Thread by @Angry_Voice

If you're terrified of @jeremycorbyn's radical hard-left economic plans, I've got some REALLY IMPORTANT ADVICE for you, should he become Prime Minister [thread]

You'll obviously be thinking about leaving the UK, but you'll want to be extra careful to avoid making the mistake of relocating to countries that already have scary hard-left policies like commie Corbyn's in place ... so you'll need to draw up a "No Go" list ...

If it's tuition-free university education you're afraid of, then Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Greece, Argentina, India, Brazil, Mexico ... are out of the question.

Add them to your "No Go" list now.

If it's slightly increasing Corporation Tax to 26% from the all-time low rate the Tories have reduced it to since 2010, that rules out Canada, Japan, Australia, Colombia, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Pakistan, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Peru, Kenya, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, South Africa ...

Italy, Morocco, Chile, Monaco, Uganda, Cuba, Tunisia, Philippines, Namibia, Nepal, Jamaica, Guyana, DR Congo, Bangladesh ...(also many others already mentioned - France, Germany Belgium, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina ...)

All of these countries have Corporation Tax rates above Corbyn's proposed rate of 26%, so add them all to your "No Go" list now.

Corbyn wants to roll out super-fast broadband, so if you're terrified of that, then Japan, South Korea, and Uruguay are out of the question too, because they've achieved almost 100% universal super-fast broadband coverage.

If it's a National Investment Bank that's making you quake in your boots, then Norway is now absolutely out of the question because they've used their North Sea oil dividends to build the richest sovereign wealth fund on the planet, despite only having a population of 5 million!

Other countries with sovereign wealth funds that you'll have to add to your 'No Go' list include Singapore, China, India, Hong Kong, UAE, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Angola, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Qatar, Malaysia, Iran, Trinidad and Tobago, Russia, Brunei, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Gabon,

Turkey, Oman, Bahrain, Algeria, Venezuela, Ireland, Botswana, Panama, Senegal, Iraq, Kiribati, Mongolia, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Turkmenistan, Rwanda & Palestine (as well as many others already on your list like Germany, Mexico, Ireland, S. Korea, Canada, Australia, France ...)

When it comes to Corbyn's plans to bring the railways back under public ownership, nations with public not-for-profit rail systems to avoid include the Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Portugal, Hungary, Switzerland, Albania,

Czech Republic, (100% owned by Austria's state railway), Estonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Serbia (56%), Liechtenstein (owned by Austria's state railway), Bulgaria (remember other 'no go' countries like France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia, Ireland... too)

If publicly owned rail scares you silly, you'll also have to stay off trains in the UK, because under the Tories' crackpot rail privatisation agenda 74% of UK rail services are now operated by the state railways of foreign governments (Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Italy ...)

You'll have noticed that I only bothered with Europe for the publicly-owned railways, and basically every country in Europe has been added to your 'no go' list now, and I've not even got to public water & energy distribution which are absolutely commonplace across the world.

In some of the few places on earth ever to have privatised their water supply (eg Argentina & Bolivia) strong public resistance has resulted in eventual renationalisation. If not-for-profit drinking water upsets you, you're going to have to plan your travels very carefully indeed

Also very few countries have ever allowed their entire electricity transmission and distribution network (about the most obvious natural monopoly it's possible to think of) to fall into private hands.

So check carefully. Maybe Somalia's energy supply is privatised?

One of the countries you've not had to add to your 'No Go' list so far is Israel, but Israel Electric Corporation is government owned, so add them now.

You may be desperately holding out hope on one major nation I've not mentioned yet 🤔, thinking that they're definitely more right-wing than the UK, but you'd be wrong.

In the United States lots of infrastructure and public investment is devolved to state level, where not-for-profit state operated water supplies and electricity grids are commonplace.

Also several US states have Sovereign Wealth Funds (Alaska, Texas, Utah Idaho, Oregon ...).

The US colony of Puerto Rico has a government owned electricity supply too, so you can't hope to settle there on a technicality either.

I'm afraid that if Jeremy Corbyn's policies are too scary for you, you're just going to have to stay away from the United States, because of their frighteningly 'communist' tendencies.

You may also have noticed that I've forgotten to mention Scotland (free education, not-for-profit water) Northern Ireland (public trains), and Wales (not-for-profit water), so add them to your 'No Go' list now.

The Isle of Man is also out of question for their tiny (but terrifying) state owned railway too, just in case you were wondering.

So it turns out that if you're absolutely bricking it about Corbyn's scary policies then you'd better stay in England for the rest of your life, avoiding the rail network, continually checking for "Reds Under the Bed!", and praying that the Tories never, ever, lose an election!