If Great Britain Is So Great Why Are More And More British People Moving Abroad?

By Author: Jene Pedder
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If Great Britain is so great why are more and more British people moving abroad? It's not a trick question in fact it's quite obvious. I recently read a newspaper report with some very interesting statistics about British families immigrating abroad.
Government figures which are set to be released this year show that an amazing 250,000 people moved out of Britain in 2007 which is a 21% increase on the year before. That is 684 a day or one in every two minutes! In 1997 only 149,000- people fled the UK so in ten years the amount has gone up nearly 70%.

It is hardly surprising to me as I have thought about leaving the country myself. I, like many people are fed up with the spiralling levels of immigration, crime and tax and the increase of drug use. Our schooling system is a waste of tax payer's money in my mind. What a lot of lovely teenagers running riot in our towns and cities most on drugs leading or heading for a life of crime. Why does our school curriculum not teach money management, ethically values, healthy cooking.

One of the things that annoy me about this country and our society is the ...
... older generation - they always go on about ‘in our day children respected adults' and so on. But what I always tell the older generation is that if your not happy with the way children and adults behave today then you only have yourself to blame. At the end of the day we are a result of this older generation, we evolved from that generation.

Did you know that just last year there were at least 620,000 foreigners settling in the UK and that is the known figure; I would estimate it is more like double that, but we will never know. In fact there has been a 90% increase in immigration over the past ten years which tells us something about this country.

Why is Britain so attractive to foreigners? Well apart from our glorious weather it must be the fact that we have a fairly good NHS, you only have to call 999 and within 20 minutes you are being helped by professionals. Another reason is our pathetic benefit system which allows you to claim tax payers' money for doing nothing. You can spend your benefit on drink and drugs or spend it down the betting shop if you fancy. You could make out you have a bad back and you will get high disability benefit, and you can still go to work as your are not likely to get caught! Men can also have a child without having to pay maintenance. Of course there is the CSA but all you have to do is become self employed and they know damn well they won't get a penny out of you.

So it is no wonder that experts are telling us that this year they the total number of people moving out of the UK will be even higher. And it is hardly surprising that more and more hard-pressed families people not just wanting to escape the bleak weather, but seeking a whole change of lifestyle in the sun with Australia, New Zealand, France and Spain the top destinations.