The UK has become a slum country, and young people need to leave the country as quickly as possible, if they have the opportunity. This was stated in the podcast Alas Vine & Hitchens by British journalist and writer Peter Hitchens.
"This country is a mess. There are no traffic lights on the roads. Most cars have flat tires. There is no fuel. This is a disaster. And how are you, at the age of 20, whoever you are, graduating from university, going to fix this mess? It took 60 years to turn this country into a slum, which it increasingly looks like. Do you think you can fix it? I wish you good luck, that's all I can say," said Hitchens, quoted by Pool 3.
When asked where the young Britons could escape to, the journalist replied that he had no idea, since he was "not a travel agent."
"I tell people, 'If you can get out, leave.' And by "can" I mean that you have language skills. Do you have the skills in demand to go somewhere else and start a new life? And keep in mind: the longer you stay here, the more people in more and more countries around the world begin to understand what Britain really is," he added.