And here is my set of prophecies. They may need annotation here and there for some of you foreign lot. But then few audiences are as well read as Sphereans. But I'll give you a start. UKIP is the United Kingdom Independence Party whose policy it is to leave the EU. As far as I know it has no other policies. Spud-U-like you will just have to google.
Forward Thinking
In January six-foot drifts of snow will block the Strand
And packs of wolves will howl in every corner of the land.
In February polar bears will stalk through Aberdeen
As Scottish Terror Squads invade Buck House and shoot the Queen.
In March Her Majesty, revived, a Second Good Queen Bess,
Will halt the English armies at the walls of Inverness.
In April, Bess on horseback celebrates, to rousing cheers,
A Kingdom of the English that will last a thousand years.
In May the Caledonian Brown Bear and all his crew
Of rogues and fools and nobodies will meet their Waterloo.
In June the UKIP Government will ban all minarets
And halve the hellish tax on petrol, booze and cigarettes.
In dank July the English clad in raincoats and galoshes
Renounce the Evil Empire of the Frenchies and the Boches.
In August an XI of old England’s stalwart sons
Will whack the Pakistani side by seven hundred runs.
September: now the English start to trade at special rates
With Australasia, Canada and the United States.
October: caped crusader Boris Johnson on his bike
Rescues four and twenty virgins from a London Spud-U-Like.
Come wild November, Boris, with his Midas touch of drama,
Flogs the Twenty-Twelve Olympics on to President Obama.
In drear December arctic ice will close the Channel ports
Leaving Santa Claus to perish under skidding juggernauts.
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