The baby boomers will go down as the worst, most selfish generation in history.

By the way, my previous comment was written with a dollop of irony. I can well imagine what my dad would have said, had I tried the "poor me" act on him. It wouldn't have been repeatable!

Only around 5% of my age group had higher education, most of us left school at 15 or 16. With raging inflation and 11% or 12% mortgage interest rates, we struggled enormously to buy a home as well in the 1970s. We mostly stayed at home when our children were small and never got back on the career ladder so don't have big pensions. I never voted Brexit, nor did most of the over 60s I know. I am totally fed up of people bashing baby boomers. It's the middle aged who have had it easiest - dig at them not us.

Get up off your back side and help to make the country to your liking.
What a cop out to blame others!
All the things you own or wish you had, have been invented or produced by past generations.
There would not have been a free education system or NHS with out the fortitude and struggles of others.
You are not entitled to anything in this world.
So IMHO
GOYA
Be grateful that you live in country that provides opportunity to the likes of you.
You could be walking miles for clean water.
Working all hours for a pittance to feed your family including mother father and grandparents.

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Come back in a few years time and inform us of your achievements!

Not All Young People.

Most of the ones I know are very nice indeed; hardworking, sensible and happy that we are helping out with the DGC to enable them to add to their income.

In fact, my own Young People are always encouraging us to go ski-ing (spending the kids' inheritance) and not to leave our billions to them, they prefer to make their own way in life.

Byee, off on my private jet to my own tropical island.

Hear,hear jalima posted something similar on another thread. I don't condone inter generational war!

This OP is so silly, I think he/she is one of those obnoxious people who like posting things like this in GN pretending to be what he/she isn't because he/she thinks it is funny or amusing. Rather like the author of the anti-GN article in the DM last week.

You can always recognise them because they only post once in any thread because they are too frit to enter into a proper dialogue.

M0nica

Award the OP the Order of the Wooden Spoon

Most of you appear to be unable to look at facts as they are. We are the generation who benefited from the society our parents voted for after the war. A socialist society where utilities were publicly owned, where people were supported from the cradle to the grave, with free education, a completely free NHS, unionised work places, and equal opportunity. The society we have created has commercialized everything, it is a system based on greed. Utilities sold off, the NHS being steadily privatised, education for sale to the highest bidder, whilst the poor and underprivileged suffer. Personally you may be OK but that doesn't mean everything in the garden is rosy.

But trisher, some of us may well not be OK. Some of us may even be paid up members of the poor and underprivileged. Plenty of people of our age group are, contrary to what AllYoungPeople may think.

Why start 2 almost identical threads? I should go and get a life.

Leticia I think it was actually four virtually identical threads. They first appeared very late at night UK time, but as I live in a very different time zone, I noticed them almost immediately. I answered the first one, albeit in a fairly dismissive, but I hope not rude way, and reported the remainder to GNHQ, who, it appears, are not especially bothered by those who will stone in daylight.

Just a sad person really. Best to let them all disappear and ignore any future ones.
Don't feed the trolls.

Even if we are now poor (and this is relative) we did start in a society which cared for the poor and vulnerable. The question is how did we finish up with the lack of proper care and support that now exists? Young people can't be blamed for this only the people who voted for Thatcher and right wing policies and eroded the welfare state.

@Sunseeker
Thats what I like to see,a direct hit !!!

But for the disastrous events prior to 1979, i.e., a Labour government totally in the thrall of Millitant with no apparent way of controlling a country spiralling into bankruptcy, Mrs Thatcher would probably never have got to power. I think perhaps people on here have either forgotten or were simply not old enough to remember how awful it all was, and how thankful a lot of people were to sanity restored.

'see sanity'

Your posting is an insult to my own daughters,who like yourself,did not enjoy a free education.They got their places in life by sheer hard work,one via a degree the other by joining the workplace after school.Daughter 1 worked a part time job as well as studies,daughter 2 did a full time job plus additional ones.
They both have their own properties.
Stop whinging,develop a good work ethic,and you may do as well as they have.

error.....daughter 2 after college,not school.

The country was actually bankrupt when the NHS was founded at the end of the war. It is about the will to do things not about how much it will cost which is the excuse always used these days.

How disrespectful you are to this younger person. All this telling them to get out of bed, I have sat on a very early couch going up the M3 and seen the long queue of cars with young people going to work. I live near a busy road and the traffic starts getting busy at 6 am and I am sure it is not baby boomers as they are at home retired. Maybe people are working online with a 24 hour world so no point getting up early if you are up half the night working with another time zone.

What about all these athletes breaking records, they don't do that by lying I bed.

Babyboomers did not live through a war as they were born at the end of the war. It was our parents that lived through 2 world wars.

It was our parents who set up the NHS and free education. Yes we were the teachers and nurses but you only needed 5 "O" levels to get into a teachers training college. Now 5 GCSE's is the basic and young people, have to work for degrees and 4 A levels is a norm.

We didn't have to worry about jobs there was plenty for all and training in apprentiships which meant serving your 5 years and learning on the job.

How can young people, respect themselves when they have all these baby boomers critisms. It is these young people, who will be working to pay your pensions and look after you in your old age.

I live in a retirement area and it was the baby boomers who had UKIP signs in their gardens.

Shame on you!

anjanela I think the replies are addressed to the OP because of his/her rude and insulting comments. Of course, not all young people are lazy or stay in bed all day but it is my guess the OP is probably a teenager who has just started his/her school holiday and is attempting to wind up us oldies.

Trisher.....The NHS was 'free' at the point of use,but was funded from taxation.In the early 50,s more revenue was already required to support it,so charges were introduced,a shilling for prescriptions and £1 for basic dentistry.
That was not a small sum when the average weekly wage for a man was £9 , £5 for a woman and a state pension of £1.50.
Many people,as now,could not afford dentistry care.
I grew up on one of the new housing estates,where I can,t recall one family where the dad did not work and pay taxes.
When my dad came home after a long day in heavy engineering,my mum would work a twilight shift.

Ajanela.....We all know of young people who are hard workers.The responses made are to the tone of the poster,who does not speak for all.
Young people today will be working to pay pensions,as we have previously for those before us.Like myself,many of us work past retirement and continue to pay taxes.
There are also many "baby boomers" who have worked very hard throughout their entire lives without luxuries and now live on a very poor pension ,cutting down on heating.
We need to quosh the myth that the all 'baby boomers' had it good.

Respect goes two ways. The OP shows none, so receives none.

I will also add,that it was unusual for many of our own parents to own their homes.Inheritance trickles down to the generation below,so many young people today will benefit from monies accrued through their parents property ownership.

What does need to be done to help more now,is a cap on private rentals,and a curb on buy -to -let properties,which take many starter homes off the market.