Tory HATRED Of The Young EXPOSED
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- 'Millennials don't know how good they have it': that's the argument I went on to fight on Good Morning Britain today. And I mean: come on.
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You need to talk to Destiny! We need to form our own lefty version of the Daily Wire, you two could do it.
Oldest Millenial (42) here! Represent! :P
House prices is down to council planning policies and more recently construction costs. By targeting landlords (surprisingly by the Tories) , it kills buy to let, developers will build at slower pace resulting in less supply.
In the last year London rents has gone up significantly due to landlords no longer able to cover cost. Actually both ‘greedy landlords’ as you might want to call it and renters are both suffering.
Only way to solve this is to build more particularly social housing.
@@BH-2 We absolutely need to build social housing, and we never should have had a system that allowed social housing to be sold off without a 1:1 replacement strategy in place.
Where does Napoleon come into this?
The smile on her face when you were explaining how hard it is to buy a house shows her true contempt. Most people would at least pretend to show concern for that issue when on national TV
absolutely right, but I also loved the look on Susanna Reid's face totally agreeing with what Owen was saying
@@SuzanneO707 "Smarmy so and so. Self righteous, everyones two pay cheques from homelessness. Love his take on child care public transprt too. Un " ... wat? 🤔
I detest that woman
Yup. She doesn't care. 💯
Exactly this!
I'm a boomer and it shocks me that boomers have no self awareness how our generation screwed over millenials. Reduced investment in education, higher cost of housing, disparity in wealth accumulation, etc.... Too much of "I've got mine, so f*** you." The shocking lack of empathy among my peers apalls me.
Yeah. 😏
My parents and in laws are boomers and they are all full of intense hatred at the thought of anyone having anything at all. What I don’t understand is how my parents have changed from the socialist background I’m actually from!
Most of my peers 65+ have had everything, affordable council rent, welfare, free education, free student grants,cheap house prices, could go on the dole and not worry, proper redundancy packages, early retirement, PIP,bus passes, social mobility,the list goes on, and now they want to pull up the drawbridge
Don't play in the hands of divisive politics played by both sides. Both Labour and Conservative are both Globalist, allied to WEF, not citizens. Young people need to wake up. An extra 10 million people at least through immigration. Wars based on lies. Printing money and ludricrous unproven jabs & lockdowns are a globalist agenda destabilising the west. Get out and protest rather than commenting on social media.
Whoa let's's back that train up a little bit it's not all of us are responsible for that attitude the people that perpetrate that drama are not a majority
Love how the Tory felt no obligation to cite any studies or even statistics. Just sweeping generalizations.
It's what they do best? And they have the gaslighting audacity to lecture on "entitlement"..which is exactly what they are - "entitled"..
creatures!
It’s the right-wing way, angry ideology over logic and statistics.
Yeah, hollow delivery of buzzwords and that's it.
What? People having opinioins that have not been peer reviewed by accredited experts. Where will this madness end?
Well yeah, it's all about vibes, quite literally.
she's very arrogant I'm sorry you had to endure her
She a narc interviewer ,getting more common.
@@susanbrown2909 She is paying her mortgage, laughing all the way.
@@SuzanneO707she's probably got tenants to pay the mortgage.
I am 70 years old and always been an socialist. And had a hard times. Young people should expect more, there are having a very hard time, hopefully they start voting in large numbers, they are the only hope for our country.
I actually wonder whether people are really socialists, or centrists. I'm centrist, believe in government owed basic human needs, with the option to build your own life(own a home). Because the most alarming thing is when you are not able to afford basic human needs. Yes, there are factors when people should try harder, but slogans of 'entitled youths' is simply just naïve and inaccurate.
I always vote (I'm 29) been voting since I was 18.
@@nothereandthereanywherewhy would you doubt a lifelong socialist beliefs? Are you mental? A "centrist"? 😂😂
Wtf does that even mean?
@@manoutoftime9057 "Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to the left or the right."
It basically means that I'm strongly aware of the need for some social and market policies, but not as the right wing views it. Yet, my policies wouldn't be socialist.
