[mewzilla]

Actually, I've been looking for an emigration figure for Yanks, but without much success. Best I've gotten so far is about 10,000 to Canada and 1,000 or so to Israel last year.

But it's not just how many are leaving, but who. If the people mentioned in the article are part of a brain drain leaving Britain, one that's not being replaced by new immigrants, higher immigration figs won't help the UK.

[britemp]

‘But it’s not just how many are leaving, but who. If the people mentioned in the article are part of a brain drain leaving Britain, one that’s not being replaced by new immigrants, higher immigration figs won’t help the UK.’

The people leaving are evenly split between people retiring and skilled workers such as plumbers and builders going to Australia. The incomers are mainly Polish and are either skilled workers like plumbers or builders and also significant numbers of Polish doctors, dentists and IT professionals.

Overall we seem to be doing quite well out of it.