Rolling Thread of people who are going to leave Britain because it's no longer Great.

Ray Winstone

Get out.
We left 2001.
No regrets.
In a few years all Britain will be like Nil By Mouth.
Ferral.

Colin 'Ferral'?

i left Britain a couple of years ago now. i didn't like how promiscuous everyone had got.

As long has his daughter fucks off as well, we can probably chalk this off as a good thing.

In an interview with Live Magazine, the actor also criticised the NHS, adding: "I see people going into hospital and coming out worse with MRSA."

Those are not the lyrics to "what a wonderful world"

It's every bit as Great as it used to be, it's the same size isn't it? *shoves glasses back on to bridge of nose* <------ a geographical pedant writes

coastal erosion is a keen passion of Ray Winstone's

I'm leaving Missenden, it's no longer as Great as it used to be

Ray Winstone is a cunt. Oh woe for the all the taxes he pays, it must be so terrible for him.

Seem to remember him bitching about the congestion charge a year or so ago and telling people to vote for Boris.

watching that cunt boris' documentary about the start of islam taught me more about the religion than i ever did at school or whatever, and i learnt bugger all watching it. no wonder we the country is full of racist bastids. still, if they are leaving 1 at a time, kudos.

Instead of Winstone saying he's going to leave, maybe he could stay and do something about the "state" of that country? But he's not going to, because for him and all the commenters on the Telegraph website, it's too much effort for them to actually do something.

"Well, don't look at me! I aint gonna tell you what to do!"

Instead of Winstone saying he's going to leave, maybe he could stay and do something about the "state" of that country?

Like what, go out the streets in order to growl at hoodies?

And in any case, if it weren't for them people, he wouldn't have had his job in the first place!

(xpost) Maybe he could be a role model? He's said in interviews that boxing as a teenager kept him out of trouble. Why doesn't he get involved with that?

Open the drama schools of Britain to feral children

Because he is a typical Brit (Essex branch). Much better to moan and bitch about the state of things than do anything about it. It has always been thus.

xp

I wonder what Bev Bevan makes of it all

He'd move, but he's got an upcoming tour with Carl Wayne and the Vikings II, without Carl Wayne, to do.

dudes like this are like the british Joe The Plumbers

Earns considerably more than Joe the Plumber.

not markedly more intelligent than Joe tho.

fuck this guy, seriously. Love Honour Obey is possibly the worst movie I have ever seen in the cinema, and he's exactly the sort of hollow tosser who appeals to fake cockneys and fake hardmen.

ross kemp emerges from this farrago with plenty of credit

There's a longer version of the interview here.

I guess the obvious place for me to go is America, but maybe I’ll consider France or Italy.

So it's not really about tax then, if Italy and France are in the frame?

And I wonder why the Telegraph missed off the rest of this sentence?

I see people going into hospital ill and coming out worse with an MRSA bug they’ve picked up from an unclean ward. And I see so many people coming into this country that we can’t cope.

Has RW actually done anything decent since Nil By Mouth?

Since he was twice bankrupted by the Inland Revenue in the past it's little wonder he's got a problem with taxes.

Well, if he does go, we should send Ben Kingsley after him. to STAY THERE!

57% of the current population of Adelaide (who moved to Adelaide because they need less immigration points than to move to any other Australian city).

Winstone's right. Britain's a rude, garish, uncivic mess. I moved to Berlin a few years ago and have no desire to live in Britain ever again.

Nick Currie
on December 02, 2008
at 04:24 PM

Momus reads the Telegraph? I might have guessed.

Garish?

How common.

if you complain about something, you are responsible for it. FACT?

57% of the population of Adelaide are what? Ex-brits?

No wonder they've got problems.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24414294-2682,00.html

Adelaide sounds just the kind of place for monay Brits to live.

# Parking goes: Bike lane trial for city street
# Arrest thwarted: Teen murder suspect dies
# Inquest: System failed autistic teen: Coroner
# Murray Bridge: Elderly woman indecently assaulted
# Court: Man jailed for child porn offences
# Mallala: Grassfire near gas pipeline
# O'Sullivan Beach: All-night siege ends
# Court sequel: Victim confronts cowardly rapist
# Resignation demanded: Child chemotherapy bungle
# RAA awards: Ford Falcon roars to first place
# Victims elated: Justice for GP's teen sex victims
# Coroner: Bodies held in Adelaide morgue for a week

Meanwhile Tim Cahill is NOT LEAVING BRITAIN.

I feel a poll comin on..

# Arrest thwarted: Teen murder suspect dies ftw!

Do caek and I get honorable mentions for fleeing blighty?

Adelaide is well known for its bizarre murders:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/12/1063341772043.html

I have nothing against anyone leaving. It's the argument that they are leaving Britain because it has SUDDENLY become some kind of hellhole that I object to. Especially if they are leaving because they can't take a bit of rain.

why did they go there in the first place?

GO HOME SAXONS, WE NEVER WANTED YOU HERE TO BEGIN WITH.

(well, i say we, but obviously.....)

