Why are old people so selfish?

School holidays - bless!!

Actually there are several of them..

Wonder if he'll come back and respond when he emerges from his bed about lunch time?

There's another thread where this young discontent is venting his spleen.

There is a song " me me me me me me " which I dedicate to allyoungpeople I need say no more

Ialso cannot recall blaming my parents or grandparents for the situation I was in.

Allyoungpeople - really? Sweeping generalisations or what? When we were younger less than 10% school leavers went to uni- so not that many of us benefitted from free higher education. Now it's more like 40% - and it wasn't me who made you pay for it thanks, it was a government I didn't vote for. I have children who are paying off student debt and I've hat to help them from my not huge salary as a teacher to get by. When I first had kids we lived above a shop in a grotty flat no fridge, washing machine or TV, it wasn't shangri la, so young people shouldn't imagine we have all lived in luxury throughout our lives. We had it hard when we were starting out just like you. We didn't expect it all at once. I now have a pension, it's ok but not a fortune and I'm still baling out my kids and looking after my grandchildren, so I'm not swanning around in a sports car or on a perpetual cruise or whatever media stereotype you care to believe. And I bothered to vote and voted remain, thanks a bunch.

I think you'll find it's middle aged people who have done that.
But never mind, to someone as young as you we're all the same.
We were young once. You will be old sooner than you think.
Who will you blame then?

It would take several pages to refute your absurd generalisations AllYoungPeople – such an arrogant name – and I haven't the time to write them. I rather doubt whether many Gransnetters would bother to read them. Nearly all, if not all, Gransnetters have one or more generations of young people in their lives, by no means all of them related, about whose futures and present well-being they care passionately.

I suggest you view the media with a pinch of salt in future and check both sources and facts, clearly something your costly tertiary education – an expense that most of my generation abhors – has failed to teach you.

Welcome, AllYoungPeople. It's an honour to have you all on here, in your millions.

Didn't some of you vote for Leave, at all? I voted for Remain.