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Originally posted by TrollI think this is known as "white flight" ... and appears to be accelerating.
Unfortunately Canada & the US have similar problems.. only Aus appears to have braved the PC storm and maintained a sensible immigration policy, trouble is Aus is a desert
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The other day on the BBC website there was an article about NHS goals, full of the usual Birtspeak (management / social worker gobbledegook, for people who don't read Private Eye) and reading between the soothing lines and sanitised phrases I saw for the first time with ghastly clarity what the UK will be like in 50 years or less, if present trends continue, especially once robots start doing all the "useful" jobs.
Everyone will be assigned a social worker, or "life health monitor" or some such crap euphemistic title, and have regular visits to review their life, and of course round the clock monitoring by computers and other gadgets (possibly attached to or embedded in peoples' bodies) and far more powerful and all-embracing than anything around today.
There will be paltry patronising rewards for approved activity (such as informing on violations by others) and subtle penalties or deprivations for those who don't cooperate, even with the most trivial intrusive directions such as a detailed diet plan. (Forget smoking or drinking.) There will be less personal freedom than a medievil serf's, and without even the liberty to take to the road, or get pissed once in a while, or roll in the hay with whoever takes your fancy.
That's no exaggeration either - State-run health systems, as exemplified by the NHS, are the nearest modern equivalent of the medievil church, which ran everyone's life and oven ordered kings and aristocrats around. Look how governments jump like startled rabbits each time a posse of doctors (our revered modern priests of the body cult) issues some ridiculous report. State health systems are the perfect stalking horse for a gradual totalitarian takeover, a stealthy descent of a fluffy blanket to smother freedom in its comforting folds.
Reading over the above, I realise it only describes a corny picture familiar from a hundred SF films, like Logan's Run. But I still think most people are blissfully unware of the murky potential of the NHS and other government run social programs when money is no object and few have anything better to do than meddle in the affairs of others.
As historian Lord Macaulay expressed it about something else (quoting from memory) "Today's bright morning star may become by nightfall an ominous, glittering portent of revelation" ...Last edited by OwlHoot; 9 July 2007, 19:52.
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Originally posted by Cooperinliverp00lThe few weeks / months / years has un-settled me for where i think Britain is going to be in the next few years / decades.
The amount of tax we pay on everything and the amount of crap that goes on is making me and Miss Cooperinliverp00l to really consider leaving it all behind and move to Australia / America.
Can house prices continue to raise, Tax continue to raise, introduction of road pricing, crap NHS and Transport,
Is the grass likely to be greener in another country ? What would you doOriginally posted by TrollI think this is known as "white flight" ... and appears to be accelerating.
Unfortunately Canada & the US have similar problems.. only Aus appears to have braved the PC storm and maintained a sensible immigration policy, trouble is Aus is a desert
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Originally posted by ZippyI really miss Bob Shawadiwadi
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Originally posted by lilelvis2000check these stats out. I particularily am worried about the privacy rankings.
http://www.photius.com/rankings/index.html
As if life isn't depressing enough
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And if you want to be happy check out this list.
http://www.happyplanetindex.org/list.htm
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check these stats out. I particularily am worried about the privacy rankings.
http://www.photius.com/rankings/index.html
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Originally posted by andyyour job at half the salary
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Originally posted by BuffoonThat is very true. And in most of them there is no protection against discrimination as there is here.
It comes as a shock to many when they have to pay for health care and their kid’s education too. It makes you realise why so many want to come here.
A thick skin and deep pockets are required.
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Originally posted by DimPrawnSurely the best place to go is India, since you speak their language already (English) and they have your job there waiting for you?
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Originally posted by BuffoonA thick skin and deep pockets are required.
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Surely the best place to go is India, since you speak their language already (English) and they have your job there waiting for you?
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