England is giving away what could never been stolen from them... their LAND, and their PEOPLE!!!
Posted on 08/05/2007 9:58:13 AM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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.
“Ironically, one of the main reasons for leaving is the overstretch of services due to increasing immigration into the UK. People are looking for the better standard of living offered by other countries, as even the most idyllic villages in Britain are under pressure from rising populations Skilled labour is obviously an advantage, but so is speaking the English language. Most countries are harder to get into if you don’t speak English. UK plc simply isn’t fighting hard enough to keep its people. Some are telling us they are fed up with living in this country. Even business people are saying they’ve had enough.
“They’re saying ‘I can’t put my children into the right school, but if I move abroad I can’. Most people are very patriotic and don’t want to leave. They’re almost terrified about it. But they say they just have to.
“It’s a shame people at the top don’t recognise they’re not doing enough to retain highly skilled workers in this country. A lot of them are quite young, and they’re not idle. They just can’t see a future for themselves in this country. They want to get married and settle down and buy homes, but they can’t see it happening here.
“And time and time again they are saying to us they don’t want to be seen as racist because they are quitting because of immigration. We tell them of course they’re not.”
According to the most recent Office of National Statistics figures, in 2005 the official number of people leaving UK shores was 352,000 – up from 249,000 in 1995. The majority – around 150,000 – migrated from London and the south east.
Among those who headed out were Simon Blood, 26, and Rachel Roberts, 23, who moved to Australia four months ago. The couple, from Stoke-on-Trent, are loving their new life in far north Queensland so much that they’ve decided it’s permanent.
Apart from family, football and a few television programmes, there’s nothing they miss about home. Embracing the warmest winter they’ve ever known – averaging 24C daily – both relish the commute to work which takes just five minutes, leaving plenty of time for walks on the beach.
Simon, a marketing executive, and Rachel, a nurse, followed their dream after seeing a newspaper advertisement for nursing recruits Down Under.
“It all went very smoothly,” said Simon. “It’s beautiful here and we’ve no plans to go back for good.”
Britain and Europe are doomed.
Australia seems the best bet.
They would be welcome in the USA, but they’d have to be able to speak Spanish/s
I stopped reading right there.
Apparently, "modern living" is now the euphemism de jour for savage, murdering, ignorant two-legged animals cutting swaths of mayhem and murder through all Western societies.
Just saying.
no they would not be welcomed here in the U.S., they have to be an illegal alien from Mexico or S. A. to be accepted here.
Keep Smiling
Philip.
Mark Steyn called it. Europe is in serious trouble.
I agree if the Brit’s don’t stand up and take their country back from the muslims.
really sad. We have to start up the Crusades again. Unfortunately I dont’ think this nation has the backbone for it.
Lolololol...
Enoch Powell had it right forty years ago.
Exactly.
Our friends came here from England in ‘98, for similar reasons. He’s been on a work visa in an IT position. They’ve been struggling for years to get through the bureacratic nightmare of our immigration process. It took until a few months ago to clear the Dept of Labor, which now permits them to apply for a green card. In the meantime, he remains locked in with a single employer, the kids grow up, and neither the teenagers nor the wife are allowed to seek employment to help save for college. Unfortunately, the US has not been extending the welcome mat to educated European immigrants in recent years.
More proof that unchecked anti-western culture immigration leads to the death of liberty and democratic ideals of any free nation. There really is a ‘dark side’ and the emergence of the islamist death cult masquerading as ‘the oppressed’ proves it.
The last thing we need in the US are a bunch of UK and EU ex-pats.
If you live in a state where you’re being overrun with California liberals fleeing the results of their past political choices, as we are here in NV, you know what I’m talking about.
These immigrants show up in a conservative state (or country, in the case of the US) and immediately start trying to turn their new home into what they just left.
No, the UK ex-pats, with their penchant for multiculturalism and gun control, can go elsewhere.
“And time and time again they are saying to us they don’t want to be seen as racist because they are quitting because of immigration. We tell them of course they’re not.”
This quote says it all. People are so afraid of being called racist that they would rather run away from their country than fight the cause of the problem that makes them want to leave in the first place.
We only extend the “welcome mat” to ignorant, unskilled, disease ridden, non english speaking, third world peasants. After all, it wouldn’t be very diverse of us to welcome english speaking, skilled, healthy people from a similar culture.
Who can blame them.
Very funny, but unfortunately too close to the truth.
“Press 1 for English” soon to be replaced by “Pulsar 2 para Ingles”.
multiculturalism is such a beautiful thing.
