The BBC has been seen to frequently encourage the ‘Young’ to get out on the streets and riot, sorry, protest, the BBC seems to want to incite inter-generational war setting the Young against the Old….the ‘Baby Boomers’ having had it so good but now the next generations will be worse off than their parents…and this is so so, so wrong. Not only that but the ‘Old’ have stolen the Young’s future having voted for Brexit…a narrative constantly championed by the BBC. The BBC encourages the rage, the greed, the sense of entitlement that says because someone else had something ‘we’ deserve it as well…’we’ must have it….perhaps they should have the wartime conscription or the post-war rationing or the 1970’s. The Baby Boomers may have had it good, or maybe not, but that period was a blip in history built on hype and hope and the labour of ‘Coolies’ as Orwell noted so long ago…the ‘normal’ is much more austere with the bulk of the population ‘just about managing’.
Dominic Lawson notes in the Mail that anguished cry that Corbyn heard and exploited by promising everything to everybody…but as Labour now admits,, they have no idea how to pay for it all….what do these needy-greedy youths think of Labour’s admission that the tuition fee refund wasn’t a manifesto pledge but mere pie-in-the-sky vote winning trickery?
Labour — ostensibly the workers’ party — polls significantly better among higher socio-economic groups than it does among those on lower incomes.
To put this at its clearest: Jeremy Corbyn is a magnet for the young — but most especially those from well-to-do backgrounds.
It’s not hard to see why Corbyn was able to win their hearts and their votes. It wasn’t because of his decades-long commitment to socialism.
No, it was his pledge to abolish student fees — and, in particular, his suggestion that Labour would also find a way of writing off the accumulated debts of all those who had gone through tertiary education since fees were introduced.
It will be the best-off among former students who will be the principal beneficiaries of Corbyn’s most successful vote-winning offer.‘People of my generation are tired of hearing that we cannot have the same benefits that baby boomers such as Bartholomew enjoyed.‘To name a few: an economy generating meaningful and secure work, the ability to purchase a house, the guarantee of a state pension, free university tuition, and so on. That’s the crux of why we voted for Corbyn: we want what you had.’
Far from the austere socialist that the young Corbyn had been, this is the anguished cry of the frustrated bourgeoisie.
As Lawson says these youthful Remain voters who despair at never being able to set foot in Europe again as the borders slam shut [©BBC] might also been surprised that their new found working class hero, who is of course actually a very middle class marxist terrorist sympathiser [as are so many in the BBC], to learn that he has never been a great fan of the EU as the video above shows.
You have to ask just what was Corbyn’s appeal to them once you start to seriously look at what he offers…nothing that would actually seem to be genuinely in what they think is their interests. Have they thought things through?
Does the BBC et al give the ‘young’ too high expectations of life? Are they led to believe everythng will be handed to them on a plate without working for it? Some may well have that attitude if a recent CBI survey is anything to go by…
Bosses say graduates can’t cope with office life: Third of companies are concerned about young people’s attitude to work
With many graduates and school leavers lacking the mindset and skills required to thrive in the workplace, the CBI said teachers needed to better reflect the importance of ‘attitude and aptitude for work’.
There are also worries about the literacy and numeracy skills of young employees, with firms admitting they have had to run classes for recruits.
‘Personal attitudes, aptitude, readiness to learn, effective communication skills and a sufficient capacity to cope with numerical data are the key enablers. It is critically important that all young people are helped to develop as fully as possible in these areas.’
Naturally the teachers blame ‘cuts’ [despite the education budget being protected] not themselves for low standards…
Dr Mary Bousted, head of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: ‘With savage cuts to further education funding since 2009… it is unsurprising that businesses are struggling to find enough skilled staff.’
The BBC would no doubt go along with that as they seem to be on a mission recently to blame ‘cuts’ for everything that goes wrong [naturally no context as to why ‘cuts’ may be necessary] as they blame the deaths at Grenfell on Tory cuts [echoing McDonnell] as well as for drugs and phones getting into prisons.
It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so nasty, and if the ‘generation divide’ wasn’t being milked so cynically by certain parties.
As a member of ‘Generation X’ (40s) I sit in the middle, with the ‘Baby Boomers’ before me, and the Millennial ‘Snowflakes’ after, the Snowflakes are, basically, the children of the Baby Boomers – my parents, the ‘War Babies’, were pre-Baby Boom, and my children (no title I know of yet – ‘Generation Z’?) are post Millennial and being brought up quite austerely, at least by those parents who care, their schools are stricter too (thanks to the much maligned Gove, I guess) – they will be very different to the Millennials.
