Here in the land of Nostadamus it seems only reasonable that I should put on my Magi's cap and do a spot of divining, however depressed I may be feeling.
I see great woes ahead:
- Earnings will fall in real terms.
- Pensioners will struggle as real inflation climbs.
- The pound will soar to start with, leading to a Trade Gap crisis.
- Give it a year or two and we shall have riots in a variety of places.
- The NHS will cease to be universally free at the point of need within three years.
- The tax dodgers will be ignored, even encouraged.
- A pogrom against welfare claimants will begin.
- Immigration will be heavily curbed and deportation increased.
- Regressive taxes will rise.
- House prices will soar along with rents.
- A new age of Rachmanism will be ushered in (if you cannot remember look it up).
- Virtually no new affordable houses will be built but mansions will be plentiful.
- University fees will rise.
- Grammar schools will come back but all secondary schools will charge tuition fees.
- Personal debt will soar and the City will get ever richer.
- The national debt will decline by transferring it to the private sector, feeding a further boom in profits.
- Fracking in Surrey will cause land slips and a mass fall in the value of property.
- The British Army will be privatised. The RAF scrapped and the Royal Navy absorbed into a new Coastal Survey Unit. Trident will be handed over to the US officially.
- A new banking crisis will occur in 2019 and the banks will be bailed out again instead of small investors.
- An EU referendum will be inconclusive and Dodgy Dave will attempt to quit the EU, leading to a massive run on the pound and the introduction of currency controls (once again!). The Channel Tunnel will be closed due to under-use.
- Scotland will take the UDI route and remain in the EU; mass migration into Scotland from the north of England will begin.
- Wales and Northern Ireland will seek independence and there will be hostilities.
- The Labour party will flap about for a new leader for years until Nicola Sturgeon moves to England and wins a by-election; she will be elected leader of the Labour Party.
- No one will remember UKIP or the Lib Dems by 2019.
- There will be an assassination during 2019 followed by a snap election after a vote of no-confidence.
- England, the Independent Monarchy of, will become a tax haven ruled from Liberia by a group of Etonians, headed by... yeah, well who else!
