4,000 PEOPLE A WEEK TRYING TO LEAVE UK

[Contrary1]

I'm curious...does anybody know how many Americans are bailing?

BRITAIN is facing a mass exodus of people looking to escape the crime and grime of modern living.

"The country’s biggest foreign visa consultancy firm has revealed that applications have soared in the last seven months by 80 per cent to almost 4,000 a week. Ten years ago the figure was just 300 a week. Most people are relocating within the Commonwealth – in Australia, Canada and South Africa. They are almost all young professionals and skilled workers aged 20-40.

And many cite their reason for wanting to quit as immigration to these shores – and the burden it is placing on their communities and local authorities. The dearth of good schools, spiralling house prices, rising crime and tax increases are also driving people away.

Obtaining a visa to live abroad can cost as little as £1,500 for the right candidates. Plumbers, electricians, construction workers and doctors are famously in demand. The only obstruction to emigration from the UK is a criminal record, poor health, advancing age and being a “third country national”.

Liam Clifford, a former immigration control officer, set up globalvisas.com as a one-man band 12 years ago. He now employs 60 people and is in the process of opening new offices in both South Africa and Australia. Mr Clifford said: “It’s absolutely phenomenal. People are trying to get away to wherever they can, and most are successful..."


http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/15642/4,000-people-a-week-trying-to-leave-UK

[SoCalDem]

1. So.. they are going to a different country where THEY will be seen as "job stealers"

and housing price "driver-uppers":rofl:

Ask Seattleites how much they like Californiacs who fled there in droves and jacked up the housing costs..and clogged their highways:)

[Amonester]

3. It's jobs-are-a-plentiful bonanza in Canada these days...

... so much so, that there is a big "shortage" of qualified workers in many sectors.

Baby-boomers are about to retire all at once. Many businesses neglected to prepare for that since 1993...

Go figure.

[Greeby]

2. The Daily Express = right-wing, foam-at-the-mouth horseshit

It often devotes it's frontpage to stories which treat Diana's death like the Kennedy assasination. As if that's somehow relevant to people in this country

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Let's see, at 4,000 people a week, the UK will be uninhabited

in 214 years!

[Nevernose]

9. Oh, it will still be inhabited.

Just inhabited by muslims and negros, or, god forbid, muslim negros.

(I hate to have to put a sarcasm tag on this, but here goes: :sarcasm:)

[nolabels]

20. With global warming weren't them Islands going to be underwater by then anyway?

Never could figure out why we had all them English (U.K. type) announcers on the radio and such or even what they were doing over here in the U.S. but now i know.


To lump poor urban planing in with racism seems a bit of a jump. Perhaps they should broaden those young folks education. Sending people in fancy schools who are training in architecture, civil engineering or such (or maybe even the people who have a hand in drawing up zoning maps) out to live with the poor folks even just for a little while. Those folks with lower material means also don't just live in the big locales, they are everywhere. Perhaps being the 'well to do' is actually the disease even :shrug:

[GregD]

5. ok, so the wife has been talking about splitting...

But I really don't know where the hell we'd go. Not that I'd leave, ya understand. I think it is more in my nature to confront the bastards and hold my ground until we win or die trying. But where does one go where there is a good climate (so to speak) in terms of weather, Yanks being welcome, and so on.

[Beerboy]

18. Outside of the Pentagon,

can you think of a place where Yanks are welcome? I can't. I've been to Germany and France, and speak their languages, albeit with my stupid American accent, and once people knew I was an American they were much less than friendly.
Thank god or whatever for slutty Eurobabes for an excuse to exit, but it's no wonder the US is being called on the carpet for initiating a religious war of extermination against Islam. America has no justification for committing genocide against 1.3 billion Muslims.

[lovuian]

6. America will see it too Its mass exodus

when a country turns like Britain into a police state people leave in droves

[Nevernose]

10. Except we don't have an empire to run to, do we?

Other than Guam or Puerto Rico or some of the Virgin Islands...

