From The Telegraph:
Britain is experiencing the worst “brain drain” of any country as highly qualified professionals settle abroad, an authoritative international study showed yesterday.
Record numbers of Britons are leaving – many of them doctors, teachers and engineers – in the biggest exodus for almost 50 years.
There are now 3.247 million British-born people living abroad, of whom more than 1.1 million are highly-skilled university graduates, say the researchers.
More than three quarters of these professionals have settled abroad for more than 10 years, according to the study by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
No other nation is losing so many qualified people, it points out. Britain has now lost more than one in 10 of its most skilled citizens, while overall only Mexico has had more people emigrate.
The figures, based on official records from more than 220 countries, will alarm Gordon Brown as tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money is spent on educating graduates. The cost of training a junior doctor, for example, is £250,000.
The most popular destinations are English-speaking countries such as Australia, America, Canada and New Zealand and holiday areas including France and Spain.
Almost 60 per cent of those leaving take jobs, although hundreds of thousands of retired people live abroad.
The report is a statistical analysis which does not study the motivation for leaving Britain. However, high house prices and taxes and poor climate are frequently cited.
Shocking. People are fed up with the “high standard of living” ten years of Fabian style socialism has given them and are abandoning a sinking ship at the first available opportunity. They call it “brain drain” but it seems more like Darwinism to me, England’s happy face fascism has made the country unlivable. Would you live in a country where:
Someone stabbed every 24 minutes?
You receive more jail time for making untoward jokes about Gays than you would for rape?
Where the government is proclaims it has a right to your internal organs when you die?
Where Muslim immigrants were allowed to terrorize Polish immigrants?
Where one in three doctors think the elderly should be denied treatment?
Where the Home Secretary admits the streets are unsafe after dark?
Or where the authorities refuse to stop the sexual exploitation of children because to do so would be “racist?”
That’s England for you, and they wonder why the “smart” people are fleeing the place. At least some of the politicians get it:
Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, said: “Ten years of Labour has re-created the brain drain. High taxes and Government interference are driving people away.”
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Prof David Coleman, of St John’s, Oxford, said the brain drain was “to do with quality of life, laws and bureaucracy, tax and all the rest of it“.
Prof Christian Dustmann, of University College London, said: “The costs of leaving a country are substantial. The rewards must be very high.”
The rewards are high indeed, because they are leaving to live in countries where they are safe, where they can pursue economic liberty and they can enjoy freedom.
