Friday, Jun 27, 2008
Victor Meldrew's generation stole my future
BBC: Britons feel 'socially immobile'
Nearly three out of four Britons feel either worse or no better off than their parents, a survey suggests. Three quarters of the people asked said they believed that the gap between rich and poor was too big. and I bet the majority of those asked were under 60...
Posted by george monsoon @ 10:26 AM (687 views) Add Comment
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1. tyrellcorporation said...
They shouldn't just 'feel' socially immobile, under NL they ARE! Social mobility has declined at it's fastest rate for over a century under Labour. An absurd benefits culture has grown up under this Government and people are (quite rightly) choosing not to bother working. My wife is on the cusp of giving up her job to look after our two kids because childcare costs wipe out any money made through employment. This situation is ridiculous when you consider that if she lived on her own with no income the State would pay for everything, housing, child-care, bills, etc. The incentive for people (especially the low skilled) is to just kick back and be supported by the State.
2. cornishman said...
""We know that deprivation and poverty in the long term can only be tackled by changing the aspirations of young people and their parents. "
Brown has:
allowed house prices to get to over 10 times the wage someone starting work can expect to earn - so they are unable to buy a house
allowed a system whereby going to college to get a degree means that anyone starts work owing two times their annual income already
allowed many jobs to go overseas
allowed many immigrants into the country to do the menial jobs at or below minimum wage
allowed a system where both parents have to work flat out just to stasnd still - and have little time left to spend with their children
- just how does that change the aspirations of young people for the better?
3. george monsoon said...
Cornishman, - Well Said!
4. Rental John said...
Well said Mr C
My son has just come to the end of his masters degree in Physics.....but with a large student debt. He worked all last summer and will be working all this summer to help reduce his overdraft. He will enter his 'working life' already saddled with huge debts - this is before he even contemplates a mortgage {no chance}, car loan {for an old banger - if he can afford the petrol!}, etc.
Hopefully he will be one of the lucky ones with a good science degree he will get a good well paid job, but offset by the 'pay back time'.
5. Rental John said...
I don't belieeeeve it!
Sorry - yes I do...
6. Ccamper said...
Yes, we were screwed by that selfish and narcissistic generation.
Let's encourage them to use the services of Dignitas in Switzerland - the one selfless act they can do with their miserable lives.
7. mark said...
who stole my petrol?
8. tinker said...
Cornishman - I second that.
The people have not been served. They have been chipping away at society, community, dignity and self-reliance.
Isolate, divide and rule.
9. malct said...
cornishman agreed - but there's more
10. Neo-serf said...
Cornishman,
You are a good man.
Keep it there.
11. george monsoon said...
Malct - can you elaborate?
12. crash bandicoot said...
Cornishman, I don't normaly consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but I look at your post and ask "why did this happen?" the happy answer is ineptitude - I believe malct may be able to furnish you with a darker version of events.
13. paranoia blue said...
Re Ccamper @ 6
Many of us, actually, endured blood, sweat and tears, to develop the North Sea oil reserves in the 1960-80s, and beyond.
The wealth was there, but it was unfortunately squandered by various screwball glubberments. This wastage has accelerated, exponentially, over the last decade or so.
PS With all the P.C., health and safety, and European interference, which we have to endure nowadays, exploration would never have got off the ground, never mind actual production! Show your ingratitude, not towards the likes of us, but rather the higher echelons, who have treated us ALL, as mere pee-ons!
14. malct said...
pb spot on
will get back gm
15. malct said...
george m - if this is too late I'll get back on another thread
first, it's too easy (and dangerous) to over generalise
second, 'profits' from hp inflation are elusive, to benefit you have to sacrifice equity and get into more debt or downsize at the right time
but I very much agree with pb we're all being shafted one way or another.
although some sat these two texts are either fiction or a hoax, I think they are worth a look at because what they each claim has happened and is happening.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 1905
and Silent Weapons for a Quiet War
It's also worth think just how many people simply don't think for themselves, the woman I spoke of in the thread on thursday probably has no idea what is really going on around her. Not many people do. I wish more of your age group would make more noise and wake more people up - seriously.
there's loads more, but I've said enough for now, hope this reaches you I'll check back
btw this site has been very sluggish the last two days, I thought it was my kit but all else is OK