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The UK’s Brain Drain Is Underway, and This Time, it Will Kill the Country Off!
Thanks to Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak, the Uk’s brain drain is officially underway. Sadly, the most astonishing thing about this significant event is that it’s happening under a so-called conservative government, not some left-wing labor government led by Harold Wilson or Jeremy Corbin. The same policies that drove the UK’s top professional West in the 1960s and 70s will surely have the same result this time around.
Punish the producers, kill meritocracy, support a generations of slackers, retool the NHS again, and continue life support for the terminally ill postal service. Then blame COVID, Brexit, and the war in Ukraine for your pathetic leadership.
If the UK had done what Ron DeSantis did in Florida, it would be much better off. Covid lasted a month here, and then… well, we simply decided not to do it. Florida is booming! (Deaths in Florida were not statistically higher than in any of the lockdown states) but that’s another topic.
High taxes in the 60s and 70’s are what drove David Bowie to Switzerland, The Rollin Stones to record Exile on Mainstreet in France, while Rod Stewart and a host…