Sunday 2nd October

Well, 2016 had turned out to be quite a momentous year.  The Referendum, Mr. Cameron gone and soon forgotten, the re-run of Labour’s leadership election and Donald Trump elected as President of America.  And now looking back from the vantage point of 2036 we have to wonder what all the fuss and furore was about.  Both Britain and the USA are ruling supreme again.  Trump not only stood up to Putin but faced him down over his territorial claims to half of Lithuania.  Putin as we know refused to back down and lined his tanks up on the border, but it was Trumps master-stroke of dropping a, fairly small as it turned out, nuke on a small city in Kamkatcha in ’22 that won the day.  Putin’s retaliation was feeble and his planes were blown out of the sky before they left Russian territory.  As it happened that was the beginning of the end for Putin, his whole regime collapsed as the Oligarchs fled with their ill-gotten gains (most to London) and a real Democracy emerged from the ruins; the new rulers immediately agreed to get rid of all their nuclear weapons and World Peace broke out.  China, which we were all scared of turned out to be the mouse that never roared, turning in on itself as their economy collapsed in the Twenties, and even Isis slowly withered on the vine as the new generation of Muslim kids turned their backs on Radicalism.

Here in Britain, against all the odds, Mrs. May got a fantastic deal from Europe.  Access to the single market and free movement of people provided they had a job to go to; essentially these were six month contracts, renewable for up to three years.  And as we were technically out of the EU we could and did negotiate trade deals with almost everyone; Britian showing the World how it was done.  We thrived and by 2030 were the third largest economy in the World, we even had our own electric automobile industry.  Hinkley point was cancelled by EDF when the thing was half built, forcing the Government to make a massive investment in renewables which now provide almost two thirds of our power.  Labour made a brief return to power in ’25 in coalition with the SNP and UKIP, which only lasted eighteen months before collapsing and the Tories returned with Boris at the helm.  Donald Trump Junior won the 2024 US election and his father returned in ’32 as he had managed to change the constitution in his last year in 23, a grand old man of 85 but still a wonderful statesman.

Ringggg..ringgg…my hand goes out and switches off the alarm clock, it is still 2016.  Like Bobby coming out of the shower it was all a dream….hahaha