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So here we are, Barrack Obama and David Cameron attending at a London inventor's function when they come across a stand exhibiting a plastic box bristling with coloured lights, to which a microphone is attached along with a connection to a printer. When asked what the box was for, the inventor replied "it is a time machine, capable of predicting events twenty years into the future".

Intrigued and a little sceptical, Barrack Obama says "could I have a go at asking a question"? to which the inventor replies "yes of course - ask your question using the microphone and the answer will appear as a print out".

With this Barrack Obama asks "what will America be like twenty years from now?" The machine's lights flash frantically for a few seconds and then the print out appears. Barrack Obama then reads it's contents out loud for all to hear. "America will be a very successful nation - there will be no racial hatred - all citizens will be much better off, there will be a total end to conflict and the economy will be booming and buoyant".

David Cameron quickly replies "I'll have some of that - let me ask the same question" So he does "what will Britain be like twenty years from now? Again the machine's lights flash frantically for a few seconds and then the print out appears. David Cameron quietly reads the script but is rendered speechless - dumbfounded and staring at the paper printout.

Obama asks "well David - what does it say"? to which Cameron replies -

Haven't a clue - it's in Arabic!