Voting when you have no real choice is a hard sell to a disenfranchised generation. Certainly there is no faith that labour want to or can change anything at all. It’s rotten from top to bottom
That smirk on her faces says it all.
she’s vile
Don't often get annoyed at these clips (we live in hell my expectations are in the toilet) but the sickening disdain and arrogance that drips from that woman is too much for me
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too much for anyone with compassion
The worst thing is that our media both courts and nurtures this delight of dismissiveness and cruelty with its pundits, as if this were "stimulating discussion" and merely "controversial", but it is all just training the public to punch down on themselves. To divide and paralyse the lower wage earning classes.
the basic conservative logic is as follows.
don't complain about being mugged once a month because years ago we were mugged once a week !
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If Dawn was any more smug as Owen spoke, her face would fold in on itself!
You mean it hadn't?!
It was merely reflecting the contortionist feats her brain was performing in the attempt to avoid facing reality.
And then the sawdust would pour out on the floor.
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Even us younger GenXers, if we were born into poverty, we didn't have a leg up either via education, work or family/parents helping, have not ended up as home owners. I personally was widowed in my late 20s and through one thing and another (including health & mental health problems) lost everything and didn't even get a glance at home ownership. Now I'm nearly 50 and know I will never own a home - can't get a mortgage now. Lots of us got left behind before the millennial generation with whom I sympathise immensely. For the even younger, like my kids, it's looking even worse.
I'm a boomer, my husband is Gen X, he had a tough childhood and was broken both by his father and Maggie Thatcher.
@@susangarvey9415 Get that, its not all about ages, so many varying circumstances. People across the board have to see beyond labels.
@@SuzanneO707 I think I very much do get that!
Here here.
yeah Gen Xers also have suffered because of the Boomer mentalities...The great depression and the 2 great wars, seems to have really broken Boomers thought processes and ability to share or care.
I have lived in a council house for 20 years, my neighbours privately rent a former council house. The pay four times as much as I do!!!!! How can that be right on any level?! The council are constantly upgrading things in my home. Goodness knows how old the essentials are in their home, but they’re constantly spending their own money and doing work on it. Their Landlord is a big property magnate! I have the security of a home for life, they never know if or when they may have to move. Just about sums up the national disaster of right to buy without reinvestment in new social housing. Especially as party’s of all shades like to say that there will always be poor people. Well if that’s the case, and there’s no will to change that, then at least make the essentials affordable for all, not just the more fortunate!
It was a con job for those magnates.
Spot on , con of the century. I'm not ashamed or feel inferior having lived on a council estate for most of my childhood and early adulthood,
This is the housing issue in a nutshell. Gone are the days when you could go to the council office, fill in a form and be given the keys there and then. This was always a war on the poor and keeping rather on the brink of starvation and destitution
@@Mcfreddo Exactly.
Well said Owen why shouldn’t we demand economic rights , this government as taken us back to Victorian times utterly disgusting
Yes: social Darwinism raises its ugly head again.
Agreed
Rees mogg would happily see us back in the work houses
we never left that era.. take your blinders off
@@Gringos007 so mortgage rates food prices House prices Energy prices NHS social care education none of this is happening, people working having to use food banks , what are we supposed to do just except it , mortgage rates going up and rent , just sit back and do nothing
I’m a 33 yo accountant; director of an art gallery and a working artist. A year ago I bought my first home- a miners two up two down in south wales, just down the road from where my grandpa bought his first home on a miners apprentice salary when he was in his early 20s. I’ve got three bloody jobs, degrees coming out of my ears and I’m in the top 20% of earners and STILL I’m living in a mining village in a little house. How the hell is anyone on an average income is supposed to eek out an existence is beyond me.
This is so accurate! Im mid twenties and in Australia. Despite a house deposit over $100k and median income I can’t afford a townhouse. You basically needed generational wealth
To be fair your work in art, not exactly known for its affluence lol
@@joshb7415 I make £25.00 per hour painting, which is around the same I get for being a chartered accountant.
@@zarathustracave5732 25 quid an hour for being an accountant is quite poor for an accountant but you're on 50 grand a year and tell me you struggle to afford a two up two down in south wales? how much was the house?
@@leeg131313 it was raising the deposit while renting that was the issue lee. And if you Google accountancy jobs, you’ll see that’s the going rate. Most are £35k-£45k in fact. It took me three years to raise the deposit, legal fees and money to furnish the place after qualifying (before that I had no disposable income). If you think £50k is low for an accountant, then you don’t know any accountants.
Wow, that is totally ridiculous. She has not got a clue. They are the had it all spent it all generation. With final salary pensions the like that will be seldom seen again.
I’m hoping the Tories won’t even be an option in 15 years time as they would all lose their deposits.
