Brits flee adversity
[Posted 1:54 PM by Andrew Cusack]
If our previous post on the wonders of British youth "culture" made you wonder why the natives still bother to live in Britain at all, the answer is: more and more aren't. The BBC reports that more people left the United Kingdom last year than in any year since they began taking records. But look on the bright side: the greater the number of Britons emigrating means more room for the new immigrants who'll be needed to fill London's mega-mosque.
But to where exactly are these Britons fleeing? Mostly, the BBC shows elsewhere, to other English-speaking countries that share in the British constitutional tradition, namely Australia (1,300,000 Britons), the United States (678,000), Canada (603,000), Ireland (291,000), New Zealand (215,000), and South Africa (212,000). There is an argument to be made that, in light of Canada's "King-Byng" affair and the Australian "Dismissal" of 1975, the Westminster system of government has shown itself to be a little more robust in the Dominions in contrast to Britain, where the Crown continues to merely rubber-stamp the latest diktats of the left-wing metropolitan elite in control of parliament.
Still, however splendid is the stability that the sons of Magna Carta planted in lands across the seven seas, with 761,000 Britons in Spain and 200,000 in France, a great number of expats clearly prefer to stick a bit closer to home and the lovely rays of the Mediterranean sun. After all, it's just a cheap flight back to Blighty if things go pear-shaped on the Costa del Sol.
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