LEAVING BLIGHTY
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 06:57PM I'm sure that Government is delighted to see that more people left the UK last year than in any year since current records began in 1991. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate that some 385,000 people left the UK for the long term in the year to mid-2006. Of those who left the UK last year, 196,000 were British citizens while 189,000 were "long-term migrants" who had been living in the UK for more than a year. How curious that Government defines "long-term" as more than 12 months!
Meanwhile, the figures also indicated that during the same period, 74,000 people arrived in the UK from the eastern European countries that joined the European Union in 2004, while 16,000 people from those countries left. However, according to Home Office statistics, around 200,000 people from the same countries registered for work in the UK during that time.
Think about that for a second! You see the disconnect! Campaign group Migrationwatch said the figures did not add up. Quite right!
"This once again highlights that the government has no real grip of immigration or any meaningful idea of the true number coming to and leaving the UK which makes planning for these large population increases extremely difficult," said chairman Sir Andrew Green.
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The Daily express cites nearly 4000 per week trying to leave with immigration as the root cause.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/15642/4,000-people-a-week-trying-to-leave-UK
The comments section of the Daily Mail, have comments such as:-
People are leaving to find a better safer life elsewhere. The English must be the only race that is not allowed a national identity. England will become a third world country in the near future and those that are leaving are the lucky ones. Keep up the good work labour.
Thats not surprising. Its ancient Brits out, new arrivals in. This country isn't England or Britain anymore it's been ruined by ten years of Labour. No point in living here anymore if you're English.
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=477006&in_page_id=1770
And from the Evening standard:-
In about ten years time this country is going to consist of migrants on benefits. British nationals would have had enough by then.(Myself included)and find a better life in a sunnier country. Gordon Brown et al you have been warned.
www.thisislondon.co.uk/.../article.do
And it's a farewell to one of my own and his family on the fifth of September as they head off to Dubai on a two year contract. Two years!
What gets me is the leftist/Marxist/liberals who have engineered this mess, that Britain and more specifically England has become, like to decry the likes of the BNP as extremists. Could there be anything more extreme than the policies Labour have pursued (without any real debate or mandate) that have resulted in such massive levels of completely uncontrolled immigration and leaving so many areas of Britain looking and feeling like a foreign country? Of course immigration is only one aspect of the damage Neo Labour has done to this country. Apart from immigration the second most important consideration that friends of mine, almost all of whom have young children, have indicated as a reason for why they were emigrating, is the state of education. I can't say I blame them. Education is a lottery and if you lose then you can find your children being forced to go to some pretty awful schools. Personally I had an opportunity to live and work on the beautiful and sunny island of Ibiza. I decided against it because I just didn't feel I could walk away from England and leave the fight for it's heart and soul to others. That's what is now becoming obvious, we have a fight on our hands and I want to do whatever I can. The revolution's coming.
GA
There will be no revolution. We currently have the most politically apathetic population for generations.
This fits in with a deliberate policy of population replacement by NuLab. The indigenous white working class were not reliable enough so if they can stuff enough imposters into the country and give them the rights which used to be reserved for Britons, then NuLab has achieved its goal of perpetual power with a reservoir of grateful, low-standard incomers.
Allan@Oslo
Precisely.
Colm, apathetic, demoralised, but prosperous enough to shrug their shoulders, and hope the trouble will go away.
I am now convinced that, provided it maintains a reasonable degree of prosperity, a government can get away with any level of incompetence and mendacity.
Colm - I live in hope.
Typhoo.
Two year contract eh? To return home, only to find he has'nt really left Dubai!
LOL Bernard, I never thought of it like that, but you're right.
Bernard
LOL. But he will miss the freedoms of Dubai...