Would you ever leave?
Something I’ve been thinking about a bit in the last few days is the following question:
Are there political circumstances, less than dictatorship or communism etc, that would make you leave the UK for another country, say the USA?
For instance, for all conservatives reading, suppose that Britain became very obviously a region in a European state. Suppose that we approached Swedish levels of taxation. Suppose the counties lost virtually all power to regional assemblies. Suppose Parliament lost all power to Brussels. All weights and measures everywhere must be solely metric including distance and beer. Suppose our military was unable to act independently of Continental political support. Suppose the United States no longer considered us a partner militarily or diplomatically. Suppose the common law was rationalised into a Roman system to permit greater integration. Suppose that Britain was a republic, with proportional representation and state funded political parties. Suppose there were European taxes, a harmonised exam system at 16 and 18, and a common European university degree qualification. Suppose the European Social Model and Polly Toynbee triumphed completely.
Would you stick around? Or would you prefer to live in a country that respected your political beliefs, and was created from the traditions that had been destroyed in Britain?
For myself, I really don’t know. I love my country, but like Rand, maybe I demand reasons to love it as well.