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

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

WE paid for our Children's university education, they are now in a position to pay for their childrens.
We did have it easy though:-
Didn't have to worry which mobile phone was in, just if the phone box had been vandalised.
Which car should we buy, oh yes, it was a bike.
I never had to worry about paying for my education -- I went to work at 15

Life was so easy then.

Not sure the OP is genuine! They're very quiet considering their rage?!!

We didn't 'steal' your free education OP . Whoever gave you the idea that you are owed a free anything?

I didn't get much of an education at all. My parents couldn't afford to let me stay in school , so I went back in my 30's and got my first degree. I paid my way with 5 part time jobs , with 2 small children and a house to look after. I wrote most of my essays at midnight. I lasted 3 years on no more than 4 hours sleep a night. So what makes you think you're owed a free ride?

We didn't stop house building. We slaved and saved and earn our way to where we are - you might consider trying it instead of whining 'poor me'.

Yes I voted to leave the EU . And furthermore I don't regret it for an instant. We all voted as our conscience dictated . Maybe if more of the young had bothered to vote it might have been a different outcome. I don't know and quite frankly neither do you.

We as a generation have raised in part a whole raft of young people who think they're entitled to have everything that they want with zero effort. Well welcome to the real world OP , you're only here because of the sacrifice that was made over two world wars and numerous conflicts. You only expect a house because your grandparents and parents scrimped and saved to offer you better options than living in 2 rooms with your 4 siblings , mum and dad and grandma.

You've touched a nerve with me - and it's my last one ......

Both of mine died that year before they could vote

I was thanking mine!

Was it our generation who voted in Thatcher? Shouldn't we be blaming our parents? Most of them were still alive and kicking 30 odd years ago.

The Thatcher government was born out of the complete incompetence of the then Labour government, leading to the winter of discontent when even the dead couldn't be buried owing to the iron gripe of the trade unions and the almost continuous strikes. A lot of companies went to the wall leading to redundancies and bankruptcies including our own business. Together with a mortgage, two young children and insurmountable debt, (no bank of mum and dad! no bank at all!) we, like many others in the country were crying out in desperation for someone to do something, and someone did!

MaizieD how can you possibly sympathise even sneakily with this whingeing entitled adolescent?

I have never voted Conservative but I remember Maggie Thatcher explaining how simple it would be to run the country to benefit everyone. She sounded very sensible.
Possibly many people who did vote Conservative were horrified by what happened next.

(Are you up yet, AYP? I've finished my shift at work of 4am-11am, btw.)

I have to say I have a very sneaking sympathy for the OP's feelings (which I have seen expressed many, many times over tha past few years). It was our generation that voted in the Thatcher government which broke the consensus that held that a State should serve its citizens.

I have never voted Conservative and I voted Remain so I'd like to be left out of this hatefest please.

It could be any of the media sources which are now populated by ill educated juvenile mentality columnists intent on sxxx stirring, whose spelling and grammar is no better than year 5 student and who could not research and evidence their own birth.

Sorry I have lost faith in all media to report truthfully, unbiased and with any integrity.

We will know if it is the DM because they will not be able to resist printing some of the replies.

AYP, what an ungrateful little s**t you are. I hope you fail all you exams and spend eternity mucking out pigstys. You are probably not worthy of the job but I will give you the benefit of the doubt

ps Gnetters, you are probably right about it being a DM reporter looking for material.

Good morning.

Perhaps more young people should have got their arses backsides out of bed to vote.

Wouldn't it have been nice to have had so much more to spend indulging ourselves when we were young on foreign holidays, football trips, gap years etc etc etc, instead of spending it on trying to keep a roof over the heads of our DC and DGC and feed and clothe them and see them through their education.

Gen Y and the ones that follow them - the most selfish, me, me, me generations of all.

nanasam it is far too early for this fellow to surface- 2pm would be closer to the mark.

I voted Remain, did you bother to vote? The polling stations I admit would be open too early for you but they were open until 10pm so you could have staggered out of the pub to vote- that is if you are even on the electoral roll system.

A very good job that I am not your mother!

Go back to bed, AYP!

How on earth can an individual group steal anything from a future generation?! I don't think we all sat around in groups plotting the financial downfall of our grandchildren with a wicked grin on our faces! Too busy making our way in a very uncertain world without the bank of mum and dad or anyone else come to that! None of us could possibly have foreseen house prices going the way they have, none of us stopped house building over the years, governments did that, Labour as well as Tory. Owing to the absence of a crystal ball none of us could possibly have foreseen anything that has occurred over the past 40 years. Most of us did however, work hard, often in jobs we hated, provided our children with a decent home, help where we could with education, outings, holidays where possible, and were responsible loving parents and grandparents, mindful of our own parents, not flipping criticising them and calling the names! So don't you dare say that we are the worse most selfish generation in history! for a start you need at least some knowledge of history, and for another it will be interesting to see what sort of parents and grandparents you turn out to be, always supposing you ever manage to grow up enough to take responsibility for such a task!

Perhaps it's the DM wanting another GNet story

Goodness, that is one very cross person who doesn't seem to want to take any responsibility for his/her own life.

A member of Generation Snowflake perhaps

Shouldn't this be reported as it is the second thread I have seen with the copied and pasted OP. The 'T' word comes to mind.