Daily Express: The World's Greatest Newspaper :: News / Showbiz :: 4,000 people a week trying to leave UKYeah, that'd do it...The country’s biggest foreign visa consultancy firm has revealed that applications have soared in the last seven months by 80 per cent to almost 4,000 a week. Ten years ago the figure was just 300 a week.
Most people are relocating within the Commonwealth – in Australia, Canada and South Africa. They are almost all young professionals and skilled workers aged 20-40.
And many cite their reason for wanting to quit as immigration to these shores – and the burden it is placing on their communities and local authorities. The dearth of good schools, spiralling house prices, rising crime and tax increases are also driving people away.
The British government needs to figure out something, quick. I'd hate to see the UK go third-world... But when the brains drain, something's gotta give.
J.