On 1 January I made predictions for the coming year. Time to see how I got on.
1 – General Election in the second half of the year.
Well, no we didn’t and the government linger on. Not right
2 – “…and as the polls close, our exit poll predicts that the Conservative Party is unlikely to be able to form a new government…”
Well, the government did linger on of a fashion. N/A
3 – The next but one leader of the Conservative Party becomes Ruth Davidson MP.
Too soon to tell. Not right yet.
4 – The hipsters get bored of vinyl and discover cameras with actual, you know, film.
In September, I happened upon three or four hipster types from Denmark in the cathedral grounds taking photographs for a fashion shoot in Belgium. They had stopped shooting for a moment…. to reload film canasters. Right – but likely to become more common yet.
5 – No date for a new referendum on Scottish Independence.
No date for a new referendum and no great call for one either. Right.
6 – No progress for LGBT affirming Anglicans in England.
Sadly correct. Right
7 – Progress for LGBT affirming Anglicans elsewhere, particularly Brazil.
Stunning progress in Brazil – marriage agreed by huge majority on synod floor. (And who else saw that coming!) Right.
8 – Increasing realisation that sexual abuse is part of church culture. #churchtoo #metoo.
Yes – meetings happening all over the place trying to work out how to respond. Few coherent policies yet. Right.
9 – FTSE lower at the end of 2018 than it is at the beginning. (7687)
As I write this the FTSE is at 6728 – worst year in a decade. Right
10 – The end of the beard.
Those with style, manners and culture have seen the error of their ways and shaved. A few young and misguided types cling on. Completely and utterly right.
Not a bad year, I think.
The election was in 2017 unless I’m missing something
You’re right – I corrected it.
It seems so recent too…
Number 4 – Think I will have to dig out my 35mm film SLR.
That, I fear, will not make you a hipster.
Have I missed something? There wasn’t a general election in 2018, it was 2017.
Attitudes are changing above all in the highlands and islands to gay people give it time .there is a bigger danger in home grown terrorists.as seen in 2018 .brexit was full of holes and fibs and absurd people causing ructions ‘something based on fibs isnt good the scottish government should get on with everyday life i.e bad behaviour in schools ‘even jails better violence prevention