There have been countless articles like this one in the UK press over the last few months. They are all sensationalist and deviod of fact and deliberately ignore other facts. Just a few points:
1)As britemp has noted, most emigrants return to the UK after a few years or less. We live in an age of mass migration and most Western countries are experiencing the same thing.
2)The article suggests that people are leaving the UK because of immigration (obviously the irony of them then being immigrants themselves doesn’t register). Britain is an overwhelmingly while, anglo-saxon country still. The notion that the threat of Islam is forcing people out is laughable. Muslims form 2% of the UK population and despite the tragic terror attacks on 7/7, the UK population faced a far larger threat in the face of Irish nationalists over the past few decades.
3)Many, many people emigrated from the UK in the 1960s (when according to papers such as the Daily Mail crime didn’t exist). They weren’t ‘fleeing’ anything, so why must modern emigrants be said to?
4)Crime in the UK and gang culture is a concern. However, these do not compare in any way to the levels of murder and gang warfare in some US cities. In many ways, the UK is just starting to develop elements of this culture (decades behind the US). This is not a criticism of the US, just an observation
‘We live in an age of mass migration and most Western countries are experiencing the same thing.’
Very true. In just the little island of Britain there are more than a quarter of a million American ex-pats living and when you ask them why they moved to Britain they invariably say because of US crime levels or President Bush! :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3956061.stm