If you read my posts you’ll see that actually my plan included support for the disabled, to address unemployment, was supportive of immigrants that benefit the UK and explained why we currently have to seek immigrants who are a net cost due to skills shortages and how to address this.
The old, I’m afraid, as a cohort, largely caused the current mess by complete mismanagement of the economy for decades and decades which they selfishly voted for because they ignored the entirely foreseen problems that these policies would cause, which we are now living through. They neglected our infrastructure, sold off assets to fund tax cuts for themselves, many didn’t make any provision for their own old age and just expected someone else to fund this, knowing they were a large cohort and there would be a shrinking proportion of working people to pay for retirees and that life expectancies and therefore healthcare costs were rising exponentially they made no provision in the social care of healthcare systems to address this and fund it and just pushed that cost onto subsequent generations, they ran up a huge national debt while voting for tax cuts for themselves (the higher rate tax threshold for example would start at around £120k not £50k now if it had been uprated with inflation), they now demand a personal allowance so high their entire state pension (which most of them paid nowhere near enough tax to fund) to be tax free, they sold off social housing and didn’t rebuild it, they didn’t implement planning policies to enable self-building to be common and perpetuated a planning regime meaning that few houses were built and those that have been are some of the smallest in any developed country and badly constructed, yet they think they young people apparently should be able to achieve the same standard of living if they “just worked harder”.
They sucked up the free university, freely available and cheap rental housing and the huge property price rises if they bought somewhere, MIRAS (imagine having your mortgage interest being tax deductible! They always forget to mention that when they go on about how mortgage rates were 19% for a few weeks, on a capital value of 1/8 of the amount in real terms; when they could deduct the mortgage interest from tax anyway!!), they have continuously lowered tax thresholds and uprated their own pensions, reduced benefits, consumed an ever-larger amount of public spending to everyone else’s detriment, and then moan about how lazy everyone else is while they live in a house worth 20 times what they paid for it, earning in real terms 3 times as much for the same level of career success.
I found the original documentation and deeds for my house the other day. It was first sold in 1953. Per the Bank of England calculator it cost me 8 times what the first family who lived here paid for it, in real terms.
The issue people have with that generation is the complete refusal to accept the enormous economic harm they have caused to the living standards of their children and grandchildren, the total lack of remorse and unwillingness to accept any responsibility, or indeed pay any money from their (as a cohort) piles of wealth to actually contribute to fixing the problems, or helping the others in their cohort who aren’t as well off and didn’t take advantage successfully of being born at the most beneficial possible point in human history to date.