Ihope I’m wrong, and this projection is an extremity, but the UK exiting the European Union is already an extreme action in itself, so all bets are off.
The far right have officially parked there bus in the British parliament.
They were aided by a decade of soft and lazy liberal political correctness, they whipped up enough fear within in the public sentiment against immigrants and Islam, and cleverly rode the EU referendum wave.
Their views are now officially legitimate, and they believe they have a manifesto for change.
A future Boris Johnson-led conservative government will most likely have to form a coalition with the right-wing UKIP and other emboldened far-right parties who will win seats in the next election.
Labour will also have to alter its manifesto and become much tougher on immigration and the benefits of an international and cosmopolitan community.
The political and cultural narrative of the next five years will be fuelled by a rendition of the “rule Britannia” ideology from Britain’s empire days, it will shun immigration and Islam and marginalise ethnic minorities.
This will inspire other right-wing movements across the world: Other European nations will demand referendums, and it will die.
The US will vote in Trump, France will engage with Le Pen, and right-wing ideology will thrive across mainland Europe, not seen since the days of Hitler and Mussolini.
India is already ruled by the right-wing nationalist Modi, and China will accelerate its own cultural reinvention. Liberal and cosmopolitan thinking space will shrink. Islam will come under further scrutiny and attack.
And so, whilst technology will continue to make the global population feel like there are no borders, major influential governments around the world will head in the opposite direction.
At some point, somebody will grievously upset somebody, and with weakened international coalitions no longer able to smooth over potentially violent disagreements (why the EU was set up in the first place), nationalist governments will consider war.
Whilst radical Islamic extremists will provide a constant backdrop, it will not be the trigger for all conflict: European countries will do that by themselves, as they have done twice before in the last 100 years -- except this time, we have nuclear weapons aided by sophisticated geo-tagging and drones to do damage.
Dear God, I hope I’m wrong.