My dad in the early 1960s watched the Scottish shipyard he was working in become uncompetitive against undercover Asian yards. He listened to belligerent unions aiding the demise of UK manufacturing and observed thousands of new immigrants that, according to MP Enoch Powell, would never assimilate.

All this made Dad come to the conclusion of leaving his beloved Scotland and he bundled his wife and six kids on a migrant ship to Australia. Two years later, the town shipyard closed and he had made the right decision which we thanked him repeatedly for years. As number three of those kids, at the age of 14, I was delighted to leave the small industrial town where no one had won the beauty competition for three years, and to be in Australia and there were shipyards, car plants and incentives to work hard. The place was buzzing, and opportunities were everywhere!

The UK however, is now a basket case where many hundreds of thousands of non-assimilation migrants are pulling the place down to the standards and safety of the unattractive places that they came from.

Compliments of repeated Labor Party policies in Australia, I now find myself in the same position as my dad. The manufacturing industry has almost totally disappeared, union thugs are demanding higher wages for fewer hours, more holidays, and more entitlements for less productivity. People who will never assimilate are being allowed in the country by the thousands.

Now in April 2025, who would believe that there is more than a remote chance of the hopeless Albanese government being re-elected after three years of destroying 31,000 businesses, the gill net fisheries, the live sheep industry, gold mines, the mining industry, and stuffed the disposable income of every household as well as the national economy? These dummies haven’t even connected energy security to National security. There is absolutely nothing that Australia could be proud of with this government.

We all know that the burgeoning state and federal bureaucracies throughout the country, and the NDIS, are bleeding the economy and encouraging rorting on a grand scale by people who will no doubt support Albo, but not a trace of strong leadership in sight.

We are an incredibly rich country that has over 35 trillion dollars of resources under our feet, all captive to decades of green rules and regulations, many of those impediments focused on trying to appease the UN’s bogus ideology fantasies. Global warming? Sea level rises? What utter rot!

We have lost the respect of the US, Israel, and many other nations with our weak, Woke, leftist, socialist programs. We are allowing people into the country that are openly hostile to every value that we hold dear. Now not only our economy is weak, so is our defence capability, and our biggest trading nation is sabre rattling and spoiling for a fight.

Is it just me or is the prosperity of our nation diminishing proportionally with the number of Christians as per the latest census?

Despite great right-wing performers like Jacinta Price, Alex Antic, Matt Canavan, Pauline Hanson, Clive Palmer, Peter Dutton, and Lyle Shelton, there is no credible strategy that is appealing to the average Australian. We need a straight-talking leader telling us what we need and what we want to hear.

So for the 5.5million people employed in small businesses, yes it would be time to consider leaving the country.

So where do we escape to if Albo gets re-elected?

The good news is yes there are some escape destinations. A few of my pals have moved their businesses and families to Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines and all are prospering in those nations that offer real incentives.

Australia has an increasing list of disincentives such as payroll tax, an ever-increasing mountain of red, green, and black tape rules, and regulations, over-the-top wages and conditions resulting in an unmotivated workforce who are still down the Covid rabbit hole of entitlements demanding, with pursed lips, to work from home.

As the owner of two small businesses, I can tell you that if Albo is returned, I will close one down and move the other, a technology company, to the US, because Trump is making it attractive with sensible incentives.

Personally, I like the Pacific and Hawaii appeals to me as a US destination for the business. Exactly halfway from Brisbane to Hawaii lies the idyllic nation of Samoa. For a semi-retirement occupation I have, last week applied, for the post of Harbour Master in the port of Asau on the island of Savai’i. As this port has been unused for 20 years and the entry channel is overdue for a dredging campaign, my offer of a zero salary may attract a swift approval for the position.

Unless the lily livered Coalition can pull a rabbit out of their hat and Albo gets re-elected, those companies, large and small, who have had a taste of left-wing Labor promises of ‘free stuff’, will be off.

Don’t say I didn’t tell you!