What I find sad is that I was 2 when Thatcher was booted out and reversing the damage and burying free market capitalism is still years away.
tories will exist as long as people are greedy
@imovertheocean Unfortunately true. That is one human nature we can't erase.
I hated Thatcher with a vengence, just wish I'd had the courage to eliminate her
We don’t have free market capitalism, corporations are running everything
Absolutely hammered her with facts , great stuff Owen
Shocking how baby boomers were able to live under a more progressive system but when younger people want the same thing then they are entitled. Mind you everyone wants to be treated fairly and have access to basic human things.
Please don't generalize about people my age. I feel dreadful for the way the young are being shafted. I also don't recall a progressive golden age either. It should be what we are all working on though!
@@tomtheeagle1 You got it. Well done. Sick of these shallow labels. Feels like smack un the face, when you saw this coming and wanted better.
Yep. Young and oldies. Divide and rule.
@@tomtheeagle1we have to generalise because whether you like it or not the elderly population vote Tory in their droves (and gen X though it’s declining)
@@tomtheeagle1 nah, sorry mate. the stats show most of your generation benefited greatly but are voting in huge numbers to make life worse for younger generations. you don’t like hearing that, don’t like that being your generations legacy? then start convincing fellow peers in your age group to embrace the reality of what’s been done. your feelings being hurt by hearing stats about your generation doesn’t undo increasing poverty and less opportunities for the young
Pitting the young against the old. Don't fall for it. This is a wealth distribution issue. I'm renting at 65, no pension till 66. Everyone has a story. Class issue, don't let's fight each other. Fight the elites and corporations
Thanks to the gory party raising age .
Yes and yes. Well said.
I totally agree with you. We need to unite against billionaires not fight one another. I’m a RN renting a static caravan at 42. We are in this together.
Yes. Not Tory v Labour, it is people v elites. Globally the same, Guillotines are being prepared.
Yes, this is what I keep saying. It's not a young vs old issue. It's a ultra rich vs poor and middle income issue in disguise. Its all about dividing us so corporate brats can run amock.
I'm a baby boomer and I totally agree with you. Your GMB counterpart was distorting history and exploiting false comparisons. The housing system in this country and culture is negligent to the true and rightful needs of those now starting out.
Thatcher destroyed it for future generations. Can't expect the Tories to cap rents, it's just bleed the Millineals dry. And cut mental health services so they can just do drugs or kill themselves.
Your basic human right to SHELTER, is their "investment" "asset"
That's what Thatcher started " right to buy" was selling off, PRIVATISATION...the council housing stock which had been for the very poor paid who could not afford to buy or repair/ maintain a home
We (millennials) are the first generation that has lower living standards than our parents. As simple as that.
We tried. These labels of generations is confusing to me. But I get its hard, its never been easy.
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Then look at it this way .. people born in the 80s and early 90s have worse living standards than their parents.
That's the first time a generation has had worse living standards than their parents.
@@SuzanneO707yes, it has been easy. In the 80s and 90s it was easy. It now isn’t, so the people born in those decades will never have it as easy as their parents had it. Let’s not talk rubbish
@@GetGwapThisYearit’s never easy, for most people my children were born in the eighties and I tell you it was a struggle. Thatcher was at her height of destroying the country, interest rates in the mid teens, high unemployment, worrying about losing your job, no family network to fall back on as our parents passed away, my children never knew their grandparents the list could go on. My wife and I have never voted for Thatcher or any Tory. The young have a chance at the next election to vote out the despicable Tories.
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I totally agree with you. Bet if we replaced the govt with young people of no political leanings they would know exactly how to bring us back to having a future. Right on, Mate.
Except that many of the current crop of (2019) Tories are quite young and not as well experienced.
Baby boomers speak like they were actually in WW2 & not born in the aftermath, during the post war settlement that meant loads of investment & a massive boost to workers rights & the working class living standards
Honestly I've had Boomers try that one to my face. Like mate I can count, reading some comics in the 60's doesn't make you a war veteran.
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Most insightful comment here. Not to mention Daddy America pouring billions into rebuilding Europe via the Marshall Plan (of which the UK was the single biggest benefactor).
I was 18 when Thatcher brought in the poll tax and refused to pay the huge bill I suddenly had even though I still lived with my parents, I was black listed because of it and couldn’t even get a bank account for 6 years after. I have deeply hated the Tories ever since. Keep up the fight Owen
She screwed up a lot of people. We used to fight the NF and BNP and stand up against Apartheid.
