Generation Right

Yes it is. My DC have just paid off theirs recently and are relieved about that, but of course it has been more in the last 6 years or so than it was when they attended Uni, a big debt to have hanging over you.

'Welsh universities and colleges can charge up to £9,000 a year in tuition fees for a full-time degree course. But the Welsh Assembly has pledged that wherever in the UK they choose to study, Welsh students won’t have to pay more than £3,685 a year.'

Not exactly free, but a lot better than in England of course.

I guess it would have to be a scientific survey though, to find the real truth of it. As simply an interesting discussion jane I would say that young people, especially teenagers do find things worrying for their future.For a good number of years now, there are tuition fees [but not in Wales or Scotland] when they go to Uni, to be paid back from their future salaries, and house prices have been rising in the same time scale.Fears of immigration come into play too, and lack of suitable jobs.How these teenagers will feel and vote in the future is hard to say.I'm sure some other G'netters will be along in a minute to say.

The programme didn't set out to be a scientific survey Roses.
It was a set of observations that provided a starting point for discussion.

I think you would need a whole nationwide poll to truly find out what views are.Just a variety of young people isn't enough.It's true though that when times are tough, people do look out for themselves more than they would in 'the good times'.Human nature.

The presenter was a Generation Y himself, Roses and he interviewed a variety of young people.
He seemed to be saying that their mindset was that they had to look out for themselves as no-one else would, that whether they succeeded or failed was entirely due to their own efforts or lack of them, so why should they care about anyone else.
But although they were more conservative in their views on immigration and the Welfare State, they were libertarian towards social issues like gay marriage.

Depends on who the younger people were, surveys are notoriously unreliable.None of my DC are , more in the middle I would say. This will be different for regions, types of job they do and so on.Worries about immigration may be having an effect on younger people though, and fears for their future?