We (Generation X) are numerically smaller than either the Baby Boomers, or the Millennials, and thus generally ignored. When we were at school they were tearing down the portacabins and the younger teachers (Baby Boomers), when they weren’t on strike over some trendy lefty non-issue, were campaigning for the changes which have led to the spoilt brats now coming in to their own – the Millennials – to be educated in a ‘new way’ (no corporal punishment, ‘call me Janet’ teachers, indoctrination with ‘Progressive Socialism’, no respect for ‘authority figures’, superiority of feminism etc…)- think we can all see how well that worked out. Luckily there were also older generations of teachers who weren’t having any of this – they’re all gone now, of course, most retired out early in the 90s, and a lot are passed on.
Outside of school we were largely brought up with the same rules as older generations (with two genetic parents, Dad working, Mum working part time, or housewife), playing outdoors, and accepted that, after a bit of teen rebellion maybe, you put your head down and worked to buy your own house (if you were lucky), start a family, forge a career, and so on. It hasn’t all been easy, house prices shot up out of many of our reaches, divorce is the norm, traditional work has largely vanished, we’ve had to compete with cheap(er) imported labour, etc… but most of us seem to have coped. The children of the Baby Boomers were largely brought up with a working mother, often divorced, being told they didn’t have to obey rules and a ‘could be anything they wanted to be’, they weren’t allowed to lose at sports, at exams, at anything, never had to sit still in class and listen to a teacher (or risk the cane), and not surprisingly they have a very strong sense of entitlement coupled with a distinct lack of work ethic, taught skills, practical skills, respect for others, etc… anyone who has employed them (as I have) will tell you how ‘unemployable’ they really are – which is why so many will now only employ those over 35. Unfair on those under 35 who do know how to work – they do exist, but in the end you just can’t take the risk of employing them.
Generations can’t be blamed for many of the events that happen during the course of their lives, they are beyond the control of most ordinary people, and I do feel sorry for the younger generation (younger than me, I mean), because they have been handed a raw deal in many ways (work, housing, cost of education), but most generations have tough spells – my parents born during the war had a tough start in life as a result (my mother claims she was born under a table during the blitz), and the key thing is how you cope (or don’t cope) with these problems. The Millennials aren’t coping very well at all, and they’re lashing out at others (mostly their parent’s generation), it’s the typical reaction of a spoilt brat, you can’t blame a spoilt brat for being a spoilt brat, they didn’t spoilt themselves, so it’s the parents (and teachers) who created them who really need to take a long hard look at what exactly they unleashed on the world – if this same generation of parents and teachers (Baby Boomers) are now coming in for abuse by their spoilt little darlings… well, maybe there is such a thing as karma after all.
“Have they thought things through?”
You know what, I believe they couldn’t care less about it!
Even though most of Corbyn’s groupies probably come from well to do families and have no need to earn their own living anyway – so why should we squatters and highly educated 18-25s give a toss about who gains and who loses?
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.”― Benjamin Franklin
It takes an educated person from the current debased university education to believe the garbage that Marxists have ladled out decades after decade.
It takes around a decade for people to forget the idiocy of Marxist economic principles, and then they fall for the same old lies once more.
I think it’s unfair of the snowflakes to want to lock future generations into the EU .
And saddle future generations with vast debt by opting for Corbynism, which from what I gather consists of, spending, selling off, then cutting, then leaving a note in the treasury.
I heard ex-Labour MP for Hull, Alan Johnson, say something like “Why should working class people who don’t go to University, pay taxes to fund Middle Class students who do?
So I wonder how he feels about Middle Class people who don’t go to University funding Working Class people who do? No doubt that’s different.
First of all, the hard facts:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/stop-whingeing-milennials-and-look-at-the-facts-youve-never-had/
Then let’s try an experiment and see how the post baby-boomer generations cope with:
– No central heating
– No telephone (of any description)
– No fridge (let alone freezer)
– No shower
– No computer
– 2 TV channels
– No streaming/dvd/video
– No takeaways, except fish and chips
– No foreign holidays
– No gap year
– Annual holiday a caravan in North Wales
– Strict discipline in school, including corporal punishment and any items not allowed in the classroom in danger of being permanently confiscated
– Not answering your parents back else you get a clout
– No supermarkets
– Fresh fruit and veg only when in season
– Basic choice of meals
– No coffee shops
– No bars/restaurants
– Pubs that were for drinking beer and not much else
– Make your own butties for lunch
– Mortgage payments taking half your net salary
– Making financial sacrifices to get a deposit together
– Making financial sacrifices to keep your home going
(Sacrifices include limited socialising, no holidays, no eating out etc etc)
– No credit cards
– Living within your means
– Power cuts
– Streets full of uncollected rubbish
– Inflation of 20%
– Basic rate of tax at 33%
The list is almost endless.