I always find entertaining when an older generation speak about 'tough times', but were able to pay mortgage from one wage, have a child and get along quite OK.. Now, you would be needing a social support to get along. It is impossible. And if you get social support, no home ownership. Not to mention, older generation often could borrow up to 100% of the house value.
What do we get now? People can buy a share of ownership. Wow, amazing! Thanks!
And shared is such a scam. You can "buy" 25% and rent the rest but YOU have to pay ALL of the maintenance fee not the landlord. That fee will go up above the level of inflation every year. It's a scam.
I always find it entertaining when this generation talks about tough times, and then can only reference home ownership as an example.
@@lincolnduke Did you stop watching the video before the 5 minute mark?
Well said mate. As a Gen X, i totally get how unfair it is for younger generations. The lady you were talking to was squirming in her seat, with no facts, just dire rhetoric.
Who was entitled there?
If Gen X had the same childhood that I had 50 years ago they would think themselves lucky today.
@@stephengraham1153 Isnt that just the thing though? My parents were children in the war and if you had the same childhood you would think yourself lucky today.... And so it goes on.....
@@stephengraham1153en x childhood was 50 years ago!
@@nicksmith.arch2 Correct, I meant to say Gen Z. It was early in the morning and I was still half asleep :-)
That woman has such a smug look throughout. “I know you are right but I’m just entrenched in my ways and will throw out sweeping statements”
Is it hatred, or is it because they are easy targets for the Tories because they vote less than older generations?
Since the destruction of union power ordinary dont have real matter to tories, companies and the rich have real power that they can leverage to get what they want. A fortune 500 company doesn't get a vote in a election but it has more political power then we do.
Young are easy targets because they are not wealthy or home owners, which is a vast majority of the Tory base.
Both?
It seems many of the young are not as virulently racist as they hoped so they must find another way to create others.
@@oneoflokis Probably both. The Tory way is to divide society, divide and rule is a classic tactic and has worked for the Tories for years. The resentment of the Tories for other groups of society who strive to improve their lot is staggering. I'm in the older group, I'm retired, I've worked very hard but done OK. The way I see it is that it is our DUTY to help improve the lot of those that follow, unlike the Tories who seem to think that it's just another target to enrich themselves.
I'm gen x. Still renting. Never voted Tory in my life.
You are spot on Owen ! I hate ageism. It's got worse since I was young and it's a terrible thing . The youth are being left out more and the whinging from the elders must be addressed . This country has a Victorian hangover !
I don't know anyone from my generation I'm in my late 50's who votes Tory (except one gold digger 😂) who have voted Tory?
How could anyone even just look at that woman and not see how much of a villain she is
TBH when have the Tories ever cared about young people?
Try never 😊
@@michaelshanahan4042 They love young Tories.
Apart from that, never.
When they’re young and rich.
They only care about other tories, it is not just the young they hate. 'lower than vermin'
They only care about people with money in their pockets
As a baby boomer I feel sorry for today's youth. My generation mostly lived charmed lives. With today's work stresses I fear workers will burn out by the time they're 40. The need for university education at great, individual, cost, and the high cost of housing makes their lives that much harder.
It just the growing greed market now adays.
@@susanbrown2909 it is but we, collectively, allow it. Every generation has its battles but I'm not sure that all are willing to fight (not with violence) for their right to live safe and enjoyable lives..
@@voulafisentzidis8830we fought the BNP and NF in the 80s.
@@cdean2789 yes but that was 40 years ago. I'm retired but remember the time when workers fought (some died) for the right to an 8-hour work day. With unions no longer being valued, few believe in even the spirit of ensuring that we have time for things outside of work.
mate, most people have had 5 burn outs by 40
I'm an older millenial started as a Tory voter, even in 2010 (because I grew up in a Tory house). But I can't see myself voting Tory for the foreseable future.
Whoops.
I'm a senior citizen and agree with you 100% Owen.
The pink suited Cruella Deville woman was rather unpleasant wasn't she? No surprises there I suppose. Well done Owen.
I don't know how you do it you keep going up against these insane people and remaining so calm and able to retain the information that clearly they lack without ripping anybody's head off I couldn't do it. You are my hero.!
Owen, how you sat there resisting the urge to slap her smug face shows epic levels of self control. A level I personally don't have.
