Unless I am looking in the wrong place I can’t see anything about this and I am quite surprised.
I listened to a fair few younger people on the radio and TV today and they were all complaining that times were going to be extremely hard for them.
I think most of us on here have had very hard times in our lifetimes so I didn’t actually have too much sympathy for them.
Young families now get far more Child Benefit than we did, their younger kids all get free school meals, free nursery places and school uniforms can be bought dirt cheap at all supermarkets now. They get tax credits and all sorts of things we didn’t get. I had to pay for playgroup, then nursery and then pay a childminder to look after the kids so I could go back to work. The only holidays we got were camping locally and we could never afford to go to big attractions like families do now - I took my niece’s kids a few years ago and these places are PACKED.
We had old bangers but the Mum’s cars at our local primary school are all driving really nice nee cars and 4 x 4s.
I was first in the queue on a Monday morning to get my Family allowance and my friend and I used to swap recipes for cheap meals like corned beef hash, jacket spuds with chopped up egg and baked beans etc. We never went out because we couldn’t afford a babysitter! Most of my kids clothes and toys came from jumble sales. I think the interest rate was something like 16% then!
We all have to cut our cloth accordingly but it seems to me that a lot of younger people don’t know how to do that or can’t be bothered.
What bloody good was it? nothing on there for us peasants except saving £3 on a tankful of petrol, I never fill my tank just in case some thieving toerag nicks my car.
Nothing on here about Frydenberg’s Federal budget either. It is due on the 29th March, bought forward because of the pending election. No doubt it will be shaped like a very large Pork Barrel.
It does, because the people on the news being interviewed were mainly young people complaining about how hard things were going to be for them and I was pointing out that my generation had it just as hard with no handouts, no freebies, you just had to get on with it.
And now the young have a right of passage to university, bypassing 6 or seven years of working, paying tax, and gaining proper hands on skills that unfortunately are lost these days. Never mind, because I don’t think they will ever need to produce anything, the Chinese will supply us with everything.
Flowerpower, I agree with you but I think that having to manage on what we had made us become independent & more capable of managing.!
Sadly we did it so well that we allowed the young to think that life was easy, and if you couldn’t manage the state would provide.
Personally I think it would be good if young people learned how to make nourishing food on a budget & learn that leisure time can be great if you learn how to do more for yourself.
Everything we buy costs more than making /or doing it yourself, It is time that young people learned that you can only buy if you have earned enough to pay for it. If you haven’t you need to learn how to make cheaper meals, use less hot water & wear layered clothes to keep you warm in the cold…just like previous generations have!
Well it’s time they came off their phones and social media and got a proper job. Although, in their favour, our respective governments since Margaret Thatcher, have given it all away to the EU and China, so there are precious few jobs available except in marketing and media studies.
What proper jobs? We’ve closed down mines, many factories, large industries etc and have automated a fair few other tasks. Sure, there are some left but not enough to go round.
Pretty much agree with most of what you said there @swimfeeders. But as you know, the idea was that by getting a degree back then, it would hopefully lead to a better paid job/career which would yield more income taxes as well as hopefully other revenue sources, which would more than cover the speculatory outlay by the gov/public purse.
The Labour policy in around the turn of the century to potentially flood the market with graduates as we moved away from manual labour was a risk and it’s not entirely clear whether that has actually paid dividends.