I wish I knew what KBP was referring to, according to wiki 23.7% of AAdelaideans were born overseas and only 7.3% are Brits.

(xxpost)
"It says 'Romans Go Home'!"
"No it doesn't"

I wish I knew what KBP was referring to, according to wiki 23.7% of AAdelaideans were born overseas and only 7.3% are Brits.

IT FELT LIKE 57 PER CENT WHEN I LIVED THERE. And an awful lot of them do live in Elizabeth...

Thankfully I live in Sydney now, which is full of nice azn girls.

through the ethere, the fingers on the glass move, and they say....

Mark, I wonder if you'd be kind enough to post something on that thread to the effect that this "Nick Currie" comment in the Torygraph is not from me?

Cheers, and regards to the massive --I do still lurk.

Nick

Wouldn't it have been quicker just to post it himself?

I dunno, he'd have to register, etc.

Plus that court case said he wasn't allowed to post to the internet for 10 years.

From now on I will take into account the fact Momus is reading before each of my posts

Hi Momo!

Luvvie Darling to thread

Alastair to you, sunshine

He'll be on the dole soon too!

He can always go back to lawyering (and earning more money probably - and then he'll have to pay more tax so the joke will be on him...).

Stupid cow

Cameron interview in the Spectator this week...

[i]Which British artist would he most like to be painted by? ‘Tracey Emin.’</>

LOL, he's such a twat

This story or possibly 'story' was trailed on the front page of last weekend's Sunday Times, with the suggestion that there were a growing number of rich and/or famous people eg footballers considering the same move - when you actually read it this amounted to Arshavin saying some months back that he didn't realise how much tax he was expected to pay here when he moved. Lame

Well, he shrugged it off...

Footballers, barely able to scrape £264k together to do this to a Bentley.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/04/article-1218054-06B18BF3000005DC-512_634x350.jpg

Was tempted to start a thread on Stephen Ireland's cars

http://www.boxofficefootball.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/irelands-car-stephen1.jpg

Jesus H Corbett

surely everyone has seen his pink hummer by now?

(and you can read that any way you like tbh)

Top rate of income tax in the UK - 50%
Top rate of income tax in China - 45%

Blimey, Communism isn't what it used to be.

The Range Rover is just a bit of spray paint on the grille and rims, but that Bentley is inexcusable. Over a quarter of a million for a car that looks like an elogated Vauxhall Nova with plastic skirts?

"If you hate Britain that much, go and live in Communist China" - takes on a whole new meaning

"So much here is simply not working now," she said. "The taxes are too high, there aren't enough incentives to work hard

Emin, whose best-known works include Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 – a tent into which she stitched her bedfellows' names

she is having to pay tax for literally every other person she slept with. britain of today is imposing tax on passion! brown out.

I'm trying to get my head around why the likes of Emin get funded in the first place. Is she actually a draw to entice tourists, businesses, etc to old blighty? Is the vague sense that Britain is a groovy place down to her and her ilk? It can't be the art, can it?

Don't you want Britannia to be Cool?

i've avoided london as a destination because of tracey emin.

BTW I'm staking a claim on "Cruel Britannia" now so when the Daily Mirror uses it to cover Cameron's election next year they can pay me some royalties.

"At least in France their politicians have always understood the importance of culture and they have traditionally helped out artists with subsidy and some tax advantages."

Yes, even the rapists

Bagsy "Stool Britannia" for when Britain goes down the toilet.

i've started a justgiving page to raise funds for poverty stricken tracy emin's relocation to france.

"Moules Britannia" when Gallic-prepared seafood becomes our staple diet

We'd need a referendum before that was allowed to happen

jools' britannia for when jamie oliver's missus takes over and sorts it bang out bish bosh boom

in league with our favourite hootenanny presenter and smarmy git

xxpost and you'd only get half as many moules as you would in france because you're paying 50% of it in tax if you earn over £150000 a year.

and some joules (energy! power! in every home)

jason euell

stubborn as a moule

france gall

NV, be mortified Nick Cohen got there first.

Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous By the Sinister and the Preposterous

double accrual britannia, for when the accountants take over

Zeuhl Britannia (everyone is obliged to communicate in made-up languages as bizarre European prog unfolds around them)

Tool Britannia! Oh, wait...

school britannia, because you guys need to get with the whole knowledge economy synergy program

HOOS Britannia

I was trying to find Stevie G wrapped in a Union Jack, but this is way cooler:

http://www.soccer24-7.com/forum/customavatars/avatar15268_13.gif

(also fits Tool Britannia, except for the 'Britannia' bit)

Gruel Brittania, where the budget for School meals is cut...

And Oliver Letwin asks for more

XD

NV, be mortified Nick Cohen got there first.

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Oh! he's not the same person as Nik Cohn after all.

IT'S A COMEDY EXODUS!
Stephen Fry hints he is planning on following in fellow comedian Ben Elton's footsteps by leaving Britain

Thanks Stephen for voting LABOUR in ; then when it all begins to go belly. up ,YOU LEAVE!!!

- sal, peterborough, 17/11/2009 10:11

^interesting def'n of 'begins' here