They're now groomed to believe that immigration is the cause of all their woes and that the ECHR is to blame. All lessons forgotten.
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but the point made was that we (older ppl) don't have 'woes' because student grants, affordable housing, good pensions etc.
sep 1, 2025, 10:15 am • 1 0 • view
What affordable housing ? What good pensions?!?!
sep 1, 2025, 10:20 am • 1 0 • view
post-war generation benefited more from those opportunities than succeeding generations, I'm told
sep 1, 2025, 10:28 am • 0 0 • view
we've 'had it on a plate for 2 decades' apparently. But I have some sympathy for that view because young ppl now face job insecurity, ridiculous housing costs etc.
sep 1, 2025, 10:31 am • 0 0 • view
The student grants stuff is a bit of a red herring from younger people who aren’t aware that the trade off on that was far fewer people going into HE, which I suspect is a trade off they’d not be happy to make! The housing costs is a very real generational difference though
sep 1, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
it's not me who was labelling 'boomers'! @gsoh31.bsky.social was suggesting that generation had a different view of human rights than younger ppl and I was wondering why they would. I still don't quite see the connection
sep 1, 2025, 10:27 am • 0 0 • view
The affordability is with respect to modern costs of housing, it undoubtedly now costs people a greater percentage of their incomes to rent privately and house prices are obviously a much greater ratio of incomes than they used to be. It doesn’t mean housing cost nothing back then, just less
sep 1, 2025, 11:54 am • 2 0 • view
there was rent control for a while too
sep 1, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
True, housing cost less, if you had access to it. But if you were a single woman it was virtually impossible to take out a tenancy agreement or mortgage. And if you were a single women with a child, god help you!
sep 1, 2025, 8:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh I don’t doubt there were different difficulties! Also in general it’s understandable how people end up in a detached position of not realising how much it’s changed, classic example is holidays which have massively collapsed in price in your lifetime. Avoiding holidays could get you a deposit
sep 1, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel for you mate, having tried to explain this to boomers since, well, forever
sep 1, 2025, 11:55 am • 3 0 • view
80 years on from the war I believe those with genuine recollections are getting rare. So we are talking now about those who grew up on re-runs of all the propaganda films produced during the war, where we had to be constantly on guard against invaders from the continent.
sep 1, 2025, 10:02 am • 1 0 • view
but we have recollections from our parents' generation plus what we learned about Stalin
sep 1, 2025, 10:17 am • 1 0 • view
But a lot of people who lived through the war and fought didn't speak about it to their kids, trauma probably having something to do with that. (My partner's grandad was at Anzio - but never spoke of it). Their kids (our parents generation), learnt about it mostly from war films and Biggles.
sep 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view