Now is the summer of their discontent

It's odd isn't it? These groups of extremely well paid people who declare that they earn and deserve their huge salaries, bonuses and all the perks of the job because of their superb performance - are the very ones now shaming Britain.

We have the Bankers - the poorest people in the country are being forced to pay back for their mismanagement, the rest of Britain having bailed them out already so that they could continue their telephone number payouts. You should not call it a salary when it's more like winning the lottery - every year, and equally undeserved.

We have the oil companies - knowing they had despoiled Nigerian landscape and economy and the lives of many Nigerians who dared protest, they nevertheless were permitted to move on to pollute another huge area of the globe, bringing Britain into further disrepute. I wonder how much they contribute to the British economy -and is it worth it?

We have the World Cup debacle, ludicrously overpaid footballers, who appear unbothered to make the effort required even to match other years' lacklustre showing, demoralised, soft and simply not hungry enough to perform.

- and we have the politicians, fiddling expenses, involving Britain in a war it never had a mandate to enter and now, a Government elected by mistake, busy slashing the lives of its citizens to ribbons in a desperate effort to cobble together the credit rating of the country so they can borrow more - to pay each other bigger salaries, maybe?

Performance related pay? Where did that idea go? If we stripped this lot of the salaries they did not earn or deserve - I don't think there would be too much of a budget deficit left. I can hardly wait for winter.

recovery

I have been granted my old blog back, so now I have to decide what to do about this one!

Locked out!

This is a temporary solution - -maybe? - to the problem of not being able to get into my old blog any more.
One day I tried to access it from my Bookmarks list and I was required to login in order to post. Well, it had been 2 years since I had needed to remember any of that information and I was completely unable to recall my user name, password or the primary email, let alone the secondary email, which I was asked to provide when I sought help from the Blogger Support Team.
We seem to have exhausted all possibilities now - well, I am exhausted, anyway, and all for naught. It sits, stranded and lonely, on its pinkness. Some of the last posts seem to have vanished, or maybe that is my imagination; posts I wrote in my head while I was under exam stress and could not get to post.
So now I appear to be a virgin blogger, while really I have been posting (on the quiet) since 2005.
A sneaking suspicion persists that is a stratagem of Google, to gain more information about users and access to spy on blog material. I find it disquieting that they are photographing everyone in entire cities in America, that you cannot comment without setting up a Google account and running the gauntlet of intrusive questions - and the passwords, Good God!
Is it just me? - I cannot remember the things, together with the usernames...