The future of Britain in 20 years?
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In 20 years, Britain will either be the Islamic Emirate of Londonistan or a local front in the Eurabian Civil War.\n\nIf you're an English patriot, a Christian believer, or a conscious child of Western Civilization, then three words:\n\nPray For War\n\nEither way however, Prince Charles is still going to convert to Islam....\n\nIt's not all bad tho; there will be one really good thing about this:  The looks on the faces of all those PC leftists and feministas as they find out what their islamo-fascist pets really intended for them all along.   You'll be able to see the looks on their faces because following standard jihadi practice the beheading videos will be broadcast live....\n\nNimadan
774601
Yes. It's the 21st century
1146922
It's not impossible. Britian does it NOW! What has to happen though is that the free healthcare will come directly from taxes, so our tax rate would jump to about 15-20%. England does that now and it's working fine. I think it definitely CAN be done.
10994
20 years is not a long period of time.  I think that the United States will still definitely "think" it is the center of the world, just like it does now.  But the oil will still belong to the arabs, the chinese will still make everything and  drugs will still make you more money than anything else (think tobacco).\n\nSo corporations who control drugs, food, alcohol, oil and information will rule the world (kinda like they do now)\n\nAs for being slaves to machines, take a look at us now.  We are volunteering hours of time answering questions for free while an unmanned machine watches over us! Talk about the "Matrix".\n\nThe real source of ultimate power for most of the world is water.  There can be no life with out it.  Look forward to tremendous suffering, starvation and brutality as America continues to have one fifth of the worlds population but uses FOUR fifths of the worlds resources.
551457
When spending 20 million dollars become commonplace in the future.
89288
In the next twenty years, the world Empire will rise to power and problems will be eliminated.
1044100
I Don't know but maybe next millennium
1041354
In the 1950's (in the UK) people were told work hard and save, come the 21st century you'll have better lifestyles. Work less hours, retire early and have loads of spare time to enjoy life and be living in a Sci-Fi type future. People had great expectations.\nWell all that seems have gone pear shaped, as people are working longer hours, expected to retire later and now have very little time to enjoy their lives. \n21st century? More like the 1940's. And I can't see the future getting any better.\nSorry to be a sourpuss.
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Considering the technology and legal changes in the last 20 years, off the top of my head, I'd say yes.\n\nIs this a specific question, or just general homework.
935507
You are 100% right. For too long now, successive UK governments have put too much emphasis on playing the global stage at the sake of their own people. I suspect it's a glamour thing and they want to make their mark in world history.
1055123
in 50 years \nthey are actually moving towards it.
697217
I agree with you. But polls show that 2 out of 3 English people want England and the UK in a politically united Europe a European Union. It may be worth your while to consider supporting a withdrawal from the worst aspects of the treaty of Rome and consider closer links with the English speaking world, a English Speaking Union
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Hello,\n\nThis is one of those questions were I believe the answers could be both Yes! and No!. \n\nOn the one hand Britain is an island nation that has seen successive invasions & Conquests from numerous different races & peoples (the romans, the saxons, the vikings,etc). Britain had a massive empire & much of our historic wealth has come from slavery, expliotation & trading. In the second world war many people escaped from the devastation that was going on in Europe and came into the UK. So you can see we've always had immagration and migration, you cannot say immagration is a new experience for us.\n\n**The problem I think is more about the fact that we ARE an island (all be it a reasonably sized one!) and being an island means we do have limits on space & resources.\n\n**The other paradoxic part to this issue, is do you see immagration as adding something to the whole, i.e. bringing benefit to our society or do you see immagration as mainly a draining of resources. In other words is the glass half empty or half full, that I believe is closer to the core of this question.\n\n**The UK involment with the EU has seen the problem become worse, the dilemma increase. why? as poorer states & countries jioned the EU club they wanted to gain the benefits of EU membership and improve their living standards. EU labour laws allow for workers to move from one EU country to another and thats yet another part of the concern about immagration. Our government wildly underestimated the number of workers who would come into the UK seeking work (I think the orginial estimate was about 10,000 in reality its been 245,000 or there abouts).\n\n**The polish workers coming into the UK are not entirely welcomed why? because they are very hard working and prepared to take lower wages than most UK workers, why? because even though badly paid by our standards by polish standards they're well paid. \n\nSo polish workers can fulfil jobs that UK workers dont want to do, but some people feel polish people are putting a strain on jobs & the jobs market. How true that is, is yet another question and hard to answer. Non of this has clear cut or black & white answers, the answer I suggest is always going to be relative or subjective.\n\nIR
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England is already half-way to throwing our people's laws in the toilet and pulling out the Quran as the new way to live. Thank you so much British Liberals. But they are still in a big minority. I read that by 2100 the Causcasian British will be a minority in their own country if the current tred keeps on.\n\nImmigration doesn't help either. If you let them all in, of course they're gonna take over. Already they are enforcing their customs on us, making us accept them over ours, when they are the "guests" in our countries. They should obey our rules!
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This is an interesting question. But the answer to it, if given seriously, is not quite an easy and straight-forward one.\n\nThere are only two real nations within the modern day UK, and they are England and Scotland. Wales, once an independent principality of Celtic origin, was taken over by England a long time ago and is politically integrated, even though in recent years the Whitehall government has made certain consessions with regards to devolution. Nevertheless, all law passed by the House of Commons is usually "for England and Wales". \nAnd Northern Ireland is not a separate nation either. It is a relict of long-gone times when Ireland was completely under British rule. But now there remain only six Irish counties in the UK, known collectively as Northern Ireland. They are not a nation, and not even a country. They are just six counties under colonial rule, with a population of Irishmen of various heritage and political allegiance.\nWhich leaves us with England and Scotland, which were separate independent states for most of their history. The Union of both exists only since 1707 and is, despite all efforts from the various governments over three centuries, still quite fragile. The fact that English people refer to Scotland still as being "north of the border" speaks volumes. And there is little love in Scotland for the English, who oppressed and exploited the Highlands for centuries (and still do it in certain ways).\n\nScotland has already her own parliament again, and it will be only a question of time (and political mistakes made in London) how long it will take for Scotland to elect a majority of nationalists to this parliament. A simple referendum could then decide on the question of Scotland's independence.\nShould this happen, England would want to hold on to Wales and Northern Ireland with even more zest than they show now. But it would not be easy. The six counties of Northern Ireland will sooner or later join the Republic of Ireland anyway, and if only on economical and cultural grounds. British presence in Northern Ireland costs the UK taxpayer at present more than £ 16 billion per year (and rising) with nothing but troubles to show for in exchange. Sooner or later a British Prime Minister will find better things to do with that money and let the booming economy of the Irish Republic pay for those six counties no one really likes.\n\nThe future of Wales is the least certain of all. In case of Scotland going it alone, there would be a certain momentum in Wales to follow suit. However, it is questionable if there would be a large enough majority for an independent Wales, especially since it could not survive economically on its own. Options for Wales could be a continued union with England, but with better terms, a Celtic Confedaration together with Scotland and Ireland, a much less attractive federation with Scotland, or a tax haven like the Isle of Man, completely dependend on the world's super-rich.
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Sometime in the 20th century
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I do believe that is correct.  I heard it will happen within 50 years.