GOODBYE and good riddance 2020, but there’s no reason to believe 2021 won’t be even more of a shitstorm. Prepare for these events:
Dover lorry queues reach Newcastle
By February, lorries are parked nose-to-tail around the M25. By April it’s reached Peterborough and come September, the queue reaches all the way to Newcastle. Large communities set up alongside and drivers begin new families.
Food rationing
Those who look back fondly on the Second World War will discover their blitz spirit when they’re issued a pound of butter, half a bag of sugar, a lump of cheese and a sachet of Nando’s Peri-Peri salt to last a week.
Cod War Two
Finally the armed conflict with a European nation we’ve craved when a French fishing vessel strays into British waters and Cornish fishermen pull alongside and pelt them with rocks. The EU faces off against Britain and wins resoundingly.
Jacob Rees-Mogg becomes prime minister
It once seemed ridiculous that Boris could be PM. But in the wake of Britain’s thrashing, Boris is ousted in August by Jacob Rees-Mogg, who immediately brings back Victorian-style workhouses, caning in schools, the old money and a banging steampunk aesthetic.
Harry and Meghan enjoy blockbuster success
The creative output of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is the sensation of 2021, with movies, podcasts, novels, an acid-funk single that hits number one and their own version of Love Island. The world thanks them for believing in themselves.
Plague of locusts
Biblical in scale, expect locusts some time in early December, turning the skies dark for several days. Nigella Lawson’s new show, filmed under a blanket during the swarm, demonstrates how to make them into party canapes and a vital protein source.
