My friend, Ewan Watt, has tagged me for ten predictions for 2009. Luke Akehurst, who Ewan also tagged, has some interesting predictions. Mine are:

1. There will be an attempt to ‘test’ Obama militarily within his first year of office
2. There will not be a General Election in the UK
3. There will not be a go-ahead for the third runway at Heathrow
4. Al Franken will win the election recount in Minnesota
5. Russia’s attempt to form an equivalent of Opec for natural gas will fail
6. The pound will reach parity with the euro for a brief time before recovering by the end of the year; it will not fall to the level of the chocolate coin.
7. Tim Pawlenty will gradually build up a more public, bipartisan profile with a view to a presidential run in 2012
8. Some of the inmates at Guantanamo Bay will still be in a state of legal limbo as the USA will not prosecute and their home countries will either not accept them or not give guarantees as to their security
9. Boris Johnson will attempt to take credit for the 2009 Stock tube trains on the Victoria line
10. I will be married!

Do please consider yourself tagged if you’d like to come up with some predictions.

I will confess to being stumped for a little while and so searched the internet for some ideas and came across a particularly hilarious set of predictions from the ‘Psychics and Mediums Network‘ and they are almost as vacuous as mine:

1. There will be an assassination attempt on Barack Obama
   (UPDATE: Looks like this one may have happened before the 2009 date predicted. There was a neo-nazi assaination plot foiled on 27th October 2008. Note that these predictions were posted on the 9th October 2008)
2. There will be serious tensions within Europe as the Euro free falls with both France and Germany threatening to leave.
3. Gordon Brown will be forced out of office and an early election will be called.
4. A number of C of E bishops and senior ecclesiastical leaders convert to Catholicism simultaneously threatening to undermine the very existence of the church.
5. There is a world wide rekindling of socialist ideals and a major swing back towards communism in Russia.
6. There will be a major terrorist attack in Dubai
7. There will be a serious pollution problem in France – possibly in Paris with the contamination of the River Seine. Also a dam will burst in the Far East – maybe China.
8. Britain sees many of its top companies go bust and in particular holiday firms, aviation companies and the building companies.
9. Victoria Beckham will become pregnant with a long awaited daughter. And Jordan will announce she’s pregnant too.
10. There will be a knife attack on a top celebrity

I will be following those predictions through the year. I’d very much appreciate it if anyone who comes across any other predictions or is making some of their own could post a link in the comments. One link per comment to avoid the spam filter would be appreciated.

xD.

Posted on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Categories: Americana, Blogging, From the web, International Relations, London, Politics, Transport.
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