New Polling Shows 1 In 4 Young Brits Could Leave. Poll finds that young Brits are deeply anxious about their financial prospects, with many considering leaving the country altogether. These concerns cut across political divides.
by bottish
New Polling Shows 1 In 4 Young Brits Could Leave. Poll finds that young Brits are deeply anxious about their financial prospects, with many considering leaving the country altogether. These concerns cut across political divides.
by bottish
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Duuuuuuuh.
> KEY FINDINGS:
> **Emigration Pressure**
> * 28% are either actively planning (8%) or have seriously considered (20%) emigrating.
> * Another 30% have briefly considered it.
> * Only 35% say they have never thought about leaving the UK.
> **Housing**
> * 65% believe it will become more difficult to find affordable housing in the next five years.
> * 38% say “much more difficult,” 27% “somewhat more difficult”.
> * Just 21% think it will get easier.
> * 63% of young Conservatives, 65% of Labour, and 68% of Reform UK voters say housing access will worsen.
> **Financial Strain**
> * 50% say most people their age struggle to make ends meet.
> * 43% say some do and only 5% think most do not struggle.
> * Again, there is broad consensus across parties with 54% of Conservative, 50% of Labour voters and 49% of Reform UK saying most struggle.
> These concerns cut across political divides. Voters from all major parties express similar fears about housing and financial insecurity, signalling a generation-wide erosion of confidence in the UK’s economic future.
This is the kind of environment where the likes of Reform will thrive.
Are we fucked?
Jus take a glance at the article and you’ll see that after the initial figures, the first thing it says is a quote from Nigel Farage. This smells like propoganda to me. We’re being bombarded by articles on reddit telling us repeatedly how shit things are and they’re conveniently followed up by Reform quotes. Yeh things are shit but don’t fall for propoganda in the process. Use your heads to decipher facts from shit-stirring.
It doesn’t seem to be specifically linking why people want to leave wit hthe figures they present. It first shows one set of figures about how many young people want to leave, then it starts showing other figures about what people are upset about. But not specifically why they want to leave. Being upsert about something does not automatically equate to the reason why you want to leave the country.
When I was younger I wanted to leave the UK too. Because I thought that would be a cool thing to do for a few years. This article makes no mention of motivations like that. It just seems to imply it’s becaue of “the state of the country.” Maybe some people simply want to further their career overseas, which is quite a normal thing to do.
My daughter has technically “considered” leaving to follow options in other countries in her field she’s interested in. She’s chosen not to for now but she “considered” it. Has nothing to do with what she feels about this country, so the article trying to make out that’s what this all is about is pretty misleading and par for the course for Reform propoganda right now.
Why would anyone blame them?
The UK offers nothing to young people but the weakest passport in Western Europe (youth from every other country around us can freely live and work wherever they want in Europe at their age) ever increasing cost of living, ever increasing pensions age, ever decreasing pension prospects and almost no hope whatsoever of owning a house.
Nothing reform will lie about giving them will make them stay either and if it does then more fool them for not getting out while they still can.
Meanwhile, 50% of Scots actively want to leave the UK.
Been thinking this myself lately. Probably too old for it now (30s) and I love Scotland deeply but I do sometimes wish that I could have left for a wee bit when I was younger.
Conditions in the UK as a whole are just so bleak and I can’t see it getting any better. You’re basically suffer unless you have a decent income and money in the bank.
This is just people expressing how miserable they feel about the future.
The entire country is loaded in favour of boomers, and they think they’re hard done by and entitled to more.
Labour are supposed to have come in to try and change how things have been since Thatcher and while it’s fair to say that they’ve made some progress they haven’t made enough and their planning stuff has seemingly been gutted.
England in particular has had massive population growth under the tories with them just using the extra tax to keep things going instead of spending it on infrastructure.
Up here the SNP have just allowed things to get bloated and have made no progress on housing costs etc
This is what happens when we have most of the money concentrated in the older populations, who have voted selfishly for short term personal gain over long term growth. The boomer generation, instead of working to make life better for their children, took away their future.
Now the elderly look set to waste away in massively underfunded care homes while all their homes and assets are given to overseas orgs.
If you are less than 25 and older than 18 get out. If you are leaving uni get out of get a job with a company that can provide a route out. This isn’t just Scotland but UK also. There is zero reason for a young person to stay in UK. The kind of changes need won’t happen with the current political voting system and parties.
