Your reaction to Brits abroad report

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Almost one in 10 British citizens live overseas, according to new research.

The study, carried out by the Institute of Public Policy Research, and published on the BBC News website, suggested that at least 5.5 million Britons are living abroad and that this number is likely to grow.

Researchers found that 75% of expat Britons are based in 10 countries. These are Australia, France, Spain, Germany, Canada, Ireland, Cyprus, the US, New Zealand and South Africa.

Have you moved away from the UK? What do you think of the report's findings? Send us your comments.

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Written by George Orwell, London, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 11:27:35 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

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The real george orwell must be turning in his grave how about changing your name to Rush Limbaugh?

Woody Guthrie, United States "
He was a pen name. However Eric Arthur Blair was never keen on fascists so why would he have been happy that we have Islamic fascists in the UK who want to bomb us ?
For that matter he never argued for high council taxes on pensioners.

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Written by Oh Noes, Stratford on Mon Dec 11 11:21:34 GMT 2006. 1 recommendations.

I thought the ballot-box was an anonymous thing, but apparently the BNP can say with certainty who their supporters are and what the majority of them are like. Care to comment on that?

George Hughes, Birmingham, United Kingdom


My grandmother served in WW2 and voted BNP.

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Written by [grrwest] on Mon Dec 11 10:58:34 GMT 2006. 4 recommendations.

Maybe if I was a halfcaste, ginger haired, lesbian in a wheel-chair then I could get on in Blairs Britain....

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Written by widuran Bertram, Letchworth, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 11:37:39 GMT 2006. 3 recommendations.

"Who else do they vote for?"

UKIP, Conservatives, Lib Dems (Those PC Liberals!)

Why would anyone want to vote for a party comprising of National Front memebers who believe black men shouldn't play for England. Nick Griffen calls his two pet pigs Anne & Frank (After Anne Frank). They also deny the holocaust and are pitting ethnic minorities against each other. The current target is Muslims after that it will be Hindus/Sikhs/Afro Carrabean Europeans ect.. If the BNP get in I will leave!

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Written by Daniel cook, Stevenage, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 11:51:24 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

IPPC Government propaganda machine
Look who co wrote the report

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This Guy even helped in the Cross examination of Sir Andrew green of Migration watch for the government

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It just STINKS

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Written by Daniel cook, Stevenage, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 11:53:24 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

IPPC Government propaganda machine
Dr. Sriskandarajah who co wrote the report


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This Guy even helped in the Cross examination of Sir Andrew green of Migration watch for the government

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It just STINKS

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Written by British Man, Wokingham, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:18:46 GMT 2006. 4 recommendations.

"Domestic Violence
Football Hooliganism
GBH
Terrorism
Handling Stolen Goods
Drugs
possessing offensive weapons

A list of reasons I wish to leave the UK? No, a list of criminal convictions of senior BNP members. This vile racist scum may be trying to put a respectable face on at the moment but they are still vile thugs. No amount of special pleading can change that fact.

Woody Guthrie, United States"

Sounds like Britain is looking the same as Germany and the Nazis in the 30's

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Written by [Abernethyt], Newbury, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:25:00 GMT 2006. 2 recommendations.

Anywhere where there are no muslims!

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Written by Woody Guthrie, United States on Mon Dec 11 12:14:31 GMT 2006. 3 recommendations.

Domestic Violence
Football Hooliganism
GBH
Terrorism
Handling Stolen Goods
Drugs
possessing offensive weapons

A list of reasons I wish to leave the UK? No, a list of criminal convictions of senior BNP members. This vile racist scum may be trying to put a respectable face on at the moment but they are still vile thugs. No amount of special pleading can change that fact.

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Written by Oh Noes, Stratford on Mon Dec 11 12:51:42 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

I think you're missing the point I was making (r u one of the thickies that can't leave?); becoming an immigrant in response to immigration is ironic. Divver.

[king_of_reason], Weston, United Kingdom


Well, no, because there are different reasons for immigration. It seems that one of the answers for Britains immigration is to leave it all behind. How is it ironic that Britons are leaving Britain because there is no other effective alternative to Britains immigration problem?

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Written by phil b, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:19:28 GMT 2006. 1 recommendations.

"Unfortunately it's not the BNP members that ever emigrate, more's the pity, we could do without them here, but no-one else would have them iether.

If people stopped constantly wingeing about the state that this country is in and did something proactive instead, maybe we'd have less to complain about!

Rachel, Manchester"

They can't emigrate, nobody else bloody wants them. Also criminal records tend to be frowned upon by other countries.

