Looking back across the globe to country I was born and raised in, there’s a phrase I keep coming back to: subsidising decline.
That’s what staying in Britain under Labour feels like.
You earn, you invest, you take risks – and then you watch your rewards siphoned off to fund bureaucracy, inefficiency, and a state that long ago lost its appetite for discipline.
Many will say leaving is unpatriotic.
I’d argue the opposite. To remain in Britain today, handing over the fruits of enterprise to feed a bloated system, is to betray the very values that once made Britain strong.
The nation flourished when it championed enterprise, self-reliance, and responsibility. Those values don’t vanish simply because I carry them abroad. In fact, I live them more fully by refusing to fund decline.
Economics begins with a simple truth: every person acts in their own best interests. That is simply utilitarian rationality. It’s how markets work, how progress is made, how wealth compounds. Thatcher understood this.
Strip away the slogans and the ideology, and you find one principle: give people the freedom to act in their own interest, and the nation rises with them.
But when acting in your own best interests requires leaving, the moral choice is clear.
I don’t owe it to Britain to stay and bankroll mediocrity. I owe it to myself, and to the principles Britain once stood for, to thrive where I’m free.
Remaining in the UK under Labour would mean subsidising decline. Whilst some may decry leaving as abandoment, for me it is continuity. I embody British values wherever I go. Not in theory, but in practice.
For me, I can think of nothing more unpatriotic than subsidising the decline of the country I served.
So call it what you will.
For me, it’s simple: You turn if you want to. The Insularist’s not for turning.
Not toward tax, not toward bureaucracy, not toward subsidising decline.