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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
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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Your comments about boomers are so far off-beam its hard for me not to assume you are one. Who else could insist that black is white, up is down and move along, there’s nothing to see here, in the way you have.
This generation has consistently ridden the wave of the welfare state where and when it was most generous, bought houses cheaply while new building was a major activity and seen the value of their property soar even as the cost of their mortgages was inflated away.
You may despise the label “baby boomer” and what it insinuates but it is a cold, hard fact that those born in the two decades after WW2 continue to enjoy enormous economic advantages, often at the direct cost of their grandchildren.