We’ve all been affected by the events of the past few weeks. Well, some people have been affected in big ways, like only affording two lots of ice cream a day instead of three. And of course don’t forget, we the taxpayers are entitled to go to the banks shareholders meetings and have votes.

You have no idea how tempting that is, seeing as I’m not too far from Canary Wharf, home of the major banks in the UK, and ask to see the chairman of that bank, and wonder what value we are getting for my tax money, and perhaps call a vote of confidence or seven to p**s them all off.

Given the state of the shares on the stock exchange, here is some sound financial advice for those still wanting spend their money on the lottery:

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95.

With HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50

£1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5

But what if you bought £1000 worth of Tennent’s Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant? You would get £214.

So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle. Sound words to live by, I’m going to start right now. 🙂