Re: Have the Boomers Pinched Their Children’s Futures? - with Lord David Willetts
Posted: February 27th, 2023, 9:45 am
The problems are the fault of immigration (done badly) not immigrants.Spet0789 wrote:To be clear, you’re accusing him of evilly blaming boomers when actually it’s all the fault of immigrants?SimonS wrote: In a nutshell, there are huge elements that are missing from his discussion. Using his figures the population of the UK would be around 40 million, instead it is (according to the census) around 75 million and according to the supermarkets around 85 million ( the census covers the number of people 'counted', the supermarkets measure the number of people buying food and hence the idea that people destroy 30% of the food they buy to make the two figures compatible) The fact that immigration currently replaces somewhere between one third and one half of the total increase makes his figures a nonsense. One could just a viably point out that it isn't those immediate descendants of post war Britain that have stolen the Futures, but the large number of immigrants who have arrived during the deskilling and comparative lowering of wages ( yes, wages went up but not as quickly as the expectation of the standard of living, So yes. I may have bought my own house at 30, but I did not have the money to furnish it, heat it (no central heating), maintain it properly and after paying the mortgage and travel fares to work had just over £20 a month for food and bills.
There are lots of 'forgotten nastinesses in his theory, summed up in his histrionic patronising aimed at providing "them" with a largely silent target to blame and demand reparations from.
Deeply unpleasant propaganda by an evil man.