As the Conservative government struggles to find its beating heart and resolve the issue of immigration both here and at the root cause, another issue is steadily making its way to the surface – although it is unlikely to garner as much attention as its opposite issue – emigration. At the moment it isn’t so much about the numbers as it about the reasoning: why are so many people eager to abandon the United Kingdom? According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in 2014 323,000 people emigrated, 43% of which were Brits. Emigration peaked in 2008 at 427,000 but the trend has remained approximately the same ever since, the top 3 destinations being Australia, the United States, and Canada. There are approximately 5.5 million Brits now living abroad according to the Institute for Public Policy Research and as a percentage of population, Britain is one of the biggest emigrating nations in the world.EMIGRATION: WHY ARE PEOPLE LEAVING THIS ISLAND? | The Norwich Radical