He’s stoic
It comes with being a professional journalist
As a U.S. American and long-time fan of Owen and consumer of British media . . .I am always surprised by how similar the U.S. and UK are in their societal rot. Yet, the Brits are loathe to be compared with U.S. Americans, and the U.S. Americans consider this country superior to the UK. The truth is that both countries are beset by a class and power structure that have fully eroded the advancement made in the 20th century, and are now firmly regressed to the Victorian/Edwardian eras. Where we go from here, only the universe knows. Smh.
Great video. I'm forever impressed you manage to stay so calm on these programs when faced by these smug opponents... I mean you can see it dripping out of her, she literally hates the fact you are speaking truth and she can do nothing about it !
Thank you Owen. You speak so much sense. Keep it going.
Hi baby Owen, I am 77 and agree with everything you say.
How dare she smile like that while you talk about how hard it is to buy a home 😭
For Boomers going to uni, they got grants and not student loans. For many boomers they did an apprenticeship whilst at work. My son who is a graduate worked in IT and in his spare time was expected to study for management accounting qualification.
That GMB woman lambasts young people for expecting everything. Untrue, but she would, I imagine, support the existence of the mass media and advertising system that manufactures individualism and consumerist desire
Thank you for your excellent videos Owen. I am a boomer (born 1954) who was lucky enough to be alive when we got a grant to go to university in the 1970s, when governments rightly invested in the young, recognising that they are the future of any country. The Tories are scared of the young because they must realise that their obsession with cost-cutting of all services, and transferring more and more wealth to the very rich, has created generations of people who have to struggle to get by with little security. At the same time, younger generations are now more aware of the inequalities in society thanks to modern technology and social media in particular. I truly hope all these young people will vote en masse to get this reactionary and blinkered government out.
The lady that is deluded .
I'm in my 70s .Would not want to be starting off as a youngster now.
the lady is right, we expected a lot because they promised us a lot, and then screwed us over after the 2008 crisis
That's American capitalism for you.
Not really - the tory plans to privatise everything have been steadily implemented since the 80s. That's what has screwed everyone over - except the tories of course, given they sold it all to themselves.
Not really - the tory plans to privatise everything have been steadily implemented since the 80s. That's what has done everyone over - except the tories of course, given they sold it all to themselves.
the tory plans to privatise everything have been steadily implemented since the 80s. That's what has screwed everyone over - except the tories of course, given they sold it all to themselves.
the tory plans to privatise everything have been steadily implemented since the 80s. That's what has done everyone over - except the tories of course, given they sold it all to themselves.
Young people ... START VOTING!!! Make your voice matter.
Why does she smugly grin the whole time?! Nasty.
So basically what she's saying that every generation after WW2 are entitled....?
She has that frozen smile that says I’m so friggin embarrassed’ look😅😅😅
Voting tory to protect pensions, is like hoping a paper bag will hold water.
Dont forget how we have been shafted by brexit. How it has prevent free movement for both work and holidays.
I'm a gen-xer and even though it doesn't affect me, I can see how crazy things have become for the young now regarding getting on the housing ladder. The UK needs to get out of this houses are an investment mentality. A house is a home.
It's not just financially but socially too. I'm glad I grew up before social media. Young people now are often sucked into echo Chambers online, and weird alternate realities designed to confuse. There's so much misinformation online, as well as bullying and vanity. No wonder there's a mental health problem in many young people.
@@benfisher1376 Undoubtedly there'd be less youth mental health if the young had access to what the boomers enjoyed, for worry about the future is a cause of mental ill health as is poor experience. As regards misinformation, the newspaper industry and even the BBC has pedalling it for decades.
@Coelacanth1 I agree , however newspapers are not the same as an online rabbit hole, and not as dangerous. Also, calling everyone older "boomers" is divisive and childish imo
@@benfisher1376 So you're saying the likes of Novara and Open Democracy and DDN news are online rabbit holes or are you mistaking social media for news websites? Newspapers have always formed the fourth estate of which exists to maintain the status quo, hence why out lives just don't get any better.
The big issue that needs a National overhaul is access to affordable housing driven not by building affordable housing but by effecting a culture change where rents are brought under control and made more affordable. The notion that everyone should be on the property ladder as an owner is something that has caused a great deal of damage. Social housing and cheaper rentals need investment on a large scale.
