To ask if you agree with this statement?

[AShadowLurkingInTheShadows]

I know, I know, I know... I'm just interested if you do and if so how old you are?

This is the last 'fuck you' from the baby boomers. They took the secure corporate and government jobs with the guaranteed pay rises and final salary pension schemes and benefitted from property they bought cheap and sold dear. They burnt the bridges behind them by colluding with the dismantling of the very things that had brought them prosperity. Their last act will be to burn the economy before they die"

I do and I'm in my early 20's

[Furiosa]

Salmotrutta

You could say you've got off Scot Free.

I'm here al night ladies and Gentlemen

[Furiosa]

ALL

[Salmotrutta]

[Allalonenow]

"I belive that is what tax credits are for"

No, tax credits are a bit of manipulative socio/economic stategy, to encourage the working population to vote/support a Labour administration.

[MrHannahSnell]

Total crap. Don't agree with a word of it but then I'm a boomer who voted to remain.

[Furiosa]

No, tax credits are a bit of manipulative socio/economic stategy, to encourage the working population to vote/support a Labour administration.



No they are there for families at the lower end of the economic spectrum make ends meet. it also incentivises working families.

I'm not sure if you're joking though...

[SoupDragon]

More ageist shit.

[TheNotoriousPMT]

Awesome username, Mr Snell.

I don't think it was malicious, but we are screwed. I voted remain, so did my parents. I'm 30s and they are 60s.

[Valentine2]

Yes I totally agree with You OP

[Bracknellshockatabag]

Agreed, although as said earlier not malicious but there was intent. I'm 27.

[Theydontknowweknowtheyknow]

Not intentionally but in effect yes. 40s

[BestIsWest]

I just scrape in as a Boomer being 53. Me, DH and my parents all voted Remain.

[BestIsWest]

Oh, and I am gutted for my children and all of their friends.

[alicescaterpillar]

No. I'm a baby boomer (56) and a Remain. I didn't vote to push up student fees, get rid of student grants, introduce loans etc. Have a final salary pension scheme from previous job but at the time who would have known these would disappear? Yes, house is worth more, but it is still the same house to live in and that 'extra value' is wiped out by the fact my two dc won't be able to buy as the gap between wages / prices is now ridiculous. I'd rather it was worth less and they could buy. Makes me very sad. Also makes me sad that generations are being pitched against each other like this.

[BestIsWest]

Alice, you could be me.

[BeyondTellingEveryoneRealFacts]

Agree, i'm 30. Parents called from holiday home abroad earlier to crow.

[iago]

I was born in 1950. Growing up, there was not a lot of money for 4 children even though my parents were an RAF officer and teacher (sahm for a lot of the time, not by choice but circumstance) My grandparents were, on the paternal side, working class, and middle class on the maternal side (bank clerk and boarding house landlady) When my grandparents died, my parents inherited nothing, however, when my mother died I inherited a sum of money which I have since been able to donate to my daughter for her wedding and for a deposit for her new house. Will do the same for my son. Baby boomers have a lot of money to pass on unlike previous generations.

[AuntJane]

I find it highly offensive. 35% of 50-64 year olds voted to remain; 24% of 18-24 year olds voted to leave.

Don't blame one group for the outcome; we were all part of it.

50s, Remain, British, with family connections to working, studying and living in Europe for more years than I've been alive.

[Out2pasture]

the hate for bb is ridiculous. people who didn't live through the 80's crash and economic migration that had many leave friends and family in search for work should quit whinning. interest rates were close to 18%. women in the workplace had to put up and shut up. our parents set us up with strong unions and pension plans funny how we listened to them and followed their lead and yes many did more than just okay. try blaming the Chinese for flooding the market with their cheap products which killed all our industries.

[Nanny0gg]

Well said Aunt Jane.

I voted remain. I'm in my late 60s. My DH is in his 70s. He voted remain too.

[MrHannahSnell]

Thank you PMT

[AuntJane]

Thank you NannyOgg - Perhaps I should say we ain't dead yet?

[IfOnlyIKnewThen]

I have to say I agree, but like most I think it's born out of ignorance not malice. My parents who are in their 70s and 80s voted remain though.

However, I have to agree with previous posters that they really don't get the hardships that young people are going through. A few years ago when I told my mum that my husband and I wanted to sell our flat, before I even managed to tell her our plans she said make sure that we buy a house because we would regret it if we didn't, and people who bought flats when they had children were being short sighted! It really pissed me off...as if affordability wasn't a factor. She just couldn't grasp that if you could afford to buy anything anywhere in London, you were amongst the privileged. They bought their house for for £3,000 in 1970 and it was probably about 2 times their joint salary. Said house now worth £1 m. We were lucky enough to buy a house in outer London...which my mum regularly refers to as the countryside (she's not even joking) whilst telling me she could never live in an area with no tube station.

I'm in my late 30s

[BestIsWest]

The majority of my friends are all Baby boomers and all of us voted Remain. The people I know who voted Leave are in their 30s and 40s.

It wasn't easy for us, Wales wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs in the 80s. DH was unemployed for four years from 1987 to 1991 (We got married in 1987), interest rates were sky high at the time. Everyone in my family was made redundant at one point.

But yes, I benefitted from free university education although my parents had to contribute to the maintenance grant. I was very lucky and bitterly resent the fact that my children don't have the same opportunity. I fought bloody hard against the introduction of student fees as did my parents.

Don't tar us all with the same brush.

[honkinghaddock]

The vast majority of people I know voted remain. All those who voted leave are 40- 70. The people I know that are older than this voted remain.