Playing the Blame Game.

 

What is it about the English? As a people they seem to be so divisive. They're always playing one off against the other. Young people against old people; unionised workers against non-unionised workers; the employed against the unemployed; blacks against whites; women against men; Muslims against Christians. This is why they never get anywhere because they're so easily side-tracked and duped. 

As a retired state pensioner, I don't deny that many young people find it hard going today, but that's not the fault of the elderly - it has more to do with successive government policy. Many of us received full education grants when we were younger, but we didn't introduce students' loans, raise tuition fees, or introduce the gig economy and zero-hour contracts. British governments facilitated all that. 

To hear some people talk, you would think that the so-called 'Baby Boomers' have taken it all and left generation Z, without a pot to piss in. The national economy is not a fixed pie or a zero-sum game where some people can only gain at the expense of others. Who gets what, when, and how, is more of a political decision than an economic decision. Britain is not a poor country by any means, but it's a very inegalitarian and unequal society. 

During the Victorian era, when Britain controlled two thirds of the world, and had immense wealth, some people called Britain, paradise for 30,000 and hell for thirty million. Both my parent's new what poverty was and slum housing because they lived through the depression of 1930s.