Years and Years predictions for 2024 (they missed on Biden winning in 2020 but the Ukrainian refugees storyline was pretty prescient)
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2024
A large protest takes place in Dover over the mass entry of Ukrainian refugees (all of whom have been forced to flee their country due to it going all totalitarian and falling to a Russia-gone-The Empire), which are starting to reach record levels.
In London, prices of common consumer goods have gone extortionate - for example, £12 for one coffee. As well as that, some of its boroughs are starting to be fenced off, with Kensington for example only allowing entry for people who have been 'means tested'. Many people living in London have decided to move out for greener pastures as a result.
Because of all the Ukrainian refugees fleeing their country for places where they can be free and not viciously oppressed by an increasingly tyrannical and kleptocratic regime, a rapidly increasing number of refugee camps are starting to appear in many parts of the UK.
Vivienne Rook, true to her word from her previous election failure, forms a new political party called 'The Four Star Party' - supposedly in reference to her Question Time episode. Her eventual goal is to hijack the parliamentary system by fielding enough MPs at the next election for her to be the one holding the balance of power between government and opposition.
November 2: The Hong Sha Dao situation has erupted into a full blown crisis. International attempts at organising emergency discussions are in full swing, while China and North Korea are on the point of entering into a military alliance. Later that day, the crisis completely boils over, and, following an ultimatum, the United States launches a nuclear weapon from a Trident submarine at the island. This is the first time a nuclear weapon has been used in combat since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Though it wasn't the worst place to drop a nuke, when news breaks of the USA nuking the island, it still causes mass panic throughout Britain and most of the rest of the world. Despite this, Trump seems to earn massive approval ratings afterwards.
Likely due to the Trump administration's high approval ratings following the nuking of Hong Sha Dao, sitting Vice President Mike Pence is directly elected as Trump's successor in that year's presidential election, becoming the first sitting VP to be elected directly after their superior since George H. W. Bush in 1988. However, as Daniel would later point out, Trump effectively holds so much power over the rest of the administration by this point, that he's still really the one calling all the shots. In other words, Trump has effectively become dictator for life.
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