Sky‑high living costs 💸🏙️
Childcare they can’t afford 👶💰❌
Burnout & poor work/life balance 😩💻⏰
Rising crime 🚨
Far‑right racism 😡
…and yes, the weather 🌧️☔🌪️

Notice what they didn't say:

❌Because taxes are too high
❌There’s too many immigrants

3/9

Rather than report biased junk as many do, assuming the reason is whatever policy you don’t like, a reporter from the i Newspaper had the radical idea to actually ask those leaving why they're leaving.

inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

What did they say? 👇2/9

I'll share some more specific thoughts on it later, but please do have a look if you can.
It was an extremely DIY endeavour - lots of late nights spent wrangling charts, editing each other's prose, even learning how to build a website from scratch - so I hope it sparks plenty of debate!

He’s had a cracking half

Of course much of this was devolved out to the East India Company which only managed to administer it by virtue of becoming the biggest corporation in the world and terrible cruelty to the people they oversaw. Is this a clue as to their preferred direction?

(If I were writing British politics as an episode of The West Wing, I'd have Starmer activate the "Hail Mary" option of saying he'll rejoin the EU in a second term. Re-polarise the electorate along Brexit lines and hope the shifts in demographics/material reality force a winning coalition.)

I have a friend who claims that he ordered a Dry Martini in a bar in Germany and was handed three of them