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Written by phil b, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:17:06 GMT 2006. 3 recommendations.

Woody Guthrie is right

The BNP leadership have criminal records as long as your arm. They also have or have had links to Italian terrorist groups, The KKK , gaddafi and other lovely people.

If you love Britain fight the BNP

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Written by James Harrison, London on Mon Dec 11 12:23:04 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

"The BNP leadership have criminal records as long as your arm."

Total lies! You can't be a councillor and have have criminal conviction. There have been far more, % wise, of criminality in the other three major parties than the BNP. FACT!

Most BNP's members convictions have been due to self defence against Marxist/left-wing thugs!

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Written by Leonard Day, Cardiff, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:41:39 GMT 2006. 2 recommendations.

Anyone who votes BNP is a traitor. Hundreds of thousands gave their lives during WW2 so that this country would be free of Nazi influence & power. Do you people not realise what you are saying when you voice support for these odious thugs?
Grow up and, as our American cousins would say - get real & wise up!

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Written by ian gray, Wigan, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:39:29 GMT 2006. 2 recommendations.

Quite simple why British people want to leave Britain really:
Scandalously high taxes for very little in return, rampant crime with no deterrent or punishment for the few that get caught, out of control mass immigration, an education system that has gone down the pan, a ruined NHS, overpopulated, most expensive public transport in the world etc, etc. Need I go on? I would like to stay and fight to get this country great again - but Im afraid that the battle is all but lost.

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Written by Malcolm Peach, Slough, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:37:32 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

Hey Heidi Pfhuler...Have you been in contact with the real world recently? If you really think that buying a greener car and getting to know someone from a different age group are the solutions to the problems this country faces, then can I have some of whatever you're smoking.

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Written by ian simpson, lancaster on Mon Dec 11 12:29:33 GMT 2006. 1 recommendations.

And please note. Most immigrants ARE NOT ENTITLED TO BENEFITS. The BNP has been spreading lies.

Martje Ross

I'm not keep on the BNP but everyday with this government makes them more and more attractive and they didn't lie when they said the only nations entitled to asylum in the UK could only come from Ireland and France according to EU law!
This country has been infested with all the dregs of society Europe didnt want and i resent paying for them!

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Written by [Ravensbane], Rugby, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:27:01 GMT 2006. 2 recommendations.

"The BNP leadership have criminal records as long as your arm."

Total lies! You can't be a councillor and have have criminal conviction. There have been far more, % wise, of criminality in the other three major parties than the BNP. FACT!

Most BNP's members convictions have been due to self defence against Marxist/left-wing thugs!

James Harrison, London

BNP may as well be the old National Front
Racist through and through. yes we want to curb imigration but not at any price thanks

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Written by [Harry-Flashman] on Mon Dec 11 12:51:54 GMT 2006. 2 recommendations.

The BNP will inevitably achieve electoral success - for the same reasons the Nazi party did in 1933.

A divided country, facing problems of increasing economic instability, that feels threatened by external influences & that none of the mainstream parties are dealing with.

In Germany in 1933 the people felt so threatened & marginalised that they voted for a racist thug with a criminal record, because they felt he was the only choice left.
The same will happen here, & I dread the day.

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Written by Wu Shu on Mon Dec 11 12:43:56 GMT 2006. 1 recommendations.

To the people thinking of voting for the BNP: your decision may be based on your dislike and hatred for coloured people, particularly Muslims.

That's fair enough and you're entitled to vote for whoever you want in our democratic nation. Just bear in mind that the BNP is also an anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic party.

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Written by Naseem Ramsahye, Montpellier (UK expat), France on Mon Dec 11 12:54:59 GMT 2006. 3 recommendations.

As I read these pro-BNP comments, I seem to have the 'Imperial March', the music associated with Darth Vader from Star Wars playing in my head...... for anyone who's seen the lastest Star Wars film, you'll know what I mean...

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Written by [king_of_reason], Weston, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:43:06 GMT 2006. 1 recommendations.

Not that ironic. Immigration is alot worse here than any other country (I think..) mainly because we have such a sloppy immigration policy and basically let anyone in. Immigrants rarely have anything this country needs, they just claim they are in dager i ntheir country and theyt given a house, a full-time job etc.

Oh Noes, Stratford

I think you're missing the point I was making (r u one of the thickies that can't leave?); becoming an immigrant in response to immigration is ironic. Divver.

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Written by widuran Bertram, Letchworth, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:45:04 GMT 2006. 2 recommendations.

