One in Two Brits Want to Quit ‘Broken Britain’ for a Move Down Under

A think tank has found that half of British people want to move to Australia, according to the Mail.

People are so fed up with ‘broken Britain’ that nearly half of them want to emigrate to get a better life, new research claims today.

In a dismal ‘state of the nation’ report, nearly one in two Britons say they believe they would be better off swapping the U.K. for Australia or New Zealand.

And neither Rishi Sunak’s Tories or Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party seem to be inspiring them to stay.

The new report comes as Western Australia has launched an audacious bid to ‘steal’ 31,000 British doctors, police officers and teachers to work in the land Down Under.

The damning verdict is revealed in new polling by Right-of-centre think tank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).

It says that three in four people fear Britain is ‘broken’ while more than half cannot name a single Tory or Labour policy to tackle poverty.

Pessimism about the state of modern society was voiced by many, along with a collapse in confidence in the mainstream political parties to turn things round.

Asked whether they could have a better quality of life and earn more in Australia than the U.K., 45% of people agreed with only 14% disagreeing.

And 44% said that was true of New Zealand.

The widespread feeling that the country is in free fall is hardly news, though I’m not sure Australia would be my choice. I don’t cope well with the sun and don’t fancy a stint in a quarantine camp when the next virus lands. Post-Ardern New Zealand may be a better shout, but the country’s elites have a lot of trust to rebuild after their zero-Covid hysteria.

But coming back to this report, a large part of the problem appears to be a lack of confidence that our wildly out-of-touch political parties can fix anything:

The research published today suggests little confidence in either the Tories or Labour to make a difference.

Mr. Sunak and former PM Boris Johnson are both seen as badly out of touch with many ordinary people, with around four in five (84%) saying that the two politicians have little idea of what it is like to live in poverty today.

Of the minority of people who could name a relevant Tory policy, most people focused on the Government’s energy support package.

When asked about the Tories’ general approach to tackling poverty, people said it was either non-existent or in some way ”bad“, with the most popular choices including “poor”, “non-existent” or “useless”.

Sir Keir fared better than his Tory rivals on knowing what living in poverty was like but still fully 66% said the Labour leader had little idea.

The most commonly cited Labour policy was raising taxes.

And although the reaction was positive about the party’s approach to combatting poverty, most responses were still negative – with the most popular one-word summaries including “poor”, “rubbish”, “benefits” and “unrealistic”.

Unless they move the GB News studio to Australia, and Bill Gates succeeds in his plan to block out the sun, I will remain here to defend our island home.

But between the cost of living, strikes, a failing health service, out of control immigration, woke insanity, and Net Zero delusion, one can hardly blame people for seeking to escape.

Worth reading in full.