Emigration Soars As Britons Desert UK

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-15-2007 | Philip Johnson

[SolidWood]

Leaving a sinking ship. The smart leave in face of Islam, the brave stay and fight.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yet another article proving what I said earlier about the current orwellian state of Britain driving out people who actually want freedom instead of 24-7 house arrest and surveillance.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Sir Simon Milton, chairman of the Local Government Association, said the Government had no clear idea of where all the immigrants were going and their impact on services.

Uncle Miltie must have chromosomal damage. I would imagine just about every immigrant knows exactly where to go and what services they want.

[Jacquerie]

In this entire article about UK demographics, did I miss mention of Muslim immigration?

[mtg]

From England to Spain. Better learn how to talk Socialism in Spanish.

[alloysteel]

There is a distinction between being smart, and being brave.

Of the British subjects (not citizens, there is a difference) leaving Great Britain, what proportion are of “Other than White”, and what proportion are of ancestral Briton stock?

[RightWhale]

Only the most recent exodus. Been going on in a major way since 1620, probably even before that.

[river rat]

It must not be permitted to speculate on WHY the English are leaving England..

Could it be that the Turd World immigrants have reached a level to have literally changed the nation for the worse?

[SolidWood]

It’s the British (white) Brits leaving while it’s mainly Muslims coming to Britain. Obviously the latter causes the first.

[Rummyfan]

Let’s see... no guns, soaring property crime, a lackadaisical attitude towards punishing criminals, restive immigrant populations, punitive tax rates, and a national health service that is in serious disrepair. Why would anyone want to leave?

[uncbob]

I wonder how many are liberals fleeing what they helped cause
(just like the libs fleeing California and voting for the democrats in their new states)

[kimoajax]

Oh Britannia, Britannia rules...I mean sinks beneath the waves..of immigration.

[AnAmericanMother]

[68skylark]

Your comment doesn’t explain why people would move from the UK to Spain or France. It’s hard for me to understand the appeal of that kind of move — I guess the cost of living would be lower, but things like taxes and economic opportunities have got to be worse, and the Islamic problem is just as real in these countries.

[BenLurkin]

Day is ended, dim my eyes,
But journey long before me lies.
Farewell, friends! I hear the call.
The ship’s beside the stony wall.
Foam is white and waves are grey;
beyond the sunset leads my way.
Foam is salt, the wind is free;
I hear the rising of the sea.

Farewell, friends! The sails are set,
the wind is east, the moorings fret.
Shadows long before me lie,
beneath the ever-bending sky,
but islands lie behind the Sun
that i shall raise ere all is done;
lands there are to west of West,
where night is quiet and sleep is rest.

Guided by the Lonely Star,
beyond the utmost harbour-bar,
I’ll find the heavens fair and free,
and beaches of the Starlit Sea.
Ship my ship! I seek the West,
and fields and mountains ever blest.
Farewell to Middle-earth at last.
I see the star above my mast!

[SolidWood]

Regarding France, it’s mainly retired Britons moving to the Bretagne part of Northern France. It’s their version of Florida retirement paradise. Same with Spain, where they are moving mainly to the sunny islands.

[Andrew Byler]

“Camp of the Saints” in slow motion.

[akorahil]

Hey, thanks for that Tolkein poem! There was one Briton who would never have left.

[Andrew Byler]

why people would move from the UK to Spain or France

R-E-T-I-R-E-M-E-N-T I-N T-H-E S-U-N

You know, like New Yorkers moving to Florida, or Midwesterners to Phoenix and San Diego.