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Mr. Redwood is a Conservative Party MP in England, and he's lamenting what's happening to his country. More and more Brits, especially the English, are getting fed up and just leaving. He's referencing a news item about record number of Britons abandoning the UK and moving abroad. Its a stunning turn of events, and one has to wonder if it could happen here.
1 posted on 11/16/2007 3:58:08 PM PST by DesScorp
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My financial planning is adapting to the very real possibility that my children should have the financial wherewithal to leave the US.

Its too late for me, and I’m not leaving outside of a box anyway.

2 posted on 11/16/2007 4:01:09 PM PST by bill1952 ("all that we do is done with an eye towards something else." - Aristotle)
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MUSLIMS!

I didn’t read the article but MUSLIMS are scaring native Brits away. I heard this first hand. The UK down plays this and the THREATS there that are ON GOING.

3 posted on 11/16/2007 4:01:38 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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I heard someone from the UK say a lot of the people leaving are immigrants. That was a couple of months ago either somewhere in this forum or in another forum.


4 posted on 11/16/2007 4:02:18 PM PST by Duke Nukum (He burns at the center of time and he sees the turn of the Universe.)
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Just for the sake of discussion....where would us conservative Americans Move?

I can’t find anyplace thats safe.


5 posted on 11/16/2007 4:03:21 PM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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Down here in Florida, the ex-Brits you talk to will say “the weather” if you ask them why they left.


6 posted on 11/16/2007 4:03:35 PM PST by Armando Guerra
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Its a stunning turn of events, and one has to wonder if it could happen here.

Are you kidding? Americans would stay and fight, just like the Americans before them did.

7 posted on 11/16/2007 4:03:41 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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George Orwell


10 posted on 11/16/2007 4:04:44 PM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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Its a stunning turn of events, and one has to wonder if it could happen here.

What?

And just where do you suggest we move?

11 posted on 11/16/2007 4:06:35 PM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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It can be argued that they are doing as they always have.

They are leaving the home islands for Empire countries. there have always been tons of expats in Africa and India and other colonial countries.


12 posted on 11/16/2007 4:07:04 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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Its a stunning turn of events, and one has to wonder if it could happen here.

I thought all that stuff was already happening here, except people haven't started fleeing yet.

identity assaulted . . . check.

democratic views ignored . . . check.

pockets and purses rifled by the state . . . check.

opinions criticised or banned . . . check and check (CFR)

public services we do wish to use run incompetently or rationed for us given away to illegal aliens . . . check.

13 posted on 11/16/2007 4:07:18 PM PST by FoxInSocks
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Easy one....(not in any order)

1. Weak government (eg pandering to Muslim radicals)
2. Taxation
3. Socialism

....and the effects thereof.


14 posted on 11/16/2007 4:09:43 PM PST by EagleUSA
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English people leaving home?
 

15 posted on 11/16/2007 4:10:11 PM PST by Radix (If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.)
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Where would we go? Costa Rica?


16 posted on 11/16/2007 4:11:29 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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I’ve been expecting European white flight ever since I began researching Islamofascism and especially after reading Mark Steyn’s America Alone.

Redwood’s list is telling, but I wonder what the Europeans will try to do to the US.

Will they be more American than Americans, much like Mel Gibson and Russell Crowe are when compared to our homegrown Hollyweirdos? Or will they act out and lecture us to live under the failing ideologies they left?


18 posted on 11/16/2007 4:15:25 PM PST by Psychic Dice (ArtOfPsychicDice.com)
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and one has to wonder if it could happen here.

Where could we go that would be any better? And where are the Brits going besides here?

21 posted on 11/16/2007 4:18:19 PM PST by no more apples (Go Pats! 9-0)
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Check out this... predict more UK citizens will hit the road with this BS...

London Mayor calls for Press to rethink Islam

A NEW survey commissioned by the London Mayor has concluded that the media sees no common ground between Islam and the West, and that conflict between them is ‘inevitable’...

He NEEDED a survey for this happy fact???

24 posted on 11/16/2007 4:24:22 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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I think they’re leaving because of all the bad food.


27 posted on 11/16/2007 4:26:48 PM PST by doctor noe
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bump


35 posted on 11/16/2007 4:37:13 PM PST by VOA
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England should be in the dictionary as the definition of the phrase “Self-Inflicted Wound”. Were there only 6 popular movements advocating the following in England, 90% of their problems would be gone in short order:

1) Repeal gun control. Any citizen not convicted of a felony may have a gun for their personal protection, or to be used to stop a criminal act.

2) Restore the death penalty for cases of aggravated murder. Once guilty of murder, the convicting jury will be the sole issuer of the death penalty. Sentence may only be overturned by pardon or commutation of the Prime Minister or the royal person.

3) Non-citizens who commit criminal acts will be automatically deported to their nation of citizenship when their sentence has been fulfilled.

4) Three strikes and you’re out law.

5) Tent prisons will be erected in rural parts of England for any prisoners over the maximum held in brick prisons. There will be no early release for overcrowding.

6) A prohibition against any international or EU treaty that would restrict either Common Law or “The Rights of Free-Born Englishmen.”


36 posted on 11/16/2007 4:37:19 PM PST by Popocatapetl
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Its a stunning turn of events, and one has to wonder if it could happen here.

It could. I know some who've already left the US (presumably) never to return, and others considering same. And none are liberal wackos.

Just watch out for that ex-pat-tax Congress passed ca. 1996.

49 posted on 11/16/2007 5:38:45 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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