2020 is thankfully over, here comes 2021

 I have not posted for most of the year, life has been a bit too depressing for that! But I will mark my predictions and make a few more for what they are worth. If I'd mentioned in 2019 that there would a virus which would rule the world if think that would swept all other predictions away!

Anyway, let's mark last year's predictions.

1. Lewis Hamilton will win the World Championship for a seventh time.  1 point
2. Sebastien Vettel will be beaten again by Charles Leclerc. 1 point
3. Sebastien Vettel will announce his retirement at the end of the year. Close but not this time. 0 points
4. Max Verstappen will be 2nd in the World Championship. Close again, but 0 points.
5. The early trade talks with the EU will founder on fishing rights and there will be a walk out. It did and there was a pause, but it was later in the process. 1/2 point
6. There will however be a deal by the end of 2020. 1 point
7. Rebecca Long Bailey will become leader of the Labour Party. 0 points
8. Angela Rayner will become deputy. 1 point
9. There will be a bigger Labour split this year when centrists finally realise they have lost their party, 0 points
10. Layla Moran will become Lib Dem leader 0 points
11. The Brexit party will not morph into the reform party and will disappear entirely. Kind of, 1/2 points
12. The polls at the end of the year will be Tories 42%. Labour 21%. Lib Dems 10%, New Centrist Labour party 22%. 1/2 points (combining the two Labour parties)
13. Elizabeth Warren will win the democratic nomination. 0 points
14. Donald Trump will win a second term as US president. 0 points, thank God

That's 5.5 points out of 14 which is poor by my standards! 

So now let's enter the fool's game again of predictions for 2021.

1. Lewis Hamilton will win the World Championship for an eighth time

2. Max Verstappen will be 2nd in the World Championship

3. Seb Vettel will still disappoint at Aston Martin F1

4. McLaren will secure 3rd in the World Championship again

5. A basic FTA will be signed with the US

6. Growth will return to the UK economy and GDP will be 7% higher at the end of 2021.

7. The SNP will win the Scottish paliament elections with >50% of the vote. Labour will win the Welsh elections.

8. Labour will win the UK local elections. 

9. Sadiq Khan will win the London Mayoralty again with 60% of the vote.

10. The UK will be the quickest western democracy to have vaccinated all over 50s.

11. The entire UK will be at Tier 2 or below by the end of April.

12. President Trump will face FBI inquiries into his Presidency and corruption throughout 2021.

13. The UK will outgrow the EU in 2021.

Let's see how I do this time, must be better this time. Also 2021 must be better than 2020!

Happy New Year to all. I wish the best for you.

Squiffy.