2008 Predictions

A bit late, but here's my predictions for the coming year.

1. Gordon Brown's government will continue to unravel slowly. By the end of the year, the polls will look like Labour 28%, Lib Dems 18%, Tories 45%.
2. The economy will slow, but avoid a recession. GDP for 2008 will be 1.5%.
3. Interest rates will end the year on 4.5%, CPI 1.9%, RPI 3.9 %.
4. Several ministers will resign, stating irreconcilable differences of opinion with the PM.
5. Charles Clarke, Alan Milburn and Stephen Byers will all pipe up asking for a real revolution in New Labour and stating that GB is not the change the country needs.
6. Nick Clegg will move the Lib Dems to the right whilst being put under pressure from his party for moving too far.
7. Funding scandals will claim a scalp on the Labour and Conservative front benches. Probably Peter Hain, but not George Osborne.
8. Barack Obama will face John McCain and beat him to become President-Elect by the end of the year.
9. Ken Livingstone narrowly beats Boris Johnson for Mayor of London.
10. Kimi Raikkonen wins the F1 championship by 10 points from Lewis Hamilton. Felipe Massa comes third, Fernando Alonso fourth, Heikki Kovalainen fifth and Nick Heidfeld sixth.

Let's see how these pan out. I'll be giving mysel marks out of ten at the end of the year.

Squiffy.