The British Are Leaving! Great Britain, that is...

i ran across this link earlier today on instapundit's blog: "4000 People a Week Trying to Leave UK"

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....They are almost all young professionals and skilled workers aged 20-40.

i wonder why? according to the visa consultancy firm referenced above:

Director Liam Clifford says: "Since January 2007, we have recorded an 80% rise in British nationals applying to move overseas. As this rise continues, so does the number of enquiries we receive from people asking for help in migrating to a new country. In recent months, we have received as many as 4,000 requests in a single week from people who have had enough of Britain and want to get out."

He adds: "Ironically, the main reason for these people leaving the UK is the over-stretching of services caused by inbound immigration to the UK. We are aware of the issue of so-called ‘white flight’ from certain inner city areas to the suburbs but now people are increasingly seeking a better standard of living offered by other countries.

"This phenomenon adds to the existing shortage of skilled workers already faced by the UK as they leave only to be replaced by low skilled EU A8 workers or low skilled refugees."

this problem has apparently been creeping up for years, but has literally exploded recently. i found this article from the august 31, 2006 issue of the christian science monitor warns of the same problem. it references a "recent" BBC report which found that 13% of Britons planned to emigrate in the near future!!

the CS monitor article (from '06) pointed out that 350,000 Brits were emigrating each year. the latest stats that 4000 Brits were trying to obtain visas to live abroad each week adds up to 4000 X 52 weeks = 208,000/year trying to officially leave, which is less than the previous figure--maybe they don't take into account people who just leave without applying for the visa. anyway, those are HUGE numbers.

why the hurry to leave? could it have anything at all to do with THIS?



check out the guy's sign on the left: "EUROPE IS THE CANCER, ISLAM IS THE ANSWER".

does this leave any question about what's happening?

British Muslim blogger Yahya Birt weighed in on this issue on dec 31, 2006, in a long post on his blogsite. the post is pretty interesting, because it's mainly a critique of a book called "Time to Emigrate?" by George Walden, a former Conservative Education Minister. Birt argues, point by point, how Walden is a laughable "islamophobe". but, in reading the post, you can almost sense how stiff this guy Birt's spine is. it's pretty cocky stuff.

"(Walden) is particularly cutting about the English people’s hypocrisy and cant, and what he sees as their ability to trot out the usual platitudes about Islam and multiculturalism, without saying what they really think."

to me, this reads like a guy who knows he's onto something. further down:

"The English, with their usual stoic resignation, rather than kicking up a fuss about these sea-changes, he argues, are quietly leaving. The lion no longer roars but is abdicating."

i don't know how much of this last quote was Walden's or Birt's, but Birt seems to take a certain glee in paraphrasing it. "the lion no longer roars but is abdicating"...a.k.a. giving up. scary stuff.

couple this with Mark Steyn's thesis which he lays out in "America Alone" that europeans don't have enough babies to sustain their population, and in order to afford the vast social services they expect, they have to import their population...which millions of muslims are only too happy to oblige. what a time bomb this whole situation is. declining birthrates + more muslim immigrants + political correctness + increasing muslim electoral power + radicalization of the muslim youth + "british stoicism" + "i'm starting to not recognize this place anymore" = LET'S GET THE HELL OUT OF DODGE.

british authorities are worried. their finding themselves sending more and more pensions abroad. in other words, CAPITAL DRAIN. the brains of britain are leaving, and are being replaced by unskilled laborers. maybe these guys should start passing around dogeared copies of "atlas shrugged"...



this is a link to a YouTube member who has posted an excellent british TV report on the radicalization of muslims in great britain.