I totally agree with your assessment of the state of the UK. I left the place to go and live in France (another socialist paradise) for ten years before getting fed up with it, too, and moving on to Japan. I certainly don't think I'll ever be back to live in the UK: any time I ever come back I feel unwelcome (well, perhaps a little less so when I get back home to Scotland, but still...), mistrusted and threatened. Where the US is headed, the UK has been hanging out for just short of a century: it has depleted the reserves and raped the minds of its colonies and has been forced to turn upon its own, gradually reducing the life standard of the average UK citizen down to that of an Indian or African subject of the Empire of a century ago.