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An island with boats, international airports, and a Chunnel.

I wouldn't be willing to bet much money that he couldn't get out of the country if he were free and of a mind to flee.

As European countries come England is the hardest to get in and out of and it's not like Julian Assange is not going to be recognized on sight by half a million people at least by now.

The boats all leave from ports where there are customs inspections, crew and captains who would all not be too happy giving shelter to a fugitive, international airports need a pass by immigration and the chunnel does too.

Lots of illegals make it in and out of Britain but they don't start off as high profile fugitives.

I think you're giving him too much credit. The best he could probably do is go to ground inside England but even that is not that simple.

No, I think you're overestimating the difficulty of leaving a country illegally, even England. Assange isn't a poor "illegal", he's a guy with money and ideological supporters.

You can quite literally get into a yacht anywhere on the coast and sail away. Nobody will stop you. I've done it many times.

Or a fishing boat. Or Hell, a small motorboat or even a rowboat.

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