Incredibly insightful discussion into the debate. The clips throughout show you finally taking these disgusting liemongerers to task.
That woman's face is the kind of face you'd never get tired of 👊ing
Thank you for covering this and while I agree that this is mainly a class issue, I think a part of it is protectionism from the older generations. I've met a fair few who are more than willing to burn our future to protect their pensions.
How?
well said young man
Ban rentals that haven't paid off the mortgage!
I'll overjoyed to see, when the 'young' come of age, the Tories be utterly destroyed.
However, the way Labour is going, it's not like the alternative is that much better. Hobson's Choice!
Well said Owen! It is much harder for youngsters these days. The university charges alone put many people off going. That does not do much for the future of this country.
It's the communal narcissism of the Tory party that's to blame, this cancer needs to be eliminated.
In the sixties, just about any steady job would give a single breadwinner in a home the ability to buy a house and support a family, now two breadwinners can barely rent a house let alone buy one.
That's false. A single breadwinner might have been able to afford to support a rented home and family, but to say a single breadwinner in just about any steady job could afford a mortgage is just not true. Working down the pits was a steady job, working in a steelworks was a steady job, it goes on, and that didn't equate to home ownership - certainly not where I'm familiar with. Even in a skilled manual job, being a single breadwinner wasn't enough to support a mortgage and family in many cases. Working class families on lower incomes - in steady jobs - relied on council housing.
Guess which Primeminister did more for home ownership than any other politician since the 60's - look it up, you will be VERY surprised! (respond if you cannot find it).
@@abody499my father in law worked down the pits, his dad worked down the pits. Both bought houses on a single salary.
@@abody499that’s absolute nonsense. My father and all of his friends in the 60s worked in factories and they all had mortgages. granted they were small, three bedroom houses but it’s absolute nonsense. What you’re talking about. He also told me recently that back then he could’ve afforded a big old farmhouse that needed doing up but chose a semidetached instead which was easier to manage. I went to a working class state comprehensive school in the 1980s and about 70% of my school peers lived in private residential houses with mortgages while 30% lived in council houses. It was unusual to rent privately. The local butcher who had his shop on a council estate bought a massive house and his wife didn’t have to work. He retired in his late 50s. Different times.
@@abody499 So... they could afford a rented house then, but now that rents are generally more expensive than mortgages, that highlights the issue even more.
And I presume you're referring to the council houses they were living in that they were able to buy at up to about 50% discount with the right to buy legislation in the 80's.
But to simplify the argument, I'm 20 years older than my son and even in my early 20's I could buy a house and live in it on my own, now 30 years later, that reality has turned in to a pie in the sky dream or nightmare, whichever way you want to look at it.
And it is no wonder ,£600bn of wealth has been transferred to property that belong to the minority of the population, and once more our mortgages are going up and the banks are once more reaping the rewards.
Well said Owen. Couldn't agree more, from a 57 year old.
I like how she just blatantly sits there gaslighting millennials…. Trying to convince us our lives aren’t getting worse it’s actually getting better! Wow!
The first time she swept her glasses off with a flourish was the best 😂
The old lady really finished her embarrassing opening dialogue as if she really said something haha
After the war, this country rallied together and for each other. Now..... 😢
Lost the plot.
It wasn't just "this country" which rallied, billions in grants and aid poured in from the US. The UK was the single biggest recipient of Marshall Plan grants, more than even France or Germany who had experienced greater damage. A lot of the post-war prosperity the UK enjoyed has more to do with Daddy USA's generosity than with British resilience or know-how.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia Truth in that, but at the same time, some people prospered better than others. Post war? There are still wars raging left, right and centre on this globe. And astronomical wealth is still in the hands of a few.
They have contempt for everyone who isn't a billionaire or one of their millionaire minions. It's frustrating to see so many of my peers who have their own home, mortgage paid, decent pension, a bit in the bank so smug about how they've done alright and think they're part of "the club". I worry what the state of care will be when I get old and infirm, not that far away, or the state of the NHS should I get really ill, I may be relatively comfortable but I couldn't pay for quality care long term or private medical bills.
Not to mention how hard it is for my kids, not just everything else but the difficulties of selling a flat post Grenfell, because that mess hasn't been sorted out despite six years to do so.
The middle class is being destroyed, soon it will only be the rich and the poor, tory voters need to wake up to this.
Her smile is hatred. Tories feed off fear and hate. The fear drives the hate. The hate solidifies their power.
