of them he was always loathed by the true socialists in the Labour Party (of which there are still many, although for the most part they keep their heads down). To believe Blair a socialist is completely to misunderstand the temper of British politics in the last decade.
“Cheers for the back-up. I am often astounded at all the claims on this board that ‘Britain is doomed’ etc. It really is nonsense.”
No problem. But the press & electronic media especially can be very powerful; you could get the wrong idea here, let alone 3000 miles away. IMO the UK press really are rubbish especially in comparison to foreign media on the internet.
You’re absolutely right. I can see why many people could achieve a very wrong impression given the UK press-particularly papers such as the Daily Mail. Perhaps they reflect the self-critical nature of the British people.
My oh my ,how good you are with words,but ONE TOWN???The same thing is happening in Blackburn,Oldham,Bradford,Burnley
Leeds,Manchester,Warrington,Wigan,Bolton and the list goes on.For God’s sake open your eyes man,the internet isn’t just for gawking at dirty pictures you know.I am now assuming you must live in the area due south of the Watford gap,known to the real folk as “The South”.Perhaps the muslim plague is not so prevalent in the riviera-ish southern and west country counties as Devon,Somerset,and oh so egg and cress sandwiches,clotted cream and a cracking good sunday afternoon cricket match Cornwall.But beware,soon
this ghettoising fungus will spread south lowering property values and before you can say Whiskey Tango Foxtrot you will be hearing the foul call to prayer wailing through the fair countryside.Back in about 1972 the National Front published a cartoon showing caricatured muslims saying “BEWARE!WE WANT YOUR JOBS,WE WANT YOUR HOMES,WE WANT YOUR COUNTRY!!!”How prophetic,Enoch was right and way before his time.
A similar situation is coming to America soon if the southern border is not closed. But our problem is, where do we go to from here? At least the Brits have a commonwealth of attractive nations they can escape to when things get too bad to bear in the home country.
I can't think of any other country that I would want to live in that would accept fleeing Americans, but if the US is swamped by Democrat-voting Hispanic socialists, and I believe the globalists in power in both parties are determined to make it happen regardless of what the American people want, the US will not be the same country that we have known and loved. The hundreds of thousands of Americans who have died defending America and it's unique people will have died in vain if the US becomes just another poverty stricken 3rd-world hellhole like Mexico and most of Latin America.
I sympathize with the dirt-poor, hard working Mexicans who are victimized and exploited by the fabulously wealthy elite 5% who run Mexico's corrupt government like a slavery era Louisiana sugar plantation, but how will lowering the living standards of the US to near the same abysmal level as Mexico's help either nation's poor and powerless? Mutual misery isn't any more bearable than solitary misery.
That's because Florida, where I was born and raised BTW, has been flooded with Hispanic immigrants for decades, and the flood tide is still on the incoming side of the ledger. (pardon the mixed metaphor. I'm grammar-challenged, as you can see)
FL was one of the first victims of unchecked immigration after Castro took over and became even less controlled when Castro exported his social misfits and hardened criminals to the US via the 1980 "Mariel boatlift", but it's immigration problem is now dwarfed by the totally out of control Mexican immigration monster that is eating the 4 US southern border states alive. At least FL got most of Cuba's most productive, talented, and conservative people at the beginning of the exodus when Castro took over, all we are getting from Mexico are apparently the poorest and least productive classes of it's medieval type feudal system.
Lots of people are moving to the Orlando area because Miami has become a Cuban town.
I have a sinking feeling it wont. We are all going to sit on our fat asses and watch it happen.
It is time to water the tree of liberty.
It doesn't. Blair was (is) such a political opportunist that he would accept the vice-presidency of the Girl Guides Association of Antarctica if he thought it would bring him political advantage. Blair also once belonged to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: but when in office he not only maintained Britain's nuclear deterrence capability, as one of his last acts he forced through (in the teeth of opposition from his own party) the renewal of the Trident ballistic missile system. It's what politicians do in power which shows their true political colours, not the institutions they inherited or the labels they attached to themselves on the way up. In the case of Blair, he spent his ten years in power consistently advancing the privatization of formerly public services. These, I repeat, were not the actions of a socialist. Ask any of the socialists in his own party if Blair was one of them, and the politest reply you'll get would be 'you must be joking'.
I suppose no one here other than me has had to share an elevator with these people?
I’m not blind to the problems you describe, and nobody who loves this country can afford to be complacent about them. But it’s a huge leap from recognising those problems to concluding that ‘Britain is doomed.’ For a start, the patriots among us (still, I believe, the majority) don’t share the defeatism that implies.
Precisely. You are absolutely correct. So, we have immigrants concentrated in a few towns (out of how many hundreds of thousands of towns and villages in the UK?). It still doesn’t alter the fact that Britain is 92.5% white and the vast majority of immigrants to the UK come here to work hard and are very loyal.
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