Is Britain turning into another California?

Tuesday-Wednesday blog

Yes, there it is – possibly the stupidest title for a blog ever written? After all you can hardly compare dull, dismal Britain to sunny, joyous California. And, I suspect most of us would much rather be living in the sunshine and freedom of California than in Starmer’s depressing, increasingly communist, freedom-crushing Britain.

But there are some possibly surprising similarities between Britain and America’s once most economically-successful state. For a start, with a GDP of around $4.0 trillion, California’s GDP is fairly similar to Britain’s $3.96 trillion. If California were a country it would be the 6th largest in the world with Britain at 7th place.

But the greatest (and most worrying) similarity between California and Britain is that both are run by politicians who are actively trying to destroy their economies and impoverish their people due to their obsession with ever more regulations and achieving completely pointless Net Zero targets.

I haven’t seen ths story anywhere in Britain’s mainstream media. In fact I wasn’t aware of this similarity till a couple of days ago. I was watching a YouTube video about economics. In the sidebar I noticed a video about US oil giant Chevron closing down its California operations and leaving the state completely. Because I watched that video, the YouTube algorithm proposed a whole series of other videos about major US companies – Space-X, Oracle, Palantir, Airbnb, Hewlett Packard and, most recently, Tesla – all leaving California.

Why are they leaving? Because California governor, Gavin Newsom, affectionately known as Grabbin Newscum by many Californians, has declared that California will become the greenest US state and this will supposedly create hundreds of thousands of well-paid ‘green’ jobs. Does this sound vaguely familiar to Ed Miliband’s crusade to make Britain a ‘green energy superpower’ which will supposedly create hundreds of thousands of well-paid ‘green’ jobs?

How will Newscum achieve this? By setting up regulators to dream up ever more restrictive regulations covering water quality, ground quality, building control and much more. In addition he will force all businesses to become ‘carbon neutral’ (whatever that means) or be compelled to buy economically-crushing carbon credits and/or risk massive fines and will impose deadlines after which it will be illegal to buy petrol powered cars and much else.

So, how is it going for California? California is de-industrialising and hundreds of thousands of jobs are being lost instead of being created. Many businesses, including high-tec companies, are packing up and leaving for states like Texas, Nevada and Florida which welcome them.

Newscum is creating the same doom-loop of decline in California that Miliband is forcing on the UK:

• increase industry’s and business costs making companies close down or move their operations to more business-friendly jurisdictions
• this reduces the tax take so taxes have to be increased to make up for the losses
• higher taxes make more companies move or close completely
• this reduces the tax take even more so taxes have to be increased even more to make up for the losses
• and so on

If you go onto YouTube and put ‘California governor in shock’ into the Search bar, you’ll get a whole lot of videos reporting on how company after company are leaving California. There’s also a rather amusing satirical video called ‘Hotel California Parody: Welcome to the State You’ll Never Leave‘.

Here’s just one of the serious videos about companies leaving California. I’ve linked to it as it describes quite well the doom-loop of decline being imposed on both California and Britain by their Greta-worshipping governments.

Still, in spite of the economic disaster and impoverishment of their people, at least California has better weather than Britain: