@ismu
The people on this thread who whine
"We will work till we're 80 and never buy a house"
if you don't like this, fight it, change it, improve it!!!
I've been fighting most of my adult life for this. I've sent a great many letters to MPs over the years (in fact I recently came across one I wrote in 2011 and another in 2012) and have had numerous meetings with them. On top of that I voted Remain. I voted Labour and watched the Tories get in again and again. What else can we do? I'm open to ideas if you actually have any.
@IntheoldendaysI have to agree on the way everyone under about 35 seems to think we are all absolutely loaded, whining brexiteers. Any other demographic of people sneered at like this would be up in arms, but apparently, we're all living in mortgage free houses muttering about young people and living the life of Riley.
The only ageism I've seen on this thread (granted, I can see a number of posts from one person have been deleted) have been from posts like yours, lumping a generation into one homogenous group, i.e. doing the very thing you accuse them of doing.
I'm under no illusion that all pensioners are mortgage free and loaded and would never claim anything of the kind. My mother's family were poor. My grandfather worked much of his life down the pit doing dreadful work and he came away with nothing much to show for it. There were many men like him in his mining village, some of whom were disabled from mining accidents and/or suffering from respiratory diseases, but still more fortunate than the many who lost their lives. Then the government pocketed nearly £5bn of surplus profits from the Miners Pension Scheme and it's taken until 2024 for any of this to be handed back to miners. Not all men (a phrase I never thought I'd use) were off advancing their careers at the expense of their wives. Neither my grandmother nor my mother (who is of WASPI age, never worked a day in her life) wanted to work and were more than happy to be dependent on their husbands, regardless of what toll it took on them.
Anyway, I digress. I vividly recall article after article in the 2010s bemoaning Millennials. We were the feckless generation, the 'avocado on toast' generation, the 'bank of mum and dad' generation. The entitled, lazy, financially irresponsible and tech-obsessed generation. And which generation was it that was doing the vast majority of this sneering?
I worked from the age of 16, university wasn't on the cards because there was no way I could have afforded it despite desperately wanting to go. I tried to get onto apprenticeships but by that point the numbers had already dwindled significantly and most were aimed at men. I struggled to advance my career because most jobs expected you to have a degree. And I was, in fact, asked if I was planning on becoming pregnant at more than one job interview. I had no bank of mum and dad because my dad died, and I was never given a penny by my mother. So in my late 20s I decided to do a part time degree in the hope of increasing my earning potential. As of last year I'm a graduate in her mid 30s with years of transferrable experience behind her, but have yet to acquire a graduate job because I'm up against thousands of applicants competing for the meagre number of graduate positions available, despite the supposed demand for people with skills and knowledge in the subject I studied.
So no, I don't feel that I'm being ageist, ignorant, intolerant or possessing a class bias for feeling this was the correct decision. As for the claims of misogyny, is it not misogynistic to suggest that women are incapable of understanding changes to their pension?