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Britain could be a very different place this time next year. Or much the same as now.

It depends on whether we vote for Brexit big time on June 23rd.

Let’s say we do. David Cameron would quit on June 24th. And by May 2017 Michael Gove has been our PM for eight months.

He defeated Boris Johnson in a leadership contest the previous October after Tories came to realise Boris really is Britain’s Donald Chump.

That made Mike’s wife, the journalist Sarah Vine, Britain’s formidable First Lady, but on the plus side it meant she had to give up writing.

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Having achieved his life’s work, Nigel Farage retired as UKIP leader to spend more time in the pub. Just as he did after the 2015 General Election

After three pints he changed his mind and became UKIP leader again. Just as he did after the 2015 General Election.

But he changed UKIP’s name to USIP to better reflect his drinking habits. It now stands for the Unapologetic Stop Immigration Party.

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No one hears much about George Osborne anymore. He has faded into the Osborne & Little wallpaper.

But Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader by 100 per cent of Labour members - and 99 per cent of Labour MPs are looking for seats where they can stand as independents.

This referendum is doing the opposite of what David Cameron intended. It’s becoming a verdict on his premiership and who should replace him - a “Tory psychodrama” he calls it.

But then it was psychotic of Cameron to claim leaving the EU could lead to World War Three, or Johnson’s nonsense that staying in is what Adolf Hitler would have wanted.

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It’s making voters wonder whether Cameron deserves to be our present PM, or Boris our future one .

That’s why they are both losing public trust quicker than Nigel Farage can down a pint.

The decision we have make is so much greater than the ambitions of a couple of Eton playground rivals. But they seem too blind to see it.

That’s because Cameron and Johnson each have an ego so big it covers their eyes.

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John Whittingdale is spending £650,000 on promoting the Cornish language Well, amm dhe’m gwenn - as he might say in Cornwall.

CRACKING THE WHIP

The Queen announced plans for “autonomous and electric vehicles” in her speech to open Parliament on Wednesday.

That’s driverless cars to you and me.

And I can see their benefits - lower insurance premiums because most road accidents are down to human error.

But my enthusiasm was dampened by Enterprise minister Anna Soubry. She warned: “Connected technologies present cyber security challenges.”

Translated this means some spotty schoolboy on a laptop in his bedroom hacking into the controls as you head down the M5 for Exeter so you get taken to Ebbw Vale instead.

Or worse, a Syrian Islamist unscrewing your wheels in a car park using Twitter.

The Russians are coming and it's snow joke

Former Defence minister Sir Nicholas Soames is concerned by the scale of the Russian military build-up in the Arctic and wanted to know what the present Defence minister Penny Mordaunt is doing about it.

She told him not to worry, saying: “A new Arctic Command has been developed to oversee this increased footprint.” No, no, no Penny. You’re meant to be looking for Russians. Not evidence of the Abominable Snowman.

Cameron finds space for John Redwood

Former Tory Cabinet minister John Redwood has been known as “the Vulcan” ever since challenging John Major for the Tory leadership. It’s his pointy ears and uncanny resemblance to Star Trek’s Mr Spock.

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Lib Dem leader Tim Farron says David Cameron only included spaceports in the Queen’s Speech so the PM can beam the Brexit campaigner back to his home planet.

Oliver Letwin is a bit of an airhead

All Shadow Transport Secretary Lillian Greenwood wanted to know was if the Cabinet airports committee had met this year to discuss building a new runway.

Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin said to reveal a get-together “could harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion.”

How on earth could that barest of detail do that, Olly? You really are talking out of your tailplane.

Burnham off to a flyer in mayoral bid

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen was first to clock that Andy Burnham was going to stand for Manchester mayor. He spotted the shadow Home Secretary being photographed with some TV actresses and said to himself: “Ay, ay. That’s election leaflet material.”