They would be gibbering wrecks after a week.
And for the BBC, the next time some divisive Corbynite mentions some 30 year-old graduate still being at home having been unable to save up a house deposit, ask the question ‘Wtf have they been doing with their money for the past ten years then?’
The deficit of responsibility and surfeit of entitlement really, really makes you despair. They and the country are heading for a massive fall and the BBC must take a big share of the blame.
johnny – What an excellent post! I feel quite nostalgic now, as I can identify with EVERYTHING on that list.
Me to Jonny & lobby.
13 brothers and sisters, last in line hand-me downs clothing, mum ”doesnt matter what clothes you wear son, as long as they are clean and your clean” now do one.
By aged 12 i could and was catching a dozen rabbits a week, still at times bathing in the kitchen Belfast sink, whilst the family ate, because the bath had 2/3 sea trout or salmon keeping fresh in it.
Frequently i went midnight spud picking with my older siblings, for a couple of sacks of spuds, our milk was collected straight from the farm in 2 huge jugs which stood in cold water all day,
If the midnight wakeup was not for spuds it would be for lamping, either fish or rabbits, we could get a 100 plus bunnies an evening, i would gut them before going to school in the morning so they could be delivered to the butcher at dinner time, i had my own bsa bolt action single shot .22 rifle by the time i was 15, at 17 it was a £6 rifle, with a £140 set of sights mounted on it, and i could knock drawing pins in a board clean through the board at 50 yards.
I used to shoot a sackful of wood pidgeons in afternoon, by simply sitting in the hedge and dropping them from 100yds from the tellegraph wires running across the field from my bedroom window, when my brother bought me enough ammo.
We were like locusts with mushroom fields, gooseberries plums apples blackberries, and strawberries, there were acres of strawberry fields just up the road, we still had 200k tourists visiting.
All my elders worked full time, i was spoilt rotten with 6 pence here and thruppence there.
I would give a slice of my ass to be able to go back and live for 24 hours as part of that unit again, alas half of them are dead now.
“Aye, and if y’e told t’ kids t’day, they’d never believe y’e.”
Dear Jezbolla
coming right at the end of the baby boomers i seem to have missed all these advantages we had .
Please send me a cheque to cover my lack of free education.
In addition could you send me a further cheque for my hurt feelings due to suffering as detailed by jonnythefish
if you could add some extra because we had a tin bath and outside toilet and i once stubbed my toe on my mothers mangle in the back yard on the way to the toilet in the dark that would be frankly no more than i deserve
yours Kaiser
Kaiser,
The idiot left will probably revere you as a victim of capitalist oppression and no doubt Corbyn will read out your story at PMQs. But he will leave the impression that your hardship is in the here and now not in the past.
And what about the mortgage rate which I think reached something like 12% compared to the 2 or 3 % today and if you d faulted no one came to the rescue and unless you got back on track pretty soon you lost your house.
“Wtf have they been doing with their money for the past ten years then?’”
Ever more powerful PC video cards, (unfortunately incompatible with the current operating system or BIOS necessitating new motherboard), games, games and more games. Fully qualified in virtual fantasy and one-sided carnage and able to operate in semi-darkness, (so unable to get out of bed before the sun starts going down). Awaiting the call to take over as ‘leader’ when the post-modernists have destroyed everything. (“Duh, duz that mean my PlayStation wont wurk innit?”)
Johnny,
I really loved the caravan in North Wales. Some of the best childhood memories for me were in Wales.
Ahh! The seemingly endless British summer days! Beautiful Cymru! The beaches, the mountains & waterfalls. I have travelled abroad a bit but I can be happy with holidays no more foreign than Wales, Scotland & Cornwall. We mustn’t undervalue these beautiful islands.
Sorry, Lucy, but I have never seen Wales in the sunshine !!!!.
I liked the narrow gauge railways.
Johnnythefish, your list is what some Remainers think Britain will look like post-Brexit!
Seriously, in the last week I have had people on Facebook sending me some Guardian twaddle about how the cost of a full English breakfast will go up post-Brexit (oh how IRONIC, darling!!) and someone even saying I should take a holiday now, because post Brexit we might not be able to go abroad so easily!
