I always maintain that I am an honorary Yorkshireman. I married a Yorkshire lass. My son was born in Yorkshire, and I really miss proper yorkshire pudding. Why do I mention this? Yorkshire is full of really good sayings, one of which is pertinent today. If in doubt, do nowt.
One thing the world is certainly not short of at the moment, and that is doubt. As they say down south: there’s a lot of it about.
The whole of Europe is bogged down with politicians that are hell bent on destroying everything in sight. The middle east, or what today is probably more accurately called West Asia, is in uproar. China seems to be imploding, and the USA is hell bent on self destruction.
On top of all that, last week I received an email suggesting I buy a house in Manchester as a good investment.
A friend of mine currently lives in what is called Greater Manchester. She has been asking me where to move to. Anywhere but Manchester.
Way back when I was at school there was a joke about the weather. “It’s alright, it wont rain today. They’re just empties on their way back to Manchester.”
I was once offered a whole street in Burnley for £250,000. Foolishly I thought the project a bit unwieldy for me to cope with. Instead I bought just three houses. They cost me £3,000 each. I later sold them for £25,000 each.
That’s when you buy, when prices are on the floor.
What have we got at the moment?
A government hell bent on destroying the rental market, industry, in fact the whole concept of Britishness. The economy in recession; debt levels firmly the wrong side of 90% of GDP so the country is teetering on the edge of being classed as in a debt trap. That means interest rates are likely to rise. And the whole country is not exactly basking in a feel-good factor.
The only thing the country lacks is blood in the streets, but things look close to that as well.
The one thing the place doesn’t lack is a whole lot of doubt.
So what do you do?
If you live in Yorkshire, you know. Nowt!
This is not the time to invest. The time to invest is when things hit bottom. At the moment, things are heading down. We probably still have some way to go.
The politicians in France, Germany and Britain are arguing for war with Russia. That’s where the UK’s food and energy used to come from. These idiots should be in a padded cell. None of these countries have a properly equipped army, or the energy to create armaments. And that would seriously upset the greens if any of those countries set up armament factories. And the generals claim it would take ten years to equip and train a proper army. After all, the UK military cant even repeal un-armed civilians in rowing boats.
What is a much worse problem is the situation in Israel.
Unfortunately Israel is controlled by a complete madman who is perfectly capable of destroying the world if he doesn’t get his own way.
The really bad news is that he is completely boxed in. That spells serious danger for the rest of us.
We hear a lot of rubbish about Iran’s supposed nuclear capability, when the weapons inspectors all agree that the country has no nuclear weapons. Sadly, no-one talks about Israel’s nuclear weapons which are outside the non-proliferation treaties.
When a wounded tiger is boxed in, what does it do? It goes berserk! In the case of Israel that means firing nuclear weapons at Iran.
That may well be the end of Israel, but more importantly, it could well cause a serious radioactive cloud to start circling the earth.
Sadly, I think we are waiting for a rather big bang. The nuclear arsenal that needs to be destroyed before that can happen is Israel’s, or we are all in trouble.
We may soon be watching which way the wind is blowing. In other words where is the fallout likely to fall?
Actually, Manchester may be relatively safe.
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