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

Eeh Falconbird you had it good. We ad shoebox int middle of road.
No apologies for black sense of humour.

I voted for Remain and so did all my friends all 70ish years old.

I can remember Harold McMillan saying "you've never had it so good" back in the 50s.

I was about 10 at the time living on the top floor of a low rise block of council flats.

Dad couldn't work because of PTSD they called it Battle Fatique back then from WW2.

We were means tested by a nasty little bloke and we were not living a life of luxury by any means.

Mum did waitressing and charing but anything she earned was stopped out of dad's money.

I went to work at 16 to help out as many Boomers did and worked from 9.00 until 5.30 five days a week. Which meant I was out of the house from 8.00am until 6.30pm.

I could go on but there's not much point really Some of us Boomers were fortunate but many of us had a tough growing up.

Not everyone I grew up with 'had it so good'. I was fortunate in many ways and because of the way we were bought up, our son's have been fortunate too. Even though one of them now regards us as the parents from hell.

He is buying his own home because we and my brother funded the deposit and yet refuses to have anything to do with any of us.

"Now you Brexit us, stealing what we had left for the future" oh for goodness sake. You're young, you have a future so get out there and make the best of it, like we had too and many of us did.

Prescription charges were introduced by a conservative government in 1952 and abolished by the Labour admin in 1965. But it's quibbling over a minor issue.
Why can't people understand this post is not about the situation of individual baby boomers but a complaint about the situation we grew up in and the situation for young people today. Of course there are poor older people and they will receive less care, but they created this system.

You don't have it so bad AYP. Far more of you going to university with some doing degree courses that would never have been considered worthy of a degree at one time.

Several of your generation are on the housing ladder thanks to the 'bank of mum and dad' funding your deposit. I had my free education up the the age of 18 and several years later did my BSc. degree with the OU, so paid for that myself.

I take no personal responsibility for the increase in NHS spending. As for pensions, I'll get my state pension at the appropriate time which will be later than expected. I've worked since the age of 16 and paid my N. Ins. so feel entitled to it.

If you really do feel so badly done to with regard to BREXIT, well I suggest you remonstrate with the vast number of your generation who didn't bother to vote.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

'see sanity'

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

M0nica

Award the OP the Order of the Wooden Spoon

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

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.