I’m surprised they are worried about the cost of a full English. I’d have thought that organic muesli and free-range yak’s milk would have been more to the Guardian’s taste.
Lobster, I don’t think they’re worried about it. Most of them probably do prefer a placenta omelette and decaffeinated latte with breast milk, but they’re enjoying the schadenfreude of thicko Brexiteers having to pay more for their horrible nasty plebian meals.
Excellent Johnny!
I was born in 1947, which makes me about 103, and I still want to get my old moped back for a spin…
My dad refused point blank to let me have a car for ages, even an ancient Minivan for £80, so I could add that to your list, all of which happened to me and also Mrs Scroblene, although she lived all over the place as her dad was in the forces…
Ehhhh, brings it all back. My dad wouldn’t allow me to get a scooter (hands up, I was a Mod) – even though he’d ridden one himself for years he considered them too dangerous (well he did end up under an artic after it pulled out from a layby but thankfully just ended up with a few broken ribs). So he told me to save up and get my own car, which I did by working weekends and school/college holidays. There was no such thing then as ‘here’s a car for your birthday, son….’
You missed out
-Most people living in small terraced houses with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs with no gardens
-No Mum or Dad’s Taxi service
-Teenagers wanting to get away from Mum & Dad to be with their friends during evenings and weekends having to get out of the house, winter and summer, rain, snow or sunshine and spending that time outside on the streets or in parks or other open areas.
-Ninety percent of youngsters leaving school and having to find work at fifteen or sixteen
-No minimum wage
-Apprenticeships lasting for several years with virtually no pay
-Only the top five percent or so with even a chance of going to university, never mind Oxford or Cambridge where a qualification in Latin was required before anybody was even considered, and not almost half of youngsters as now
-Constant strikes, called at the least excuse, for industrial disputes over things both real or invented but mainly the latter
-Definitely no Pop Music Radio Stations from the BBC and no Commercial Radio in Britain allowed until the mid 1960s and none on TV at all until the same dates.
And I’ve no doubt others with better memories will remember other things common now but none existent in the Good Old Days when past generations lived the Good Life and had everything handed to them on a plate, supposedly. Despite all that we didn’t think of moaning constantly that things weren’t fair or that somebody, somewhere should be responsible for giving us things or should be make to make things better for us, that was our own responsibility, not somebody else’s.
Great post, Johnny! Is the ‘spoilt boomer’ legend perhaps mainly a product of the US experience? While we were suffering post-war austerity, they were relatively affluent (and also influenced by the leftist American Doctor Benjamin Spock and his 1946 childcare manual that advocated more permissive parenting). The British in the fifties and sixties were of the ‘clip round the earhole’ school of child-rearing.
I suspect it has suited the liberal establishment and their supportive media to scapegoat British boomers for their own failed policies – and to sow divisions between the generations. The message behind the media boomer-bashing we’ve seen for a decade past is possibly:
‘Kids, we know you can’t afford to buy a home and you got into debt gaining a Mickey Mouse degree that didn’t get you a graduate-level job. But you mustn’t blame us and our misguided education and immigration beliefs. The problem is your greedy old parents who all spent the country’s resources getting a free uni education and smoking dope at Woodstock!’
Well, that’s my theory. I’ve been angry for years about the lies being spread – and about the fact that many younger people seem to believe them.
Agreed, Helena – more lies and re-writing of history to fit the Left’s agenda.
And division, whether it’s generational, racial, class or wealth, is what they cynically promote to justify their socialist policies.
These ‘youth’ know nothing, have read nothing, and the idea that they might have anything pertinent to say about British politics (or G20 discussions) is laughable.
It’s just a parade of vapid self-aggrandisement and virtue signalling, and perhaps a chance for some beta males to grab a rare opportunity to get laid.
They’d be better off at home cleaning their rooms, and then learning some things that might enable them to turn themselves into useful citizens, rather than being a noisy burden on everyone else.
i totally agree with comments. i was born in 1946 never went to university but worked very hard to get by with no inheritance we lived in a council house and when i left home struggled like mad to afford to buy a house (at a time when there was not equal pay for women but hey we just accepted that , it was just the way it was) the mortage rate was 14%, could you imagine that with the moaning lot today, after being brought up after the war made us strong to weather the situations this country found itself in. My two children have been brought up in the same mindset, to work hard and try to do well for themselves and not to rely on handouts.They are in their forties and both have bought thier homes but without moaning that the country owes them a living. i cannot believe this country has become a moaning , groaning society,. you only have to take a look at victoria derbyshire program, not a happy face amonst the the lot of them just a depressing me me me atitude. i cannot watch it. As far as corbyn and the labour party i do worry that they will get in to government, got help us,if they do we are sunk as a country. Everyone who has worked for their house with a garden will end up paying the dishonest garden tax. they even begrudge a innocent hobby like gardening. if they do get i will immediatly put my house on the market. A very sad situation and the bbbc are just whipping this up.
