Still up to trade ? <| sep |> debate over gay marriage comes back as an issue . If you thought the just saying what we ' re all thinking crowd will stop at immigrants then there ' s lots of surprises in store . decriminalisation of cannabis starts to get talked about politically , more to throw younger smokers of it a bone and keep them talking about that . oh , A 50 gets triggered obviously , I ' d say probably midjanuary rather than the late March that ' s being thrown around . Nigel Farage will get some form of recognition , honour , lordship , IDK but he ' ll get something so he can live off the public dime a bit longer . Increase in new arrivals from the continent for people hoping to get in before the door shuts but also an increase in people originally from the continent leaving . Mid to late 2017 when the UK ' s brexit position starts to become clearer the Scottish Gov will announce a second independence referendum to take place at some point before 2019 . Russia with its new ally in Trump and wanting to find out how much they can let slide will push a little further into Ukraine a little more openly . refugee crisis ongoing negative growth announced in at least one quarter of 2017 .