please empty your brain below

A heavy read this morning. The scary bit is some of it could happen.
2037: Bow Bus Stop M still not fixed
This is not the wildest forecast relating to the risk of a plunge into the unknown that I have seen.

DG, you have worked wonders on a forecast covering all the main bases of the campaign. Perhaps you could add that the NHS collapses because the non expert demands that all applicants for hospital doctors from abroad should have PhDs because they got the definition of a doctor from Wikipaedia and looked at the wrong page.
Has anyone considered the possibility that the result of the referendum is a tie?
For many of 'us' it won't make a blind-bit of difference either way.

So I 'vote' option 3...don't care.
But what of Bus Stop 'M' ?!
Spoken like a true Remainer.
Whatever happens, it's not going to be pretty and there will be YEARS of blame and I Told You So's from both sides! :(
At some point, as suggested by Tony Travers and others, London might by referendum declare independence from (little) England on order to remain in the EU. Then TfL buses would have<-i> to turn round at the boundary.
2024: The Queen celebrates her 108th birthday.

dg writes: 98th, maybe.
June 24 (6pm): Michael Gove is sworn in as stopgap Prime Minister

This is the scariest bit for me.
Both results could be bad, remember UKIP came second in many Labour seats, even if there is a remain vote, people may conclude that Labour no longer represents their views, so like the SNP did in Scotland, UKIP may still make a wider breakthrough in the next election.
2033: Government laughs at post-EU debacle and says "we told you so"

Which government.
Probably the Russian government, since they're the only government supporting Brexit.

Or possibly the World Government.
I rarely add any political notes in my diary but I did on the election of a certain past PM. The note was me indicating some potential game-changing changes (unspecified) that would likely arise as a result. So it proved in fact. The next thing I rarely do is voice a political view, or lay my 'cards' on the table viz the same. I did so on the election of our current PM. sadly, what I said on his election has also proved true. Yesterday, I caught myself voicing a definite option on the EU election. Uh oh!
You missed the bit where London votes for independence from the UK, perhaps in a federation with Scotland.
Robots will not be able to take over because the rising sea will be destroying them all.
June 30th. Murdoch announces retirement.

Surely the one result all sound-thinking folk can get behind.

What a day that will be.
Oh yes.
You forgot to suggest a date for when the Ration Books will be distributed.
Unless I've miscounted Liz should reach a hundred years in 2026. She likely will reach a hundred. Well, her Mum did.
"Winter 2019: Channel Tunnel rail services end after France refuses to restrain migrants at Calais"

That's actually not that fanciful..
@Patrickov

not the waterproof ones, it won't.
1935 - Much of England, Scotland and N. Ireland is uninhabitable after King Trump has his hair insulted by Boris Johnston. London survives because that's where all the Kingdom of America's gun money is kept. They missed out Wales - they didn't know it existed!

The 298 is "temporarily curtailed" at Cockfosters due to half-incinerated human remains blocking the junction with the M25.
I'm keeping this. It may not be too far from the truth. Little of it seems overly fanciful. :-(
Feb 2017 " Civil Service announces it will no longer be run by experts"

Surely that has been the case for years?
Re Bob L-S you might like to look at the arrangements in Ticino which crosses the border between Italy & Switzerland.
2016-32 will be a good deal more "interesting" (in the Chinese curse way) for EU-27 than DG has chosen to refleck here. Many of those developments will affect the UK in a variety of ways, just as developments 2000-16 have. The arrival in London of many bright, determined young people from Portugal Italy Greece & Spain, for example, has benefited London in some ways; but it imposes significant human social political -oh and economic- costs on the countries from which those people come.
"vote leave take back control" or "remain because voting leave is bad". honestly, i might just not vote.
I do hope that you're not clairvoyant DG
So when does Nigel Farage get his K?
@shirozkazan: Still they cannot stay out of water enough for them to go on. I bet most of them will sink.
Excellent post - now that the UK has indeed voted to leave this summary is a nice antidote to Farage's grinning face and the gloating amongst the jingoistic gutter press.
"Winter 2019"

A more likely situation:

November 2019 Sangatte camp closed as no-one is trying to sneak into the UK any more.

December 2019. Sangatte hastily re-open to cope with the number of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the EU from the UK. The fleet of unsuitable craft being used by the migrants evokes headlines in the Daily Mail about the "Dunkirk spirit"










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