Well said Cromwell
If it wasn’t so serious it would be hilarious.The managers at the top of the BBC many of them baby boomers obviously don’t see irony as they rake in yet more tax payers money.
I am a baby boomer ,born into abject poverty with all of the above list as posted by Johnny including a tin bath brought in every Friday. Also mother died at age 3 so dad had to work very hard to make up for the loss.Passed from pillar to post when I was really young but did I not grow up wanting to create havoc or kill someone No …. I got the work ethic ,was lucky enough to go to grammar school though not academic .
Anything I currently have I worked blooming hard for and I might add when I had children during a major recession in the 80s there were no benefits or tax credits availableto me and husband .i had to get stuck in get a job and work 7 days a week. None of us were handed a house on a plate and had to live with relatives or rental flat
I help my children out financially so that they are not waiting for me to die to get their inheritance .They don’t expect to be given anything by the state. I am fed up with this constant abuse of baby boomers who just happened to grow up with a work ethic.
Its very easy for non tax payers such as students to moan about what they haven’t got and how entitled they are.
Dear Alan – I agree entirely with your line “The BBC has been seen to frequently encourage the ‘Young’ to get out on the streets and riot, sorry, protest”
I have noticed that the BBC often preface a news story with images of protestors saying things like “Trump is a Winker”, “Grenfell is a Crime Against Humanity”, “Islam for Gays”, “Free Borders”, “No Muslim Travel Ban”, “Theresa May is a Winker”, “Corbyn is a God”, “No Brexit”, “Islam for Transgenders”, “Catholic Priests are Paedos”, “Open Borders”, “Lily Alan for Prime Minister” …
Enjoy at 3:30 – where the MP is complaining about not being allowed to speak at the ‘fake debate’ – and the BBC ‘journalist’ immediately goes onto the attack “but you have been …. out of step with the Labour party?” Biased BBC – attacking anyone who did not support the EU since before most people knew what it was.
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Un-ashamedly stolen Al for a rare facebook post…..thanks.
ps i am adding Labour before MP.
Got me Manxman ! I agree, should be Labour MP.
Brilliant, but what acronym is SHIT?
(Special High Intensity Training)
Brilliantly funny
+1
O dear someone used the ‘N’ word in ‘the wood pile’ – the politically correct police and Al Beeb are highly ‘offended’. Highly, highly, offended ! 😀
Sick of hearing apologies from sports presenters when occasionally one of their microphones on the sportsfield picks up the ‘F’ word uttered by a frustrated player when in the next supposedly ‘comic’ program has their favored participants blatantly ‘F’ ing into camera when talking about (mostly) a Tory MP.
I received revealing information about Universities from someone who knows his statistics.
Apparently there has been more scientific papers on IQ and brain size, revealing that Males have larger brains and an average IQ four points higher than females.
Of course, the left-wing wishful thinking academics do not agree. However surprisingly they do seem to accept that Males have larger brains than Females, but despite the research showing that Females with larger brains also have higher IQ,s than Females with smaller brains, they do not accept the correlations, insisting on the common sense and evolution defying political correct ideology of “equality of IQ for unequal brain size“.
One academic presented with the evidence stated that “there is little if any evidence that men are more intelligent than women, and plenty of evidence to the contrary”. So according to this idiot, the evidence presented to him was little evidence. But then must be more likely to be “no evidence” because there is plenty of evidence that women are more intelligent than Men, which contradicts his “equality of IQ for unequal brain size“ ideology?.
This is were the statistics comes in. The evidence for intellectual superiority of Women over Men is selective cherry picking, as it can be for Men, it refers to things like language and multitasking, so the amount of brain mass used for these skills could be larger for Women than Men.
But were the statistics comes in is very revealing about why Women now outperform Men in the Universities.
