We’ve already lost some of our best and brightest, but it takes the biscuit when even 102-year-olds have had enough of the UK, and are leaving for more tolerable climes. It seems that those that want to live every day and get the most out of life certainly don’t want to hang around here, so Mr and Mrs Eric King-Turner of Southampton are moving to New Zealand.

And who can blame them for their choice of destination? As a part-Kiwi myself, I find it very easy to understand how the King-Turners could decide that New Zealand is a nicer place for live than this surveillance society with runaway crime levels and over-bearing tax and regulatory systems. No government under Helen Clark could be considered enlightened, but they’re not a patch on the Clunking Fists’.

The UK seems to have a revolving door migration system, under which we attract and let in foreigners (and rightly so), but repulse and repel native-born Britons. After ten years of Labour government, with all of the above societal ills and more, it’s going from bad to worse, and you can’t blame anyone for wanting to start a new life abroad, no matter how late in the day.

Will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights?