UK's Civil Service to reduce spending by 15%. The NHS to be dismantled and replaced with a more, ahem, efficient centralised entity. £5 billion to be saved by benefit cuts by 2030. Tens of thousands of potential job losses. Government will be just as efficient as before, says Starmer, because of AI and other technology. He's probably right. It couldn't be much less efficient, anyway. At least we'll have more money to spend on a massively increased defence budget.
We'll need it if the street prophets (we don't have any wilderness for prophets to cry in) are right.
Russia and Western Europe keep each other occupied while the USA annexes Canada and Greenland to PROTECT them. Then the USA keeps President Trump's promise of vengeance against China that he made during his previous term. The US has its work cut out, having lost the war in all of the previous scenarios.
China weaponises the Yellowstone supervolcano. That's OK because the survivors can now move to Canada. The USA's campaign is to make China unsurvivable, as so much of their defence capability is safely underground.
All very risky but it has to be done because Mr Musk MUST have sole control of the new quantum computing technology. It can be presumed that Chinese agents have already obtained the technology and China must be stopped from developing it.
My money's on China to win. To have the most influence, Mr Musk needed a thuggish administration to take his "advice". However, a lowbrow administration cannot have the necessary intelligence and finesse that will be needed.
Of course, street prophets can be wrong.