Hell, the way things are going here, I'm thinking about applying for a job in England, and not because of the dastardly immigrants (as an American, I know more about dealing with immigrants than the entire rest of the world combined), but because -- police state and all -- the English still have some semblance of sanity about them.

[Beerboy]

7. Awww, the UK is 'losing' it's version of freepers'n'skinheads.

I'm sure patriotic Britons are crying in their fish' n' chips.

[Posteritatis]

8. Many != all

And might not necessarily even be most. Remember that Britain hasn't exactly had the most enlightened and compassionate leadership for the last few years either.

[Beerboy]

13. People define enlightened and compassionate differently, to be sure,

but apparently Britain's greedy can somehow legally bail. I don't know the first thing about the UK's tax codes and their legal relationship to the erstwhile Commonwealth (dissolved in 1967, I believe) but does a UK emigre skate on their tax liabilities?
The article doesn't mention a political motive on the part of those leaving other than to deny that 'they're not racist'. If they weren't racist, the thought would never have occurred to them in the first place.
Britannia is 'losing' it's greedy racist fuck-heads, boo fuckin hoo.

[Posteritatis]

15. So all 4000-a-week of 'em are leaving 'cause they're greedy bigots?

I seem to recall problems with education, housing, and crime, to say nothing of opportunities abroad, showing up in the thing.

You can, of course, fixate on the immigration complaints as though the emigres are a monolith if you'd like, but you should at least exchange the paint roller for a mere broad brush.

[Beerboy]

17. Sorry I wasn't able to respond timely, but yes,

the article clearly indicates that it's the greedy hoarder racist whites fleeing the UK, as the guy that set up this agency quoted some whites denying they were racists.
Your second point is somewhat obscure in meaning to me, are you saying the refugees coming into Britain are a monolith, or are the emigres? By race? I really don't understand your second point as it relates to the supposed outsourcing from the UK of greedy white bigot Britons trying to chuck their obligations to Her Majesty's Exchequer. YMMV.

[Nevernose]

11. Oliver's Army Is Here to Stay

Don't start me talking
I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I'm putting the world to right
Called careers information
Have you got yourself an occupation?


Oliver's army is here to stay
Oliver's army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

There was a checkpoint Charlie
He didn't crack a smile
But it's no laughing party
When you've been on the murder mile

Only takes one itchy trigger
One more widow, one less white nigger



Hong Kong is up for grabs
London is full of Arabs
We could be in Palestine
Overrun by a Chinese line
With the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne

But there's no danger
It's a professional career
Though it could be arranged
With just a word in Mr. Churchill's ear

If you're out of luck or out of work
We could send you to Johannesburg

[T_i_B]

12. Does this mean...

...that the Daily Express is going to stop moaning about immigrants then?

[treestar]

14. Is this the international version of "white flight?"

I suppose the U.S. doesn't mind taking some of them. After all, they are white, and they speak English. Haven't heard too many complaints lately about British or other Europeans "stealing our jobs." And the irony is, they would be the ones who would.

Or all the talk about migrating to Canada - I don't see there any hesitation to steal the Canadians' jobs.

[Beerboy]

16. Yeah, it's racist white flight;

the article doesn't specifically state that it's all greedy rich white bigots fleeing from refugees in so many words, but the point is taken. The article also mentions that these people aren't coming to the USA, but to former Commonwealth like Canada, Oz, NZ, SA, etc. Thank whatever these fuckers aren't coming to the USA. I'll be listening for it and query them about how long they've been here and their status. If America has to persecute Mexicans, it has to persecute white Britons as well. Equality before the Law, that's what America's all about.

[Eurobabe]

19. they're also bailing to the Continent, er Old Europe

notice lots of Brits here lately, with their drive on the left cars (with EU tags, so not just vacationers). My kids just came back from London and they said it has changed drastically since the last time they were there in 2001.

Too bad.