howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#1
My guess is that the EU will start the long process of disintegration, Poland and Hungary rocking the boat.
Disenchantment in other Eastern member states will grow, when all said and done their Governments took them in without recourse to a Referendum thinking the free money on offer overrode all other considerations. Three other member states got their independence from the Soviet Union, two from the former Yugoslavia and I doubt that many of the citizens appreciate another super power lording it over them.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#2
There will be no Queen's Speech...everything else is beyond accurate prediction!
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
Another prediction from me is there won't be yet another General Election, the two main parties don't want one as neither is likely to get much of a majority if any. The EU would love it knowing any new Government would have the same lack of credibility in negotiations as the present one.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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#4
The rise of a new Mosley.
Mr Henry Bolton
Eva Braun-style younger, blonde infatuation. CHECK.
To turn vegetatarian. Prediction.
To take up photography. Prediction.
To call Toby Young and accompany him to Eugenics seminars. Prediction.
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#5
2018 the labour party will stab its voters in the back over leaving the EU.
the Torys will try to court the young voters disastrously and end up driving away its core voters and blowing the EU deal.. giving away everything just so the spivs in the city can trade freely across Europe.
free speech will be stoped over most of the UK and Europe...especially if your being critical of Islam.
America will see its economy boom,, Trump will keep tweeting and giving the finger to the PC brigade.
And the big one for me is , war with Iran and Israel in the next 2 years?? .. I don't see Israel risking going past Trumps end of term.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1
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#7
Quite a lot of predictions;
heres some thoughts on some of them;
Really not sure Trump will survive a full term but he is stumbling through so maybe just maybe he will, but in that time he will have divided a lot of people.
I think Labour(wrongly) wants a general election, thinking it can win, but I feel they have misjudged the people. I base this on talking to people all over country and more locally, if local they have no chance of getting into number 10.
Locally the party has still to get into the communities, where its local chair said 3 months they were to do. I attended a trade unions meeting where labour came along rubbing there hands with glee when the Tory MP was suspended.
The bit local labour leaders didn't understand is that people are no more convinced theywant a labour govt than the present one.
UKIP with Farrage he just cant let go and hes making himself look silly over any second referendum.
UKIP will I'm sure pick up the odd council seat, but will lose far more, most people have lost faith in them, so they have become just a small protest party.
Interesting times ahead,.,.,
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Brian Dixon
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#8
I predict a genral election on the 3 rd Thursday of june 2018.
Captain Haddock
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Brian Dixon wrote:I predict a genral election on the 3 rd Thursday of june 2018.
No chance. I know Labour say they want a General Election but the last thing they want is to get involved with Brexit negotiations which are a poisoned chalice with a guarantee to alienate half the electorate whatever the outcome.
Much better to hang on in there sniping from the sidelines and after we have left the EU, even if we have the best of all possible arrangements, claim that IF they had been in power they would have negotiated to have jam on it!
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#10
mr fish,my precept nothing to do with labour. tory government going to pot similar to thatchers time.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Weird Granny Slater
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#12
The Bishop wrote:The rise of a new Mosley.
Mr Henry Bolton
But I thought Mosley was vain, elitist, a jumper of political parties and about as scary as an embroidery lesson in North Deal? Oh, I see where you're coming from now.
Still, blackshirts are
so last year.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#13
And, by the way, I predict a riot. Somewhere or other.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#14
The bookies don't seem very interested in who will replace Henry, only Paddy Power has a UKIP leadership bit and they are offering odds on who will replace Paul Nuttall!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#15
What on earth is the party chairman playing at here, shouldn't he be saying such things to Henry in confidence?
Besides he hasn't made the comments anyway, we all loved Tony Blair but most didn't go much on his missus.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/14/girlfriend-ukip-leader-suspended-racist-meghan-markle-remarks/Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#16
#15 look where it came from in the first place, miss booth that is.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#17
If the PM was ousted who would replace her? I don't see any stand out candidates although Boris has been positioning himself for a go at the job.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/25/tory-mps-considering-coup-against-may-as-frustration-buildsJan Higgins
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#18
Boris is a clever buffoon, but he is much to similar in some ways to Trump so I hope he never gets to be PM.
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Button
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#19
A mercurial character to be sure.
(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#20
Boris is a clever buffoon, but he is much to similar in some ways to Trump so I hope he never gets to be PM.
1) Who would I like to sit next to at a dinner party?
2) Who would I like to be on a pub quiz team with me?
3) Who would I allow my daughter to share the back of a taxi with?
At least Boris score two out of three with me.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
