“Mine are...
1. We'll still feel like we're in recession (although the experts will tell us we're out of it).
2. Man Utd and Man City will win the F.A. Cup, The League and pretty much everything else.
3. One Direction will have at least three number one singles.
4. More bloodshed in the Middle-East.
5. Severe weather and Brits everywhere will be mopping their houses up.
6. There'll be another big hurricane in the USA.
7. The X-Factor winner will be at number one at the end of the year.

I cheated! I used a crystal ball! Knew it would come in handy!”

“1.) The collapse of the US economy will reduce the importance of the international oil trade in propping up their financial system (since it is no longer there to prop up)
2.) Alternative fuelling of cars will lead to a further reduction in demand for oil
3.) We will stop caring about what goes on in the Middle East. Without oil funding they will collapse in on themselves as the ruling elite no longer have the resources to oppress the majority
4.) Richard Briers. Under a bus by 8am.
5.) House prices will remain flat across most of the country as inflation has not equalled the value needed to take households out of negative equity.
6.) Football will happen. They will then start again.
7.) Hull will expand it's borders, rebrand itsel******ston and get off the bottom of the league tables. East Riding people will whinge.
8.) Mismanagement of NHS reforms will bring down another minister. Nobody will really understand enough to bring down the Coalition.
9.) The Lib Dems will fail to take sufficient credit for the raise in tax allowance in April 2013. Probably Danny Alexander will go, to be raplaced by David Laws (think that was his name...)
10.) There will be an acceptance that we are no , and will just be embarrassing in 20 years time. People will be expected to hum quietly to themselves if they want to listen to anything new. Alone.”

“Hmm... line deleted by mistake!

10.) ... no longer creating music worth recording, and will....”

“8. Orchard Park Estate will be the des-res of Hull. Loads of new houses will be built and they'll be expensive.”

“David Cameron will be (rightly) hounded out of office for being a wishy washy appeaser of the EU.”

“1. Huge drought affects the South of England. Northerners die of thirst whilst our water is transported to the south due to the south winning an auction of the precious resource. After employing a consultancy firm to guide them through the auction process, the combined might of Parnaby and Brady misses out on the water but manages to acquire a 1992 Ford Focus and a fondue set.

2. Hull will become an International City of Culture. Residents will throng the streets in excitement, only to turn, dismayed,back to their houses when they learn that 'culture' refers to the unacceptably high level of Microbiological cultures of Chlamydia and Mange.

3. In a continuation of 'marrying a commoner', Prince Harry gets engaged to 23yr old Araminta Harkington-Danbryfeckle, 18th cousin thrice removed, of The Yorkshire Squire 'Horatio Danbryfeckle. Despite Ms Danbryfeckle never having set foot in Yorkshire, she once watched the last 5 minutes of Emmerdale' whilst waiting for her bath to be drawn by her maid. This 'amazing link' is discovered by the Yorkshire press, who spend the next 9 months tediously informing us of 'Our Araminta's' every move, until she is dumped by Harry for a duchess from a South African dynasty.

4. The Government will finally admit that Christmas is rubbish, (except for those with children) and will agree to building special 'Christmas areas' whereby those who are forced to 'enjoy' festivities can do so in seclusion, away from the sane and rational human beings who see Christmas for the consumer greediest it has become. These 'normal' people will carry on living their everyday lives and will not have to tolerate dead-eyed workmates wearing elf hats, proclaiming 'it's the most wonderful time of the year' and wishing that 'it could be Christmas every day'..

5. The Queen issues a proclamation, that capital punishment will be reintroduced to those who insist on using the word 'like' as a noun, adjective or verb, can deftly speak 'Essex' or use cultural vernacular from cultures other than their own (ie. "He is, like, so ream innit". Punishment will also be metered out to those who finish a sentence a semi-tone higher, thereby making statements sound like questions. Special allowance will be made for Australians.

I could go on and on but I fear being labeled a 'witch' if I reveal too much....

Happy New Year to you all! X”

“1. Miss Foodlove - I agree about the Duke ... I also think that by the end of the year the Queen will announce that she is winding down her duties and will skip Charles and make William King to offer the Royal Family longevity and stability ... especially now Kate is carrying another heir. They are already being groomed and are a Pr dream for the Royal family.

2. American economy will worsen and there will be wide scale riots.

3. A high profile asasination attempt on Obama from a US gun nut, who will be killed and a new consiparcy theory will be born

4. Trouble will flare up in Europe and Britain will re-negotiate its terms to leave the EU ... Britain will begin to rebuild its economy and the eU will wobble and they will all blame UK

5. Britain will discover a massive breakthrough in finding a cure for cancer

6. Hull city will get into the playoffs and loose in extra time at Wembley

7. The police commissioner and side kick will be exposed in some sort of expenses / fraud / or other scandal and the scrutiny panel will prove ineffective as the Tory boys will remain defiant in position with no-one to sack them.”

“Demonica

Glad that you have made an exception for Australians. Otherwise our visiting Australian tourist industry would grind to a halt - one way or another.”

“I won't for 2013 is to be happy,pain free spending. It with the one's I love and that love me and spend time with me”

“Demonica, if you get a few minutes I don't suppose you could make any additions to your list could you? I think you could write for a living.

