Queue to leave Broken Britain
Avalanche-like immigration and mismanagement forces Britons to flee their own country in vain hope that they will be handled better in the USA, Canada, Australia etc.
[quote]A LONG queue winds across a car park, snakes up a flight of stairs and pauses by a set of double doors.
The people waiting patiently in line have not arrived for the start of a sale but are Brits desperate for a ticket OUT of the country they were once proud to call home.
Emigration fairs across the UK like this one in Esher, Surrey, are attracting record numbers of fed-up Britons hoping to be given permission to live in countries including Australia, USA, New Zealand and Canada.
More than 25,000 people have attended fairs in Surrey, Belfast and London in the last few weeks and events in Coventry and Liverpool are in the pipeline.
The fairs come after more than 200,000 skilled workers and professionals turned their backs on the UK and left for good last year to start a new life abroad.
The Government’s latest figures show the number of Brits emigrating to Australia alone has more than DOUBLED in the past decade.
Enticed by the climate — as well as the more material advantages of a recruitment drive aimed at attracting skilled workers — more than 23,000 Brits moved Down Under between 2006 and 2007.
The number of arrivals from the UK is expected to soar further after the Aussie government announced plans to add an extra 6,000 places for skilled migrants, taking the total annual intake to 110,000.
A big proportion of those places are expected to be taken up by Brits.
Mike Schwarz is managing director of Outbound Media Exhibitions, which organises the emigration fairs.
Representatives from different countries set up stalls to discuss emigration with those thinking about taking the plunge.
Mike says: “The interest has been phenomenal. People have been queuing to get in. Chatting with exhibitors last weekend the most frightening thing in some ways was the quality — and quantity — of the people visiting the show who plan to emigrate.
“From nurses and midwives to teachers, engineers, truck drivers, plumbers and carpenters — there was an incredibly wide range of workers.
“There is a general level of dissatisfaction with life in the UK and a perception that there will be a better lifestyle overseas.
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“There is no doubt that cheap property is a pull for people looking to release capital and buy something splendid with lots of land and a view. But a lot of people have also mentioned loutish behaviour, migration from Eastern Europe and the cost of living as powerful factors in making them want to say goodbye to their home country.
“The well-being of children is another major pull.â€
