Britain in 50 years time

How do you view Britain in 50 years from now? Full of hope, optimism, progressive ideals?

Or will we perhaps continue to decline into a currently unfathomable circumstance, full of desperation and ill attitudes harboured towards eachother?

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Reply 1

Copperknickers

Well, Scotland will be an independent country and will have rebuilt Hadrians wall after we fail to get into the EU, meanwhile the Euro will have collapsed and London will be flooded with refugees from Europe, causing the by then mostly non-white London to be run by Italians, Spaniards and Greeks, and consequently Western civilisation as we know it will collapse.

Reply 2

Valyrian

I don't see the UK being any better, really. Technology will drive us further apart and then there will be no such thing as socialisation between each other. I'm not sure why but I do see our economy suffering from a double deficit

Reply 3

Stinkum

Very interesting question.

I think there will be a huge rise in unemployment.

There will be a huge increase in the population.

A new healthcare system will replace the NHS.

Other than that, I really can't imagine what this country will look like in the 2060s. It's quite a fascinating thought exercise. Obviously there will be huge technological advancements. The internet only came into heavy mainstream usage very recently, towards the end of the previous century, mostly during the 90s. And technology continues to evolve at such a rapid rate, I can't imagine what will happen in 50 years. It's very interesting...

Reply 4

Reece Sure

It almost appears to me, with regards to the advancement in technology, that he rate of growth is almost squaring with each generation.

Original post by Copperknickers

It'll basically be just like the film Doomsday, except England will be quarantined

On a political front I think it's difficult to look toward the future from a left perspective, due to surges in support for far right groups across europe, aswell as domestically have 2 parties vying for power, however they can be described both as the Tory party and Tory-lite. I think unfortunately, further dismantling of the NHS will be taking place, along with other deals undercutting the UK taxpayer further than it already has been,* will result in an unhealthy UK (Assuming that there still is a UK, and that David Cameron and his tory chums havent presided over the severing of a 308 year union) in years to come.

However, another factor to consider is that with technology progression comes green solutions to energy. We're so very reliant on gas, oil etc for production of energy. However by 2050, Denmark are expected to be 100 percent renewable energy. And in the first 2 weeks of June this year, Germany produced over 50 percent of its energy from the use of solar energy collecting technologies.

*One of the greatest undervaluations of the royal mail was a property portfolio of over 2000 locations across the UK, sold for £787 million. I t included sites such as the 8 Acre Mount Pleasant sorting office in Islington, which would be worth over a billion if sold for housing development.

Reply 5

+ polarity -

everyone will be homeless but we'll have marginally faster trains everywhere

Reply 6

GenialGermanGent

Given the current levels of alcoholism, obesity, divorce rates, teenage pregnancies, child poverty, private insolvencies, and general decline of morals and values due to a strongly secular and highly cynical society... the future is bleak for Britain. Can't wait for you lot to actually ask for money from the EU rather than pay into it.

Reply 7

Turquaz

Guys I wanted to come home soon but you're freaking me out with your comments. But they do sound kinda true you know!

Reply 8

LazyGinge

Original post by + polarity -

everyone will be homeless but we'll have marginally faster trains everywhere

The commute to work sucks, totally worth it

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Reply 9

uberteknik

Original post by Reece Sure

Who knows? Fifty years is a very long time and crystal balls that work have not been invented.

We may all be wiped out by the 2013 TV135 asteroid in 2032. A new as yet undiscovered super-virus mutation could cause a global epidemic wiping out billions.

But most likely we will be pretty much the same in fifty years as we are today with a slightly bigger population (around 70 million), a more cosmopolitan and mixed race population, a much larger older generation with more clout and power etc.

Reply 10

Soul Trance

The urban areas will be all asians.

Reply 11

Rakas21

I think it will be largely the same with better technology. Wages will only see slow growth, inequality will still be high but we will have nuclear fusion, electric cars and 3d printing.

The biggest things will be space mining, men on mars and we will have identified alien worlds with life.

Reply 12

skunkboy

It'd be full of 10-yr-old pregnant girls. And incest would be widely acceptable.

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Reply 13

EllieC130

Nothing we'll all be dead because of global warming. Or aliens. Or the zombie/computer apocalypse. Only I will live as the **** up behind it all mwahaha XD

Reply 14

themightysals

hard to say with the rate in technological change.

life spans will have increased greatly due to technological advancements though. Also a more definitive split between the upper and lower classes. not so much a middle left with the way that people tend to stick to their class in finding partners.

I would hope that the UK becomes a greater part of the world scientific and engineering knowledge. I also dont want the UK to be involved in skirmishes, becoming mostly passive.

I also think people wont retire till 70s/80s based on life expectancy again increasing, but i belive this will increase faster than ever over the next 50 years.

personally I expect my children to surpass 110 years with ease.

Reply 15

ManifoldManifest

Post-work, post-scarcity utopia, under the benevolent guidance of our Machine Leaders. The ground work will be being laid for a post-nation world, with borders becoming steadily less meaningful. No monarchy, no wage slavery, no morality laws.

Reply 16

A5ko

It'll be exactly the same as now, just with smarter technology and more moronic people.

Reply 17

pane123

It will be a Muslim hell-hole.

Reply 18

username1465903

The west wont be the major source of power and so Britain may not have the same 'perks' as it does now.
As far as religion goes I think it will decrease; every generation of muslims, christians etc has been less fundamentalist than the last.