Where did you dream a name like Araminta Harkington-Danbryfeckle up from? I am tempted to Google it to see if she exists!

PS, need a manager? ;))”

“And tickety-tock, it's bumkiss o'clock ;-)”

“jenoh, you have to admit, credit where it's due, very funny.”

“Oh yes, no argument there.”

“In no particular order:

1. Eric Pickles & Parnaby discover they are biological brothers.
2. East Riding schools are once again racked amongst the lowest in the country.
3. Parnaby blames the poor state of the regions roads on the recent bad weather (again).
4. The Country Life magazine puts the East Riding in the bottom tier of the table in the best county to live category.
5. House prices in the East Riding remain flat.
6. Democratic Republic of the Congo sends emergency food parcels to Withernsea.
7. Parnaby votes for an increase in salary and earlier retirement for himself and close cronies.”

“Democracy-now,
How silly! Where are the Congo going to get blue drinks and pot noodles?”

“Missfoodlove, your remarks are both hilarious and cutting, if that is at all possible.”

“Mmm the poor old duke is indeed no. 13 on 'The Death List' (his title on there is casual racist!) so it might be worth a pound at William Hills bless him.”

“An interesting site (particularly at this time of the year). Shame you can't have a few bets on some of the names. Morbid? Nah, it was a joke!

http://tinyurl.com/am973jt”

“Am I mystic meg or what? - Please refer to number 7.

'Deputy police commissioner caught using mobile while driving: Paul Robinson apologises after answering call while crossing Humber Bridge'

and so it begins .... bring it on.... like Donkey Kong”

“bt - you are not Mystic Meg. Your prediction came true.”

“bt,
Time was you would have been burnt at the stake for such predictions! Perhaps the person I thought was the forum witch isn't!((:
Lets have more predictions please, I will kick off with heavy snowfall in Hull between the 3rd and 9th of February.”

“Missfoodlove


Well we need some snow because a few weeks ago the Daily Express reported that this winter would be the coldest in 100 years. And to be colder than the one we had two years ago will take some beating.

http://tinyurl.com/brmde4z

Maybe they should have printed 'wettest' as re-reading it, they said the main snow would come in December. Though later in the article it's Jan/Feb.”

“Here's my prediction number 9. All the Kitchen Design ads will be zapped off the Forum by HDM.”

“1. Alongside appeals for cash for cancer research, there will be appeals for cash for research into viable alternatives to oil.
2. In a massive moment of introspection, the Catholic church will abandon its long history of institutional hypocrisy.
3. British broadcasters and journalists will see the error of their ways and ensure that the ever worsening standards of English they employ will be arrested. This will, hopefully, mean that we shall see the back of words and phrases such as: Snuck (sneaked); Tret (treated); Ten Year Anniversary (tenth annivesary); Where was (where were) etc.
4. All tolls will be abolished on the country's road network.
5. Opposition for opposition's sake will be put aside by our politicians in the interests of working together for the good of us all.
6. Led Zeppelin and Justin Bieber will collaborate on an album.
7. It is officially recognised that human beings are by their very nature fallible and unpredictable and that as long as they exist nothing will ever be perfect. This recognition does away with the need for official bodies to trot out the trite and meaningless phrase: "We will do everything we can to ensure that it never happens again".
8. Supermarkets will have their shelves fully stocked each day before they open for business.
9. The planning laws are not 'scrapped' and the chance for visual catastrophes to plague our lives is significantly reduced.
10. Knowing that I am supremely unqualified to save the world, I decline the United Nations plea for me to do so and wonder why they chose me to do it and not Robert Mugabe?”

“10. HMV will go bust. Alright i cheated but i was gonna put it down and forgot. I knew they were struggling though. Sorry. Don't doubt my integrity though. Ha.”

“Ha. A friend of mine works there. He has a wife, 18 month old daughter and a mortgage.

Still. Ha, eh?

What were you saying about integrity?

I know, I know. It was just a joke, hard times, lighten up etc. It's just that this is the first time any of the current economic cluster**** has affected anyone I know and its sad.”

“Don't think the government's ideas of cut backs is working. Keynes believed we should spend our way out of a recession.”

“Jenoh

I think HMV would have gone to the wall anyway. Their problem was Amazon, not the recession, though it obviously didn't help.”

“I think Asda has has a hand in the downfall of many record shops and will with book shops too.”

“Nothing to do with downloads then?”

“I have a gut feeling that Christmas Day will be on the 25th of December this year.”

“There's a chance it'll fall on a...... no, that would be just too freaky!!”

“I reckon Tesco will have a terrible year and be struggling. I'll make that my number 4. Because the number four has already come true.”

“Don't know if anyone heard BBC 10 O'Clock News but that Tesco Prediction of mine gets me a direct hit. Speaking of which, credit to Anon_Geoff too. Not a bus but hey, a result there I feel.”

“Can't even be bothered to scroll back up...”

“What you need is a big.....”

“...cuddle. Not off've me, off 13bt. Oops a rhyme.... no.”

“well obviously not off you.

crawl and skin being the operative words.”

“Sensational one week and Nostradamus the next you're ******* amazing.”

“Perhaps the Sensational one is psychic Missfl? The reality is he was just shopping in there on January the 18th and realised how expensive the place is compared to ASDA and thought "This place is going down!"”