Britons face a future of green taxes, higher fuel prices and even flight rationing under anti-pollution laws unveiled yesterday. A Climate Change Bill would make the UK the only country with legally binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The five-yearly goals would cost the UK up to £12billion a year for the next 42 years. The Government was warned that a switch to a low-carbon economy would trigger an economic slowdown and job losses while giving politicians the excuse for unpopular taxes, hike the cost of fuel and even bring in “personal carbon quotas”. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=494367&in_page_id=1770
Britain is experiencing the greatest exodus of its own nationals since before the First World War while immigration has reached unprecedented levels, new figures from the Office of National Statistics have revealed. Last year, 207,000 British citizens, or one every three minutes, left the country…. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=4LBGQ0HVFMSBVQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=F11&blog=yourview&xml=/news/2007/11/15/view15.xml
Each day, 1,000 [Britons] pack their bags for good and skedaddle. A disarming proportion of them are young, well-educated wealth creators who feel – like the Mexicans – that it is time to leave for better opportunities. This silent exodus is laden with economic implication. http://www.thebusiness.co.uk/the-magazine/columns/354171/economy-suffers-brain-drain-as-britains-population-takes-flight.thtml
