There’s a tendency for articles from The Guardian to be shared here; here’s something from the Telegraph instead.
While I agree with some aspects of this opinion piece there are some segments that irk me. So it goes.
Why the hell did I go into the comments on a Telegraph article… White flight wtf…
I am just under 50 and I would love to leave the UK for another country, but I don’t have the resources to do so. I don’t have a profession or skillset that is in demand in another country, I don’t really speak another language (GCSE French and a bit of Duolingo Spanish). I don’t own property I can sell for a chunk of funds. And I have an elderly mother I’m semi responsible for and wouldn’t want to leave.
Emigration is something of a privilege. The people who are suffering most under the social and economic conditions created by years of austerity and aggressive neoliberalism aren’t generally going to be the ones who can move elsewhere. I suspect a lot of the people who can and will leave are the ones who voted for this shit show in the first place. Twats.
I suspect a lot of the people who can and will leave are the ones who voted for this shit show in the first place.
Unlikely.
The people who are under 50 and moving are certainly not going to have voted for this.
The rich who voted for this are mostly insulated from the mess so if they are here it’s because they have already chosen to be here, and the poor who voted for this couldn’t afford to move countries.
The under-50 who are mobile enough to move are more likely to be liberal.
One does not simply… go into the comments section of the Telegraph.
Empathise with the rest of your post; not everyone is in a position to drop everything and go.
Get a small boat
Also, depending upon the country, age can cause you more issues. In Japan, for example, using the point system to apply for permanent residency is possible, but certain points become unavailable or more difficult with age.
Mixed feelings about this .
People who don’t see the telegraph, need to know to how poisonous it is, and how detached they aren’t their readership are from reality.
On the other hand, to see how triggered we are by it, suggests we are still vulnerable.
every single word, of every single sentence, on every single page is to advance an agenda. We might not immediately know which, or whose, but it is committed to enabling hard right politics
This country is damaged, but not beyond repair. All kinds of people, from all over the world still want to come here. Remember that, and try not be poisoned by constantly consuming messages from the ruling class, that help them stay in power .
The part that pisses me off the most is that, for his audience, this is sage advice: go where the money is. Community and family roots mean nothing. Tories have sucked this place dry, and need to migrate to a new host. All we can hope is that the new host puts them on barges or something.
Yes; I described the author as a “specialist” in another comment - the writing style is very deliberate.
There are bits that might be easy to agree with or at least palatable. Then there are the bits that provoke a reaction. And I agree that there is always a narrative being pushed somewhere.
If you strayed into the comments, some have picked up on the NHS or parts - and some seem to have concluded that the current government is somehow too left wing.
The comments, on any piece, are invariably a metaphors “kill the weak and the people that care”
The torygraph would love it if the only people who stand in the way of total domination left the country
Mysteriously, there’s no mention in this article of who might be responsible for this mess! Say, a political party of some sort? That’s been in government for some time?
Or a media industry that Definitely Does Not Bias The Public.
What a crock of shit. His understanding and use of economic data is fucking laughable
Also by the same author, I think he just writes bait
Did slavery really make Britain rich?
If anything, the slave trade functioned largely to heighten inequality
https://thespectator.com/topic/slavery-really-make-britain-rich/
It’s from the Telegraph their whole news outlet is laughable.
The Spectator? You’ve gone too far! (Yes, Ashworth-Hayes is a somewhat specialist author)
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I’m conflicted. Whilst I’d love to get the fuck out of this shit hole everywhere else is a fucking shit hole in various different ways and degrees. Fuck this planet in general tbh.
Ironically I left the UK years ago and the news in my current country is saying to bail from here too because everything’s going to shit. I think it’s just everywhere.
Where did you move to? The guardian tells me that the EU is the only habital place on earth.
If you’re the demographic that doesn’t vote Tory, it’s time to jump ship – get out of Britain before the election
-- The Telegraph
That’s how I read it. But what they seam to have forgotten is such people don’t read the Torygraph.
whilst the telegraph can be a bit sensational, broken clocks are right twice a day.
i am taking steps to leave here. it wont be for a couple years yet, but i am on the path.
I can’t afford a house in my home country, how am I supposed to be able to afford to move abroad?
I live in America. Same issue and we have no rights and no access to healthcare.
We barely have access to healthcare in the UK tbh.
Unless you pay for private insurance anyway, but then you’re paying twice for healthcare.
Twice for you. 1000x times for us.
Maybe the small boat people could do a return trip?
You heard the old people, get the fuck out.
I’m sure they’ll have a great time when there’s no one to pay their pensions.
Is there a non paywall link to this???
There is an archival snapshot from three hours ago:
Thank you.
Much of that stagnation is because of the Tories running the country into the ground and gifting us the disaster of Brexit. Which the Shittigraph cheerled all the way.
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