Thread by @K_Niemietz

The year is 2033.
94% of the British public are now members of Extinction Rebellion.
These edgy nonconformists have regular meetings up and down the country, where they talk about the need to Raise Awareness of climate change.

Britain is governed by a Tory/Brexit Party/UKIP/DUP coalition, in a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Lib Dems and 12 different centrist parties, including Change The Independent TIG Group for Change in an Independently Changing UK.

Corbo, now in his mid-80s, is still leader of the opposition.
There have been 14 General Elections since 2019. Corbo always comes within a few votes of winning, but never QUITE makes it over the line.

Have we Brexited?
Well, it's complicated. After 114 5-week extensions, the government finally decided to devolve the matter to the county level. This means that some parts of the country have Brexited, while others have not. There are now multiple customs borders within the UK.

Several parts of the UK are still in the Customs Union. Those parts are scattered across the country, but they are all connected via special transit routes, in the way West Berlin was connected to the Federal Republic pre-1990. No customs checks required if you use those.

The rest of Britain is outside of the Customs Union, however, some counties form smaller customs unions of their own. These are often non-contiguous, so they are, again, connected via transit routes.
There are a lot of transit routes in 2033.

A special case is London.
London remains a member of the EEA, except for Camden, Islington and Hackney, which have opted out, in order to pursue Lexit.
They have also left the Greater London Customs Territory (GLCT), and now have a trade deal with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

The rest of London has a trade deal with the US.
This has not led to any discernible changes to the way healthcare is organised, but in Camden, Islington & Hackney, it is a crime to mention that.
It is mandatory to insist that London's NHS has been sold to American corporations.

Eating in public has been banned, alongside all forms of food advertisement, and all public displays of food.
Restaurants still exist, but they must either be located underground, or they must have their windows painted black.
This is to combat the obesity epidemic.

Restaurant meals are subject to a mandatory cap of 200 calories.
Initially, people got around this by, for example, ordering 4 quarters of a pizza rather than simply "a pizza", as people used to say in the olden days.
This was banned under the 2027 One Customer One Meal Act.

This is why, in 2033, it is common to see people wearing what are quite obviously fake beards, fake moustaches and/or wigs in restaurants.
These are not meant to be convincing. They waiters know that you are the same person who had a meal 5 minutes ago. It's about compliance.

The average house price in Britain now exceeds the GDP of the Solomon Islands.
Between 2019 and 2033, a total of 114 houses have been built, 7 of them on the Green Belt.
A new CPRE report warns that "Britain is rapidly disappearing under a carpet of concrete".

43 different royal expert commissions have been tasked with identifying the causes of Britain's house price inflation. They all concluded that it is a supply side problem.
However, a blog post by Ian Mulheirn says otherwise.
So the jury is still out. It's Very Complex.

People no longer get no-platformed. This is because everybody is now no-platformed by default. If you want to speak in public, you have to get actively "platformed" by a Council of Moral Guardians. Otherwise, it will just be presumed that your views are Problematic and Hateful.