So the solution is join our unions. Not labour. Our unions are the ones who fight with us for a real life.
Basically, we need a World War to start from 0 again.
Wow, so genius.
I’m a booming boomer So I know you are absolutely right ❤
*13p I USED TO PAY* for the buss and then in 1988 it went up to 65p after privatisation - I just looked the same ride is £8 now. £16 a day to get to work on public transport
£4,160 a year. Where I live in the EU it would cost £347 and that would be on a brand new battery electric bus on its own lanes with priority and free WiFi and Charging ports
THIS. It’s EVERYTHING. Housing, transport, food, energy. Every essential is up by 20-200%
Sums up rip off Britain
@@goldenhourg YES - everything is unaffordable. My sister lives in the UK, we talk every day and I get to hear the things she has to pay for and the price. The Dog Park - she had to PAY to sue the dog park for 1h - £12. There are 5 dog parks within walking distance of me - all free.
Every SINGLE thing she does, every time she goes out of the house she has to PAY. And its not pennies. We have free outdoor gyms all over the place, properly maintained. We have Free 5 aside football pitches, running tracks, and dirt cheap bike hire.
The best thing IMO - shops have to sell you 1 thing out of a pack at the % price of the full pack. SO if you want 1 tide pod out of a pack of 20 they will sell you ONE tide pod for 5% the price of the pack. Or a razor blade or a sticking plaster - anything. So there is NO premium for being poor. that makes a huge difference.
There is NO cost to participate in society here - in the UK you have to stay inside if you are poor.
Fan from Australia mate. Our tories are just as bad
Why is the blonde smiling and looking so pleased with herself??? And when she does not, she smiles and looks condescending. She is the entitled one! The one who thinks she deserves what she got because she worked hard. Like today's people are not working hard??
Being 18 and having rented 9x in my life, it's funny how these guys still berat us like we are entitled lmao.
Rented 9x since I was a child (just for context)
Yes, I have probably spent more in rent in 10 years than these boomers paid for their entire house, even adjusting for inflation.
Condescending Tories? Who'd ofthunk it?!
Of = didn't finish school
I just watched you talking about just stop oil and I could kiss ya! You did so well telling it “like it is” and made me so happy and gave me hope that others will have listened to what you were saying and thus decided to actually do something by voting for the people who see the Climate Crisis for what it truly is. It’s really come to the point of “make or break” because this particular Climate Crisis won’t go away! Thanks from the bottom of my heart!
The total assurance of these people, devoid of factual information, amazes me
I think it’s because most people have what we didn’t have when we were young. Phones, for instance. My parents used to walk a few streets every Sunday to a phone box to phone their own parents, but now everyone has a mobile. These people see what’s immediately visible but are blind to what’s just under the surface, the stuff that Owen describes. Their blindness is definitely wilful, because it means they can live on in smug comfort, without having to feel even a twinge of guilt about what my generation have allowed to happen.
I'm a Generation X but as usual Owen is on the mark. But what I recall mostly is the mineworkers strikes of the 70's & 84/85. I worked as an apprentice electrician prior to getting employed at my local coal mine, then moved a year later to the UK's last deep coal mine & worked for 30yrs. After being made state redundant from the pit, I had applied to work for the Ambulance Service A&E. My first Ambulance wage was the same in 2015 as my wage in 1985 that's how poor our young people are paid for assisting in saving lives. My first home cost me just over a full years wage before tax but house prices then in 1988 were shooting up daily (gazumping taking place). Now after being injured more than I ever was in the mine on the Ambulance I've had to take ill-health retirement after equipment failed on me. No compensation as the service did not follow making the vehicle off road for a week. My daughter bought her first house just before the 1st lockdown, 8.5 times her average wages with some help from us. I'm no Arthur Scargill fan, even though I've been a union representative for 36 of my 37yrs of working. But we were all warned what would happen if we let the then Conservatives do in the 80's. Our Police who assisted then must be some of the worst paid service staff for what they are doing today, I imagine the staff who are passed out soon walk away as they learn it's not worth it & can earn the same in Aldi if not more. Cheers Owen, apologies for the length of this statement.
Absolutely spot on.👍
To say that Millennials have it easy, especially when said by a boomer, points to their extraordinary obtuseness and disconnect to a economic and political reality they helped bring about.