How awful it must be for the 10 countries that 75% of expat Britons to have British immigrants living amongst them, judging by the xenophobia shown on this HYS.

Spot the irony.

Wu Shu

I agree with you. I am off to lunch now. Reading these comments makes me ashamed to be British. The BBC modded my last post as I said "Muslims are the same as everyone else." Yet the BBC still lets people post "I will move anywhere where there are no Muslims". Whoever thinks the BBC is left wing is insane

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Written by Duncan McDonald, Salisbury, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 14:05:29 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

What does the government care? They value US policy over UK public opinion. I'll bet that Tony Blair will be in the US when he steps down generating cash on the lucrative after dinner speech market so he won't have to live in the hell he has created!

Given the choice (and I am working towards being able to have this choice) I would leave tomorrow.

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Written by L Evans, Birmingham, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 12:35:31 GMT 2006. 1 recommendations.

1. Rip-off Britain. It's so expensive to buy property, and just to live, much cheaper abroad (plus nice weather!)

2. The loss of British identity. i.e. Too much immigration, combined with Political Correctness. The British sense of fair play has been insulted by PC rubbish like watching criminals on roof-tops getting free KFC because of their "human rights"...

Outcome..

1. Mongrel society, violent crimes, slow decline into a rubbish tip, right-wing revolution...BNP?

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Written by [CeeofGee], Oxford, United Kingdom on Tue Dec 12 15:00:24 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

Seems that a lot of people have perhaps wanted to emigrate anyway in order to experience different things in life. Not a bad idea ! Makes for a simple approach :

Follow your dream! Unless it's the one where you're at work in your underwear during a fire drill.

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Written by Jackie Scott, London, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 09:10:51 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

Is anyone surprised that ethnic Brits are leaving ?

Also, the figures are distorted by Asian (mainly people of Pakistan origin) commuting back and forth to their various homeland business interests.

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Written by john beatson, sheffield, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 10:02:18 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

We have the most evil and traitorous parliament in British history, till the British National Party comes to power Britain will be demise towards a third world status country.

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Written by John Gibson on Mon Dec 11 10:29:49 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

Doesnt the fact that a staggering amount of people are moaning tell you something? It seems that the loony left that love to post such rose tinted views of this country while slagging off the 'moaners' and so called 'fascists' or anyone that has a legitimate opposing view, are starting to gain the upperground. Well done to contributors such as Leftwing Lefty, you and your ilk are scum.

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Written by Pete Jolliffe, Isle of wight on Mon Dec 11 10:37:14 GMT 2006. 1 recommendations.

If you notice ...They are all heading for countries where Mosques are not being built everywhere and away from this crazy multiculturalism. No one understands 'why' Britain is being given to foreign people and they prefer to leave rather than be branded as racist for saying anything about it.
You only have to look at the rules of this HYS to understand.

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Written by phil b, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 10:52:50 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

I wish that the bigots who support the BNP would leave. Unfortunately they are all too thick, unskilled and lacking any ability another country would want.

A couple more myths busted:

"highest taxes in europe" Not true tax burden is more than USA and less than the rest of Europe, but as the USA doesnt give a toss for the poor and elderly, I know which I prefer

"PC is banning our culture" 99% of "PC gone mad" stories are fictions generated by the gutter press.

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Written by widuran Bertram, Letchworth, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 11:20:53 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

Utter rubbish. The majority of BNP supporters are the hard working, educated, skilled people that are thoroughly peed off with this country and how it is degenerating into nothing more than criminal run corrupt island.

snidey c, rochester, United Kingdom

That is exactly what Hitlers supporters said in Nazi Germany. You could vote Conservative, Lib Dems or even UKIP but you decide to go for a racist party. Guess hard working, educated people do have some prejudices.

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Written by Andy Summers, London, United Kingdom on Mon Dec 11 11:34:26 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

Vote the British National Party if you want this madness to stop and give the LOONIE LEFT and PC BRIGADE a message that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

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Written by Ragnar von-Scharnhorst, Berlin, Germany on Mon Dec 11 11:44:16 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

When I click on the "main story link" can some one at the BBC please explain what the HEL, closing hospitals has got to do with this HYS?

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Written by Indispair, Exeter on Mon Dec 11 14:32:23 GMT 2006. 0 recommendations.

Anyone for a military coup? I bet if the Generals wanted to run our country, I bet there would be so much support. Afterall, with the thick layer of parasitic sludge inhabiting the bottom of our society, the useless politicians, the hyper-taxation and wave after wave of third worlders and their third world religions, it can't get any worse can it? Roll on the tanks!

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