[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[Dog Gone]

I've never heard of UKIP before. Steyn is so wonderfully informed on multiple countries.

[Canard]

That's a good analysis of the situation, not much I'd disagree with there.

[snowsislander]

It's true that many Britons seem to have less ready cash than other folks, but again that's not primarily a tax issue: the British spend more on accommodation and mortgages than their equivalents in other lands because the principal economic activity in the United Kingdom is selling undistinguished terraced houses back and forth to each other for ever more absurd six-figure sums.

This propensity for property speculation on the part of the Cousins has escaped just the Home Islands: the Japanese business newspaper the Nikkei recently had an article about the British Invasion of Orlando, Florida.

I did a search with "Orlando British mortgage", and here are some of the companies who specialize in lending to Brits using British mortgages on Orlando property:

http://www.orlandoholidayvillas.co.uk/mortgage/info.htm

http://britishhomesgroup.com/index.html

http://www.floridadreamvillas.net/mortgages.asp

[COUNTrecount]

Thanks.

[Malesherbes]

Thanks. I had been waiting to see what Mark Steyn thought of the election.

I lived in England for a year in the early 90's. One day on BBC I saw a "youth program" presided over by a West Indian lad with dirty fingernails and bad grammar punctuated by glottal stops. I thought then, "It's all over for Old Blighty."

[aculeus]

BTTT

[knighthawk]

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