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Originally Posted by ianch99

Why don't you try again? This time with something sensible. Go on, you can do it! We believe!!

BTW, I am old ...

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Maybe you take offence easily? The Baby Boomer term is not a sound bite rather it describes a generation that had advantages long since removed from the current one. This needs to be recognised. It is an important backdrop to the current attitudes of these people today. BTW, I am a Baby Boomer myself ..

I appreciate your engagement in the points I raised. It is refreshing when compared to some who just snipe ..

We need to step back and above Brexit. Brexit is a symptom of the failed system we are inhabiting rather the cause. Your suggestions are good: PR would go a long way to normalising politics. The corruption point: so true. Far too many politicians although eager to do good at first are ground down by the system and end up as bottom feeders waiting for the time to get their pay off i.e. directorships, plum seats on quangos, peerages, etc.

We should introduce laws precluding post-Parliament "payoffs" for minimum of X years and pay the MP's a decent salary while they serve. Remove the tie in between lobby groups and politics and you increase the likelihood that MP's will work to serve the nation rather than work to serve themselves.

Apart from your ‘baby boomer’ remark, I largely agree with you. On the matter of baby boomer, Sajid Javid used the term extensively much along your lines, wanting to take from them to level matters out for the equally insulting term ‘millenials’ and later. To categorise people in this insulting way -people- is to be deplored.

The so-called ‘baby boomers’ did not have advantages. They worked to and responded to normal market conditions.

Those market conditions changed round a bout the time of Maastricht - I do see a connection. Economics changed, dependencies changed, employer behaviour changed, population influx eventually stretched the housing market and screwed the NHS much of that at a time when there was a global financial crisis and austerity.

Then throw Brexit into the mix, a decision taken by the population in the light of the above. The system actually broke, possibly irrevocably, when politicians went rogue and declared themselves as individuals who knew better than the people. That is unforgivable and it needs a clear out. As I said, a single transferable vote would be best - PR brings chaos through coalition and the associated political jostling.

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I should add that to bring housing into affordable bounds, land value has to reduce. The guvmin could compete with the private sector by giving up large swathes of land for free to developers who would be constrained by contract as to price and profit. That would eventually trickle through to general market conditions. This, in turn, would leave people with greater spending power and that would trickle through into employment, manufacturing and so on.

Something has to give.


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