Well said, Owen .agree with you 100% .I am 65, never voted tory, and never will
Im 61, I don't think the lady with the lipstick got it, at all. Selling off the council houses off was ridiculous. Thatcher sold everything worth having, it was hard in the 80s, but it is much worse now as we are now seeing the results, anyone who thinks it isn't is delusional.
*Im 53 - Gen X* If a magical fairy said to me today "I can make you 20 again" I would say NO.
I think that is the biggest inditement you could possibly have on society today. Id rather be 53 with a bad back than fit and healthy 20 year old with no hope of a long term career or house.
What the UK has done to young people is utterly disgusting. And the Tories have the gall to whine about dropping birth rates.
I'm 54, who made up these titles? So I'm Xrated then. I don't even have a clue about all that. Just think some people are clued up and some are not about actual real life struggles.
To use your sentence because I concur ; I'm 56 - Gen X If a magical fairy said to me today "I can make you 20 again" I would say NO.
But having said that, I exist in 100% support of the young, because I know somewhat of what they're going through, for we suffered what Thatcher did to industry and a lot more besides for many of us to have not ever recovered from that.
So why is Jonesy wearing that daft necklace?? 🙄
Funny how ‘entitlement’ is the word an older generation use to describe our own generations aspiration to simply match the living standards they had. Boiling down the argument to ‘ooo you just aren’t happy with what you’ve got’ doesn’t really work when we aren’t getting the personal and professional progression they had at the same point in their own lives. That’s the point, we aren’t happy with what we’ve got… because you demonstrated it’s possible to have better. And if they don’t feel it’s necessary that we should have those things, like a house or a family, then they fundamentally have to admit that they did, in fact, have it easier than us… given they seem so enthusiastic about turning this into a competition about which generation has it worse. As a result, it is they who are now the ones exhibiting entitlement by wilfully ignoring their own generational privilege… as though somehow they were the special generation that miraculously got all the things they wished for across multiple world economies, as if that wasn’t instead a sign of just being born at the right time in history.
2 quick questions.
Are you university educated?
Have you ever had a manual labour job?
Yes to both. I don’t see what difference it would make though given the huge decrease in living standards for young people more broadly across all of society…
Even though I'm not from UK. We all, around the world, have similar problems often. My best wishes to you, your subscribers, and people in UK in general. Peace and love to all of you.
Same to u my friend.
Are you living in the USA?
@@cdean2789 Nope, it's not an english speaking country. But it's culturally similar in some ways, now.
A lot of the cost of living is stuff people don't even think about. Cars were rarer 50 years ago, but are now almost mandatory for getting about, especially if you're in a place where the buses have been cut off. Car maintenance is expensive and you're expected to travel at maximum 90 minutes to work if you're unemployed.
Internet access is mandatory, because so much of our services are being integrated more and more with apps while, at the same time, access to brick and mortar buildings that provide those same services (like banks, or ticket offices) are being closed down.
Spiraling out of that, smartphones are mandatory due to the app system and how much of security authentication is tied into phone apps or text messages.
And the price of all that keeps going up and up and up.
Your comment about university debt is very relevant i would of been hammered with debt while trying to become a solicitor. It was £9,000 per year across 6 years. Because of this i think people my age are probably going to avoid university. Thankfully i avoided this and got a apprenticeship.
my family have always voted Labour but i will never vote Labour again as long as Starmer is Leader and it will probably a extreme right person like wes streeting who will become leader after him , if i vote again i will be voting Green if they stand in my area
I could barely pay attention to what you were saying earlier Owen; looking at you leaning back giving it both barrels looked like a scene from a Guy Ritchie film lol.
As an old Gen Z in Germany I can tell you, we have the exact same problem over here. The average age when buying a house is at 45 now. Everything down to the hospitals is privatised, and the pension age is steadily being raised so I'm not getting my hopes up that I will ever go into pension.
You're absolutely right, things are worse now for many and people can't live on hope. Thanks Owen
Some of us pensioners vote for the SNP as well Owen.😊
💯 agree
she can't stop smiling while you are describing hardships
Click like if you can't get an NHS dentist
One of your best yet, both factual and impassioned. It is really all about class, in essence no different to when I was born in 1952 but in some ways with a great deal less hope and closer to Marcuse's sentiments in 'The One Dimensional Man'. However I have faith in the young so, perhaps, 'An Essay on Liberation' is a better reference. All the best to you.
Wow! What compliment suffices? "This country needs you."