The reason for this is that because Men have a flatter Bell Curve IQ, with a greater number of Men than Women at the extremes. The reason Women now outperform Men is a statistical anomaly caused by the fact that if you have an education system were over 90 percent of students cannot fail, then you would expect a greater number of Men than Women to fail, because of the greater diversity of IQ for males.
This seems to be the answer to why more Women receive firsts at University, as over 90 percent of students now receive firsts. But there are exceptions that can be explained by the statistics. As statistically, males would always dominate the lower or higher end of achievement, but not if one of the ends was statistically included with the average.
So that’s why Men still get more firsts in History. This is because only 30 percent of graduates obtain a first, which statistically excludes the average. Also its why Males still dominate University Challenge at the same ratio as before Blair. And an unchanging dominant male ratio in Mensa of two to one.
If 50% of the young now go to universities surely one would expect the proportion of ‘firsts’ to reduce compared to the days when only 10% went to universities?
My recollection was that the grading was determined after the exams had been taken, i.e. if most people got more than 60% the exam was too easy and if most people got less than 40% it was too hard. This system assumed that the ability of students year to year didn’t change much but that it was difficult to set exams of a given rigour.
As a result I don’t think any more than two ‘firsts’ were awarded per subject.
Having been young once I have mixed feelings about the state of the young now.
I suppose different times produce different types.
Today the is an abundance of choice and information. Kids are compelled by circumstances to grow up earlier, exposed to porn and drugs.
I feel lucky to have grown up in a simple happy childhood with a hard working mum and dad.
Now, because of liberals such al Beeb encouraging a variety of ‘families’ kids have a harder time.
So when someone like corbyn or al Beeb tells them they are hard done bye by the nasty tories who selfishly care about the economy the young – kidults into their 30s – some – say give me – and if you’re old go and die.
Politics – I suppose is all about self interest – for group and individuals – as well as which dodgy politician wants my money to spend how they wish .
You can say to me “why do you watch the ” Londonistan Programme Foscari, when you know that
every evening Riz Lateef or a Assad Ahmed present a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour
Party?” I watch it because I want to tell you about this absolute Trotskist load of garbage !!
Riz Lateef may not know , but I expect she does that when presenting a story about a West
London hospital ,that when her TROTSKIST, SOCIALIST WORKER, FIFTH COLUMNIST editors , sub editors
and researchers write for her derogatory comments about the BOSSES of the hospital,she says BOSSES
because BOSSES means to her and her editors TORY SCUM !! If she used the correct term of administrators,
which she should do ,it doesn’t have the same inference.
We then go to the hospital and the reporter refers to the BOSSES once again. And we see and hear the
views of the administrators, who some of them are indigenous Londoners. Double Whammy so far as the
BOSSES of the Londonistan programme are concerned!! By the way the story is about building a new £400 million
hospital.
In my particular area the building of the new Barnet General and modernizing the NHS services in Barnet has mostly
been a revelation. You wont see any of this on the Londonistan programme. In fact you wont see too much about
Barnet ever on the programme. There are still maybe 50% indigenous Londoners .And the programme is
not supposed to be about us folk.
Born in 1950, I didn’t miss what wasn’t there, but I did feel that we were fortunate – I read a lot of science fiction, and recognised that the world would become more crowded and there would be less opportunities. But owning your own home was not a given. It was only when I was about 30 that I thought it would be possible and there were times when it looked problematic with interest rates going through the roof. People handing in the keys and hoping to walk away clear of debt – not always granted. What about Sundays with everything closed. Try and find a shilling for the meter on a cold Sunday afternoon.
I do think Dominic Lawson is right that there’s a sense of entitlement amongst many (not all) young people.
We now have a generation that have no memory of Soviet Russia the misery and oppression that it created through Eastern Europe and beyond and they have certainly never been taught about it. Where as my generation can clearly remember things like the Berlin wall and people being killed trying to cross to the West. We older types also know Corbin is only offering the reheated gruel of last century’s Marxism. and we also remember the apologists like Corbyn trying to give succour to Marxist regimes. I despair when young people are sold and buy the Marxist lies.
Swelter,
It really is a matter that there is no memory now. The young depend on the immediacy of the internet responding with immediacy to current issues. Yesterday’s issues never happened ( with the exception of signpost events like terrorism sticking in the memory a bit longer).
Al beeb and labour depend on this . In schools history is so politically distorted and so much never happened that any UK kids may not learn how great the British they live in has been and how rubbished it is becoming .
No today watch from me today – no comment about a nice chat with the labour shadow jobs mouthpiece or a pro abortion chat with Melinda gates. Bias al beeb.