The BBC has often helped to spread the belief that the next generation is going to be poverty stricken whilst the baby Boomer generation live the Dolce Vita.
BBC journalists have gone as far as to ask why the young aren’t out on the streets ‘protesting’…whatever that might mean.
In 2011 Alvin Hall reported in a similar vein:
Alvin Hall: The generation poorer than their parents
Many young people in Britain are set to be in a worse economic position than their parents, but is there any sympathy among older generations and is their cause gaining support from politicians?
“I’m 100% livid, I think that’s the best way of putting it. We’re going to get more angry than we are now.”
Twenty-five-year-old City worker George Lewkowicz is mad about the economy.
He is typical of many young Brits under the age of 30 who have come to realise that their financial prospects are substantially less bright than that of their parents’ generation.
Today, George predicts this disquiet is only set to escalate:
“There is this huge population of older people who have essentially had it all, and my generation are then paying for their retirement.”
When this dawns on people, George argues, “the riots will happen”.
Personally I have yet to see evidence of that ‘poverty’…when the ‘youth’ are carting around £500 phones it kind of makes a mockery of such claims.
The Sunday Times suggests Hall and his kind are blowing smoke up our backsides:
Relax, Boomers, the kids won’t be bust.
The children of today will be far better off than any previous generation, according to one of the country’s leading economists.
Sir Andrew Dilnot, chairman of the Statistics Authority, believes technological advances mean young people have never had it so good and life will continue to improve for several more generations.
What else is interesting is the claim that whilst we maybe materially better off ‘our moral lives have been damaged…….by divorce, separation and lack of responsibility for community’.
And who exactly brought that about? Those who set out to destroy the family, deny responsibility for our own actions and respect for authority…and the turning over of all responsibility for your own life to the government.
Amongst others it was all those Trotskyist and Marxist revolutionaries who worked for the BBC in the sixties…..trying to implement all those things that Ralph Miliband was so enamoured of…….as a Marxist. Even Joan Bakewell admitted she was so minded, suspected by the BBC hierarchy of wanting to overthrow the government.
Dilnot tell us that matters are not actually worse but that expectations have changed…we expect more and more…and who drives those expectations?…..the Media.
No one wants to work in a factory now…they have all seen that getting on the ‘Telly’ and becoming a celebrity is the easy way to fame and fortune without having to grind out a living.
The BBC and the Left continually demand an improvement in living standards as Miliband does now…..and yet where does the money come from for that? The jobs all go to cheap old China.
Day in day out the BBC gives enormous airtime to any charity that stakes a claim on government spending…always demanding more.
Listening to the BBC report these charities’ claims over the last two weeks and you would know that poverty is the cause of so much harm…..
Poverty means choosing heating over eating, and not eating causes obesity (no really), and obesity causes a housing shortage as fat people can’t fit into normal houses, and living on the streets causes cancer from the fumes of automobiles, and cancer patients can’t get into hospital as they’ve all been closed down because they can’t afford the energy price rises, so patients are left in the streets to die…their decaying and rotting bodies giving off gases that cause climate change and doom the planet.
And all because of poverty.
Oliver Twist had nothing on these Charity scroungers….and Dickens nothing on the BBC for spinning a good tale.
But this is undoubtedly true, the next generation of adults will be poorer than their parents, and the next poorer still.
What the BBC aren’t saying is the reasons why this is the case, and most of the reasons come down to left wing stupidity.
Post war we had massive debts which were left for this current generation were forced to pay. The post war adults had the luxury of almost complete employment which they squandered through immigration and interminable strikes. Bosses either failed to invest or were prevented by unions.
Inflation pushed the price of goods to uncompetitive levels and following the intervention of the IMF and the ‘pound in your pocket’ speech the standard of living fell.
The following generation were forced to pay for that too. They also had to pay the unrealistic and unfunded index linked pensions of their parents, but now when they come to claim they’re told there isn’t enough money ! Not only that but the greedy idiots who preceded them are warning them not to leave any debts for their grandchildren !
Anyone who has watched the ‘end of Britain’ video by money week can be left in no doubt of the seriousness of the situation the UK is in. Ok it might be a bit of scaremongering to flog subscriptions to a magazine, but we cannot go on borrowing at the rates we are, something has got to give. As Money week say, no country has ever recovered from such a high amount of borrowing, and it seems impossible for the UK to either.
So regardless of what newspapers or TV tells you we have a situation where a second rate education system, which produces lazy kids, and lax immigration which allows easy access to a jobs market, ever rising stealth taxes, and a minimum wage to cover it, imports at record levels month after month, it is an inevitable consequence that living standards will fall.
One day people will look back to a golden age and wonder how they let the left destroy it. Until then we just have to watch as it unravels around us.
Drivel as usual . Work hard you get on. It is as true now as it always was. Sometimes you fail and go bust but that is life.
My youngest ( own business endless hours) needed an alternator for his wife’s car. Saturday. Found a Polish mechanic who did the job with a will and my son had to force him to take an extra 20 quid for being so fair and competent.
needless to say we all have his telephone number now and the Polish lad is going to do well.
No big secret here just the usual. Attention to detail, the customer and a willing attitude.
Not that a beeboid/ academic can get this. Far too simple. But then I never met a middle class lefty pod who understands real life.
Perhaps ‘Twenty-five-year-old City worker George Lewkowicz ‘
Can find inspiration here
Strange there was no report of this speech on the BBC is the EU about to meet it’s Nemesis in France?
“We’re going to get more angry than we are now”
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Blimey, an actual economics/kicking off threat story.
Bet Newsnight’s ex-Anger & Protests Editor Mason, is really in a snit to miss this one now he’s joined the rest of the bailing staff in C4 oblivion.
Still, all doubtless set to be covered down the Ian Katz slipway, probably from a bouncy castle in Bali (those production budgets don’t squander themselves you know). In fact now Paxo’s joined a commune and Allegra’s off on maternity, it may just be him soon. And no guests, as he’s not exactly someone to trust on anything.
Well, maybe the missus, as the travails of the Mumsnet set always are good for an insight on the people for whom the BBC speak.
Young George-City worker with a Polish surname-probably needs to check up on the Jarulzeski/Popieluscko era in his homeland before talking such crap-even to BBC “pigpilers” like Mason, Shouty or Hari(anybody heard from old Johann recently?).
You and Yours is on as I write-not listening but just know it`ll be a series of partial paintball jobs on oil, pharma, fast food, banks, lenders, booze and gambling, Murdoch or banks/insurance/pensions/energy types.
But not a peep about the EU accountancy, the UN spreading typhoid/cholera in Haiti, green rip offs, BBC License scams, lightbulbs and digital rip offs across Europe or the likes of Savile and his kiddies on knee/Children in Need annual blowoffs(which now turn out to have been blowjobs way too frequently).
Give the BBC chicken lickers a Christmas cruise around the Somali shore..a Winterval Awayday or two!..if we tell Humphrys he can check in on his houseboys in the olive groves, it could work…as opposed to anybody at the f***in BBC.