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[Oracle]

No end to exodus of able Brits to finer climes ....

Barry and Barbara Mardell, who lived outside Bognor Regis in East Sussex, and who moved to Cyprus in April. Aged 56 and 52 respectively, they are some way off retiring, but sought a better lifestyle when forced to rely upon one salary after Mrs Mardell, a former executive with Qinetiq, the defence contractor, had to give up work on health grounds. '

'The quality of life in Britain is not what it was," says Mrs Mardell. ''Our village was no longer a real village because of over-development; we suffered every time the Government changed taxes to penalise middle- class, middle-income people and our children couldn't find work because the immigrants took all the jobs."

Now settled in Cyprus, her husband is starting his own facilities management company and they are shortly about to move into a three-bedroom detached house with swimming pool.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main. ... ate111.xml

[CopperLine]

Barry and Barbara Mardell, who lived outside Bognor Regis in East Sussex, and who moved to Cyprus in April. Aged 56 and 52 respectively, they are some way off retiring, but sought a better lifestyle when forced to rely upon one salary after Mrs Mardell, a former executive with Qinetiq, the defence contractor, had to give up work on health grounds. '

'The quality of life in Britain is not what it was," says Mrs Mardell. ''Our village was no longer a real village because of over-development; we suffered every time the Government changed taxes to penalise middle- class, middle-income people and our children couldn't find work because the immigrants took all the jobs."

Now settled in Cyprus, her husband is starting his own facilities management company and they are shortly about to move into a three-bedroom detached house with swimming pool.

Typical crap from the Torygraph. 'We had to leave cos them immigrants took our jobs'. If these people were in low paid, insecure, casualised jobs then it may have been the case that immigrants "took" their jobs. But they said they were middle class middle income people - which kinds of immigrants would be 'taking their jobs' ? Their fellow EU citizens, possibly ? And what is their solution to this non-problem - become immigrants in another EU state - where presumably they do not expect to be treated by their new hosts in the way that they had treated immigrants in Bognor.

Meet the typical anti-immigrant, economically illiterate, politically reactionary expat in Cyprus.

[Oracle]

Barry and Barbara Mardell, who lived outside Bognor Regis in East Sussex, and who moved to Cyprus in April. Aged 56 and 52 respectively, they are some way off retiring, but sought a better lifestyle when forced to rely upon one salary after Mrs Mardell, a former executive with Qinetiq, the defence contractor, had to give up work on health grounds. '

'The quality of life in Britain is not what it was," says Mrs Mardell. ''Our village was no longer a real village because of over-development; we suffered every time the Government changed taxes to penalise middle- class, middle-income people and our children couldn't find work because the immigrants took all the jobs."
Now settled in Cyprus, her husband is starting his own facilities management company and they are shortly about to move into a three-bedroom detached house with swimming pool.

Typical crap from the Torygraph. 'We had to leave cos them immigrants took our jobs'. If these people were in low paid, insecure, casualised jobs then it may have been the case that immigrants "took" their jobs. But they said they were middle class middle income people - which kinds of immigrants would be 'taking their jobs' ? Their fellow EU citizens, possibly ? And what is their solution to this non-problem - become immigrants in another EU state - where presumably they do not expect to be treated by their new hosts in the way that they had treated immigrants in Bognor.

Meet the typical anti-immigrant, economically illiterate, politically reactionary expat in Cyprus.

It looks like Barry and Barbara are from that generation of Brits that view themselves as Middle Class simply because they have done OK during the BOOM years ... but have failed in the usual Middle-Class pursuit of educating their children .... the only buffer to the BUST years that are now facing the UK ...

For it is their children that are having to compete with the better-educated, hard-working immigrants like the Poles ... and failing miserably ...

I blame the education system in the UK .....

[Eliko]

One of the strangest things about many of the British that leave their homeland in order to seek a better life elsewhere, is their constant reference to the fact that the 'Immigrants' who are making their homes in the U.K. are showing an unwillingness to adapt to the 'British ' way of life.