My son graduated this year. First thing I had him do was apply for job as junior drilling operator in the Australian mines. Good pay good opportunities very hard work. Told him do that then see where you go. Only downside is your not allowed to stay in country when off work.
My daughter will be accepting uni placement in Holland for engineering cos the unis here are a joke now.
There is nothing for them here.
To go where? Since Brexit, opportunities to live and work elsewhere mid to long-term are severely limited – unless you have scarce skills the accepting country requires or – in the case of the US – a $5,000,000 ~~bribe~~ investment to get a Gold Card Visa from the Trump Kleptocracy.
Sad that so many younger folk see their futures as being potentially bleak. Perhaps we could re-do that Brexit Referendum thing again?
Weird, this isn’t what better together promised at all
Leave means leave, as Teresa used to explain.
Another way to say that would have been that 91% have no plans to leave
Of the 8%, most of those ‘plans’ will probably come to nothing
1% of the adult population leave the UK every year
We had a proper chat about it with the wife. But nah this is home.
Genuinely can’t make it better for young people in this country as the political parties just keep shovelling more towards pensioners without ever thinking the main demographic keeping their hopes of their annual P&O cruise alive aren’t gonna stick around
Regardless of whether it was true reflection, I felt fairly proud to be British (English and Scottish parents, moved to Scotland as a toddler) when i was a child of decent understanding of the world (10-14). I truly believed when watching the news that we were pretty lucky compared to others and I’d not want to move elsewhere.
That shift feels very different now and I have considered leaving. What’s stopping me is I love my area where I grew up (Glasgow) and I feel that society isn’t punished as much in Scotland compared to (particularly the south of) England, having worked there too.
It’s unsustainable how we treat people. If Brits could speak second languages, they’d be out of here much quicker. Lots of my foreign pals who’ve lived here for years have moved back home because they feel it’s increasingly better to live there.
It’s almost as if pandering to older generations pisses off younger generations. I am so shocked. Who could have seen that coming?
I’m not young, I’m in my 40, l’ve been here one a decade. I love the place, but fuck me it’s getting worse and worse. Even I’m considering leaving so I’m only surprised it’s only 1 in 4 of young people considering it.
Understandable. There are other reasons to think about it too. With the rise of the far right and in particular normalising a lot of queerphobia, I’ve started wondering if I will have to leave come the next General Election results.
Not just young people. Me and my partner are talking about the need to flee the country if it looks like Reform will win. Every day it feels like things get a little bit more unsafe for LGBT people.
Tried to, because of the B word my wife couldn’t find a job and we had to move back, shite state of affairs.
Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK, said: “It’s sad but not a surprise that ambitious young Brits are increasingly looking overseas for opportunities. High taxes and stagnant wages have crushed aspiration and punished hard work. This can’t go on. We must give the next generation the freedom to thrive, raise families, and build a bright future here in the UK.”
Ol’ Farage there giving it the big yin, as if him and his ilk are not the primary cause of this exodus!
Please, half my friends talk about leaving the UK, ranging from doing well to struggling, but they don’t actually mean it. It’s one thing to say the UK is stagnating economically, it’s another entirely to say that’s enough of a push factor to cause people to cut all their social and family ties and move abroad.
Broad Shoulders ©
Older Brit’s aren’t too confident about their financial prospects either. Not all boomers are wealthy. There’s a lot of distraction from the systemic problems this country has.
Don’t blame them to be honest,I’m gonna encourage my 2 grandkids to explore the world and see if they find their feet elsewhere cos let’s fa e it,the longer s outland is tied to westminster the worse it will be for them,,oh my,did I just turn I to an indy supporter?
But what about the millionaires!!
Ever since we voted no in 2014 I’ve been absolutely willing and keen to leave. Now things are even worse, the country as a whole (uk) is decaying in front of our very eyes, our foundational institutions are rotten, justice system is broken and two tier, political system is corrupt and perverted, our education systems are collapsing and failing, our police are nothing more than the strong arm of the government captured almost wholesale by rampant ideology. Our basic liberties are being curtailed at an ever increasing rate and our lives are getting harder and harder to survive never mind thrive.
The uk is dying, as is Scotland.
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