If they’re trying to get away from crime, then South Africa is definitely the wrong place to go.
“More proof that unchecked anti-western culture immigration leads to the death of liberty and democratic ideals of any free nation.”
The OBL’s must surely have a death wish for our way of life.
Either that or they are just criminally greedy.
I heard that there were 15,000 Brits a month leaving and moving to other countries.
My friend showed me the Air Pakistan 747 coming in to Manchester airport every morning with another load of Paki Muslims. Whole sections of towns there are Muslim with them all in their native costumes.
Thanks for the opening.
What is remarkable is that everything still applies, 40 years later, and the same lame rebuttal remains "Racism!"
Thousands fleeing? Reads rather like Michigan except we can't sell our homes.
England is giving away what could never been stolen from them... their LAND, and their PEOPLE!!!
there is no place to run to, the third world is the fastest growing population. Stand and fight or we will lose forever.
Resembles a refugee (purge).
ping
Yet - the Brits allow every manner of lunatic, leach and unskilled imbecile from the Turd World to enter the U.K. and get on the Dole -- while the bastards protest and commit crimes against the U.K.....
Until the current Jihad is ended......Muslims should be barred from entry into ANY country outside their Islamic "paradise"...
Saudi Arabia's laws call for the DEATH PENALTY for any NON Muslim entering their Holy Sites......
It seems appropriate that we simply require them to STAY IN PLACE until they can demonstrate they have learned to "play nice" and "behave".......
What happened to the men and women of the old UK. The kind of people that believed in fighting for their country. The ones that if alive today would not stand for all this Muslim crap taking over their country. Look at right here at FR at the Conservatives on here that want to fight back, that do what we can to fight back, that love our country so much and are outraged at the changes we have seen. Are we leaving or staying? I think we are staying to take a stand.
Like I said just curious, but for me I prefer men and women in my life that will fight back.
“..the US has not been extending the welcome mat to educated European immigrants in recent years.”
This is done intentionally in order to destroy the western image that the US once had. In order to satisfy the globalists we must become a turd world nation.
Australia has become more and more of a desirable place to go to permanently to our two sons who are degreed engineers.
Yes, But WHEN?
Bingo.
We have a winner
I saw this quote today, and changed my tag line to match.
“The measure of a country is not how many people are wanting to come in, but how many want to leave.”
BBC says there are 16,000 home grown Muslim radicals capable of terrorist acts in UK alone.
Send em to Canada, they r building a Islamic terrorist network to attack the USA,making it impossible for canucks to think theyr safe from jihad.
Can you blame them?
I'm just curious about something. I wonder how many people leave U.S. shores annually? You never hear of immigration OUT OF the U.S.
You mean, they can’t get out? Is there a wall preventing them from leaving?
At what point do these people say, “The heck with this. I’m not cutting and running. This is war”?
I knew a young Brit who was in a similar situation. While waiting for his green card — a span of several years — he wasn’t supposed to work. Of course he could take odd jobs off the books, but if he was caught he could be sent back. Meanwhile, he was dependent on his American wife and mother-in-law. It just isn’t a normal situation for a young, ambitious and eager to work male to be living like this. Ironically, he and his wife had met in Mexico. If he had just come across the border illegally, he could have been working from the day he arrived and in line for eventual amnesty.
The fact is, the Euro-peons aint exactly producing alot of children, so don't expect a large wave of European immigrants anytime soon. That being said, skilled immigrants from Europe (and Asia, Latin America, etc.) face an uphill battle in trying to come here. Of course, if you want to wash dishes or clean bedpans, feel free to cross the southern border at anytime...
Generally there is no such thing.
Most Americans here in Indonesia are expats.
They couln't become Indonesian even if they wanted to.
That would be the same for most, if not all of Asia, Africa, South America, and to some extent Europe.
In other words, it's a one way street.
North Queensland will be hot - but beautiful.
The same kinda thing is beginning to take shape here - although most here still look down on escaping b/c it’s still so wonderful in the States. Those that leave the US now may be saving their futures or life savings - or they may be turning their backs on the best place on earth. IMO it’s too early to decide - but I don’t like the way it’s heading.
Ya know you can always buy a place to keep your assets - and have a place to go :0-)
“North Queensland will be hot - but beautiful.”
Just like West Texas.
LOL I know nothing about West Texas - maybe next summer I’ll head over to check it out in my carbon-emitting family transport vehicle - any suggestions on where to go?
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