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Well if you want the short answer...
• It’s too cold
• It’s too expensive
• Social cohesion and social responsibility have broken down (‘There is no such thing as society”- Margaret Thatcher)
• British homes are appallingly badly insulated
• Energy bills are extortionate (profit before people is a plank of conservative party philosophy; hence privatisation and so-called 'trickle down economics')
• Many pensioners are left to die alone, and are not found for weeks.
• And British rents are extortionate too!
And for justification...
Points 1,2 and 4 do not go well together. Many pensioners live in poverty. Taken with point 3, such lives are also lonely and miserable, especially if combined with poor health. Point 5 helps to reinforce point 2. And point 6 is the result of point 3. Hats off to Margaret Thatcher’s ideology for helping to create it, and for her “Right to buy policy” (when combined with deliberate failure to replace social housing lost to private ownership) which helped to create point 6. And unless you are wealthier than normal, forget all hope of home ownership nowadays!
Did you know? Many pensioners in the UK take their freedom passes and ride around on the busses all day, if their bus service has not been scrapped to save money (point 3 comes into play here too). And why? Well points 4 and 5 are the reason: they cannot afford to keep warm at home!
Given the above, it is any wonder why I wish to leave, before I suffer the same fate as my mother? And that is before you take into account the below. I rest my case.
http://dfdn.info/video/jumpship/jumpship.html
- In my situation add this too..
And I have my own personal reasons beyond the above too!!!
I am appauled at how this country treats it's fathers...
David
