Brits Are Fleeing the UK in Record Numbers
New data shows the great British escape is way bigger than the government admitted.
Last year 257,000 UK citizens packed up and left for good. The Office for National Statistics previously estimated only 77,000 would go.
Political scientist Matt Goodwin says this is what happens when Brits finally snap after years of high taxes, broken borders, declining living standards, and what he calls “managed decline.”
“Once you take away the pandemic, it’s the largest number since records began, all the way back in 1964,” he said.
Tory MP Andrew Griffith couldn’t believe the scale of it either.
“A quarter of a million Brits left the UK last year! The highest on record and 100k more than came back from abroad,” he wrote on X.
Where are they going? Dubai. Melbourne. America. Anywhere the grass looks greener.
“Could this be the biggest exodus since the Mayflower?” mulled Griffith.
Entrepeneur Daniel Priestley noted that 10,000 millionaires have left the UK.
“Now the numbers are in. About 77,000 was the expected number of people to emigrate out of the UK last year. The actual number …257,000!” he wrote on X.
“Over 180,000 more than expected. I’m going to take a stab in the dark and guess a lot of these people are high tax payers who are hard to replace,” he added.
Andrew Amoils, Head of Research at wealth intelligence firm New World Wealth, in a report said that top destination cities for millionaires leaving the UK in 2024/2025 are expected to include Paris, Dubai, Amsterdam, Monaco, Geneva, Sydney, and Singapore, as well as retirement hotspots such as Florida, the Algarve, Malta, and the Italian Riviera.
“I am telling you — leave the UK while you can.”
That was the stark warning from investor David Bell, founder of financial analysis platform Fink Money, who posted on X on Oct. 14 about what he sees as Britain’s looming economic crisis.
“Next year they’re going to pull the maddest tax shit ever,” Bell wrote. “And you’re going to wish you did [leave].”
Britain, soon a great place to be from, ey?