@swatantra nandanwar - not the same Conservative party, per se - go find out what happened to the canadian PC's. The history of the various Canadian right parties is pretty well documented.

Having immigrated to Canada from the UK I must take issue with you calling it "tedious". Depends where you are, doesn't it? Montreal and Toronto and Vancouver might not quite measure up to London but they are hardly "tedious". Our population is still polite and friendly and well educated and generous and tolerant and ethnically diverse despite several years of Conservative government. (Our problem is that the center-left vote is split between 3 parties so the Cons manage to win seats and government with only 35% of the vote.) Plus we have the great outdoors. And thanks to climate change our winters are quite bareable, especially on the west coast. So come on over!

If like Lauren Booth you've got a good job and convert, I suppose it could be ok. But being an economic migrant is not as easy as it sounds. Those who are thinking should seriously talk to Poles and Asians and Afro-Carribeans here before setting out, about their experiences of migration. Its not as easy an being an expat on a fat pension whiling away time in sunnt Spain.

Sholto Byrnes,

What is it your article is trying to say? If you think it's great that a member of your family was treated in a private Hospital room Under $50 GP per night you are no better than Maggie! Do you really think that is cheap to the vast majority of people who live in that country?

I know when I'm approaching the town where I live there's the orange glow guiding me for miles, street lights on all night on every street when most of the town is fast asleep, what happened to saving the Earth?

I was astonished to find that the local Council has a Street naming Officer with two assistants and a Chief Executive who earns £40,000 than the Prime minister.

None of this has occured since May, it's been coming for years. It doesn't matter which party you vote for, it's a closed club in all three parties of University Graduates going straight into Politics and Journalism, by generation after generation and it doesn't matter how talentless they are they still run our country to their benefit!

What a load of crap, Bullingdon boys destroyed it? it was Labour & Brown that made the deficit & income disparity as well as watching over the banks, try thinking of ideas & policies rather than blame all world failures on Tories.
Tolerance & the anti immigration vote? who seriously wants 80 million in the UK?
The state is 60% of economy private sector 40% & its not working, the fat man needs to get off the skinny mans back.

It's unlikely Canada is any more accommodating of the kind of oppression of workers to the benefit of the middle class in which the modern Labour party specialises.

Don't let the door hit your ass, etc etc

"Why go back to a country so incognisant of its decline into at best middle-ranking status that its leader dare lecture China on why it ought to be a liberal democracy?"

Errrm... how about BECAUSE it is a liberal democracy?

It's not a question of who is to blame anymore. The fact is that Britain today bears no relation to the decent country of fifty years ago,and the decline has been incessant and accelerated by a series of stupid governments of all political persuasions.

I have a devised my children to leave the country as soon as they are able,and my elder daughter is doing just that. She has travelled to several countries and reports back that, whilst she loves part of Canada and would happily settle in Grand Prairie, she found that even Poland was a more pleasant and better organized place than modern Britain. She also reports that many of the places she visited in the US are much more civilized, and safe than in Dave 'the poor are always with us' Cameron's nineteenth century Britain. If I were in my late teens or twenties I would be off like a rocket.

@456. Yippee for the Mountie !
But, when will Canada 'grow up' ? ! - become a republic.

My daughter is living in Australia. She has no idea why, if given the possibility, one would stay in this miserable and mean country that Britain has now become.She has £12000 student debt but she is very unlikely to ever repay it.
With the horrendous debts the students of the future will start life with, it would not surprise me that Britain will suffer a brain drain in the near future when people realise they don't actually have to repay this outrageous debt. All they have to do is emigrate and start a new life with zero debt in a lovely country of their choice.
Have the clowns in government thought about that?
not only that but you don't even have to wait until you finish your studies. Why not go and study in another European country? Many of them even run courses entirely in English, especially Holland. As a EU student, you will pay the same as local students, which in many cases, will be .. NOTHING, like in France where University is entirely free.
If the British are not prepared to fight for their rights ( see the fuss being made about the student demo)and oppose these cuts, as some one said, they deserve every thing they get, including losing their young and their educated workforce who will go where they are better treated.Who can blame them?

If only thirty million other folk would follow suit !
No, seriously, UKGBNI be overpopulated, and, if forecasters are to be believed, things will only get worse - seventy million c.2050 - EEKS !

The Canadian Conservatives were in severe meltdown 20 years ago down to 2 seats in their House, but managed to recover and now govern. I've got absolutely no idea why.