Yet, when they arrive here in Cyprus, they adopt the same attitudes of those that they condemn in their own country.

Do they not realize that they are also 'Immigrants' and therefore should adapt to the Cypriot way of life.

Many (not all) seem to take it upon themselves to try and change whatever they perceive to be 'wrong' with the nation and tend to establish 'Little Britains' in many of the regions of Cyprus.

Precisely the same attitudes as the 'Immigrants' are receiving so much criticism for back in the U.K.

As to the 'Social Security' position, it is hardly fair to blame the 'Immigrants' for the failures of the British government, most people would be only too pleased to accept free cash and accommodation (if that is what it truly is) regardless of which country they were in.

I am not aware of whether or not the Immigrants' in the U.K. spend much of their time grumbling about their new found homes, I do know that there is an awful lot of grumbling going on over here by the 'Immigrants FROM the U.K.

It's a funny old world.

[Niki]

Barry and Barbara Mardell, who lived outside Bognor Regis in East Sussex, and who moved to Cyprus in April. Aged 56 and 52 respectively, they are some way off retiring, but sought a better lifestyle when forced to rely upon one salary after Mrs Mardell, a former executive with Qinetiq, the defence contractor, had to give up work on health grounds. '

'The quality of life in Britain is not what it was," says Mrs Mardell. ''Our village was no longer a real village because of over-development; we suffered every time the Government changed taxes to penalise middle- class, middle-income people and our children couldn't find work because the immigrants took all the jobs."
Now settled in Cyprus, her husband is starting his own facilities management company and they are shortly about to move into a three-bedroom detached house with swimming pool.

Typical crap from the Torygraph. 'We had to leave cos them immigrants took our jobs'. If these people were in low paid, insecure, casualised jobs then it may have been the case that immigrants "took" their jobs. But they said they were middle class middle income people - which kinds of immigrants would be 'taking their jobs' ? Their fellow EU citizens, possibly ? And what is their solution to this non-problem - become immigrants in another EU state - where presumably they do not expect to be treated by their new hosts in the way that they had treated immigrants in Bognor.

Meet the typical anti-immigrant, economically illiterate, politically reactionary expat in Cyprus.

It looks like Barry and Barbara are from that generation of Brits that view themselves as Middle Class simply because they have done OK during the BOOM years ... but have failed in the usual Middle-Class pursuit of educating their children .... the only buffer to the BUST years that are now facing the UK ...

For it is their children that are having to compete with the better-educated, hard-working immigrants like the Poles ... and failing miserably ...

I blame the education system in the UK .....

The UK education system is not great but as a parent you have choices even if it means having to pay with some of that middle class salary.

In Cyprus the next generation are usually helped out far more than in the UK with homes built for daughters etc. It is far tougher to make it without this help but it is a good lesson.

[Magnus]

I think Baz and Babs need to tell the truth. They left Bognor Regis because it's shite and their kids couldn't find work there because there are no jobs in Bognor Regis unless you sell candy floss.

[Oracle]

But Bognor has a Butlin's Holiday Camp there ... it can't be all bad?

[Magnus]

But Bognor has a Butlin's Holiday Camp there ... it can't be all bad?

It is. Really, it is.

[CanDiaz]

Title of this thread is a bit misleading no? Barry & Barbara makes 2 & their kids!
They must copulate like the red crabs of Christmas Island.

[Oracle]

Title of this thread is a bit misleading no? Barry & Barbara makes 2 & their kids!
They must copulate like the red crabs of Christmas Island.

Misleading?.... not really!

I didn't want to copy the whole article ... Try clicking on the link which I gave in the Original Post ....

Up to one million more Britons are predicted to join the five million expatriates currently abroad over the next five years. But evidence suggests that, driven by the economic gloom, availability of property and the ease of working abroad via the internet, the departure rate will increase still further.

Almost two million have moved away in the past decade, according to figures released last month, with 200,000 quitting our shores in 2006, the last year for which official statistics are available.