As a British citizen, a young man who has spent the last 21 years learning how grate his home country used to be, I am now desperate to leave before it becomes a laughing stock.

Britain has never had consistently hot sunny summers and cold snowy winters, Britain is not a big island, especially when compared to the likes of Russia, USA and Canada and British countries are far from the best at sports. All this taken into consideration, Britain need to be great at something to avoid becoming the fast fall into a ‘nothing’ country.

Britain used to be a great country, it used to have great powerful leaders. Britain won the war! The international language of the world is English and Scotch is drank world-wide. The Welsh give us great music and the Northern Irish… well the Northern Irish have a fantastic accent, is about as much as I can think of.

Now, however, with a muppet in charge, rising taxes, constant threats of war to aid other countries, depsite our own being in a mess, MP’s abusing the expenses system to a ridicuolous degree, and the failure of every major motor manufacturer, there’s not a lot to shout and scream about.

Eastern Europeans and many Asians want to come and join our questionable society and our rapidly declining country. This decision is understandable. The majority of immigrants may enter the country without too much fuss, get a house paid for and live on benefits until they find employment. Some people will not like to read this, however it is the opinion of many.

British born and bred, however, who have been working, paying national insurance and taxes for years and who are now, due to the econmic situation finding themselves unemployed, do not receive the help they deserve from the government. The British government now suggest that they should get by on £40 a week despite paying hundreds each week in tax for years whilst employed.

I was delighted to discover in April that I will be a father at the end of the year, however obviously was worried about the financial side of things. I’m expected now to rent a house, along with pay the bills that go with it, pay off previous debts, insure car to get to work, feed a family and provide all neccesities for a child on £1,200 per month. Without boring you with too much detail, this is a very tight budget. If I was to resign from work however, I would have benefits coming out of my ears, I would have rent paid for in full by the government, I would have free dental care, free eye care and free prescriptions.

This country does not do enough to reward the people who are trying their hardest to keep it going, however offer plenty of positives to the idea of not working and living on benefits. I must admit I would love to lie in bed until 11-12 o’clock every day, then get up, have a brew and breakfast, watch Jeremy Kyle, pop into the pub for an hour, come back and mess around on the laptop for a while, then complain at 9.00pm that I’m tired… But unfortunately I have to go to work to put food on the table for my pregnant girlfriend, and build a home for our imminent new arrival.

The answer to this, Canada all the way… however if my plan to emmigrate to Canada does ever come off, I will arrive in the country ready to earn my keep. I will plough every spare minute I have into earning money to build a better standard of life, and apart from friends, parents, brothers, neices and nephews that may be left behind, I can not think of one reason for which I would return.

Oh, and one last thing, if Canadians spoke an unfamiliar language to me, I’d make the effort to learn it before I arrived, not just request an interpreter!

It was once Great Britain, but it’s difficult to think of many great things about it now.