Daily Telegraph article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...last-year.html

Have you not read this thread?

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=831947

There's another link about this, I think nearly half a million foreigners left Spain last year. Plus many thousands of Spanish, last one out, turn off the lights! Oh, they are already out, another apagón! I heard the King tried to get out, but his aircraft was unserviceable again.

4.7 million Brits leave the UK....last one out turn off the lights ! etc etc etc
http://www.theguardian.com/global-de...ills-shortages
Just as an anecdote as to why it's difficult to believe any stats - it's getting hard to walk in several barrios in Madrid without hearing American or British accents. This is because thousands have been employed on a auxiliar scheme (to add to the English teacher population already working here), yet many of them will not be counted as permanent residents (they leave in June/July and have to re-apply if working the following year).

how true is this ??
well probably there is an element of truth, but............
they don't tell you how many left the UK for Spain, so it is a typical Knock Spain report we have come to expect.

I for one was never asked where I was going nor for how long.

but also just remember that the UK has no idea how many people it has entering the country despite a £500million computer system
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...els-rules.html

Lies, damned lies, and statistics...

But perhaps even more amusing is dismissing what's in plain sight.



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