Every day I seem to encounter people both online and offline who are fed up with the United Kingdom and have decided that if they can they will leave Britain. Some Britons of all faiths and none are looking at the prospects for business and their families and voting with their feet and turning those feet towards airports and ports.
Thomas Skinner the West Ham United supporting TV and internet personality and ‘bosh’-bard and proper traditional British family man has also noticed that many Britons have had enough of the increasing difficulties of living in Britain. In a long piece on the X platform Mr Skinner told of how he knew at least ten people in his circle that have decided that Britain ain’t worth a candle due to its current problems. He doesn’t blame them for going, we all need to do what’s best for our families, but like me he’s sad that this is happening.
In one part of his piece following on from where he spoke about his love for Britain and its people Mr Skinner said:
But something’s gone wrong. The cost of living. The feeling of being let down. The constant battles just to get by. It’s wearing people down. They’ve had enough. I’ll stay and keep fighting for this country until my last breath. I believe in it. I believe in the people. I’ll shout about what’s right, and I’ll call out what’s wrong. And there is millions just like me, I know it. Because if we all leave, who’s left to fix it? But if you’ve left or you’re thinking about it…. I don’t blame you for one second. You’ve got to do what’s best for your family. And that’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Full post from Mr Skinner via the link below
https://x.com/iamtomskinner/status/1944720531728810492
He’s right. Something, well quite a lot of things to be quite frank, have gone wrong with Britain Crime, the economy, social breakdown, poor education and healthcare services and punitive levels of tax and all factors that are propelling Britons to leave the UK. After all if you have got the skills or ability or resources to survive in Australia, the USA or Dubai or Eastern Europe or New Zealand or some other place and those places do not have the disadvantages suffered by Britain then the decision to leave might be considered a no brainer.
If you want such things as the ability of your wife or daughter to be able to walk down a high street in relative safety or your son to be able to get a job either better or the same level as you have or even have public services that actually function as they should, then it’s increasingly unlikely you will find such things in the UK.
Other groups who have been a part of England and later Great Britain for centuries, such as many in Britain’s Jewish community, are also starting to leave the UK in greater numbers. They are leaving because they see the writing on the wall about Britain. What is being read on that wall are echoes of other nations that might once have been safe but either gradually or suddenly went bad. In this community there are great fears of leaving getting out of a country gone bad too late and perishing, or of having to make a panicked escape, like that of my wife’s grandmother, who fled out of the North of a city, in this case Paris, as the enemy is advancing into it from the East. If Britain’s Jews with a heightened communal sense of when a country is going tits up are leaving then you can be damned sure that a lot of other decent Britons are looking at the Jewish ‘canary in a coalmine’ and doing the same. Everyone with a functioning brain, Jew or non-Jew, are reading that aforementioned writing on the wall and although each individual, each family, each community is interpreting it in their own way, the message is the same and that is ‘there is no future for you and your family here’.
What’s heartbreaking is that we seem to be losing our best. We are losing the people with money to spend, who are aspirational for themselves and their families, who set up and run successful businesses and those who work hard both for themselves and their community. We are losing those who are the inheritors of those who put railways across the UK and beyond, losing those whose ancestors did a lot of the pure science that eventually became an underpinning for the modern world. We are losing the national muscle memory of aspiration, curiosity and ambition.
I do understand Mr Skinner’s view that if everyone goes then who will fight for the nation? But there’s a lot of people who aren’t able to fight or fear for their loved ones if they do fight or just feel that they should take their dynamism and skills to places where they might be appreciated and rewarded. I don’t criticise any in these groups of Britons. After all why strive in a country and for a country where the government seems to hate you, taxes you to excess, mismanages the economy and society and tells you to shut up when you complain? It’s a logical question to ask isn’t it? On the scales of desirability Britain is weighed down with disadvantages for those who don’t want to pay excessive chunks of money in order to live in crime infested shitholes ruled over by a political and administrative class that really should be supervised like a particularly dim apprentice* who has been tasked with bath running duties. A lot of people have realised that the way to serve the best interests of them and their families is not going to be served by remaining in Britain. Maybe one day Britain will again be a place for such people but I don’t blame those who don’t want to be in the Britain that our political and administrative nomenklatura has created for us.
- There have been times in my life when I was that 'particularly dim apprentice.