Joe, some things were better, some things were worse.
See my previous post, my van drivers earn 30k, can get a flat 5 mins walk from me for 60k. My house is 160k. Yes, it’s impossible in the south, but plenty of places it isn’t.
I’ve got a below average house, couldn’t afford to go to uni, never had a pension bar the one I paid into. And I paid into it by saving, my last foreign holiday was 1991 and since then I’ve only had 6 holidays anyway. I might die before I take my pension, but you make choices in your life.
You have the same choice I did. Get a van, work hard, get some more, work harder, get a 7.5, work harder, get some trucks. That option is open to you.
mike68:
Often also at the expense of existing residents in the area who’s previously nice areas are turned into more urbanised higher density therefore lower quality areas.In which everyone then loses out and wants to then move away from often then ending up as low value immigrant populated ghettoes.So London’s expansion goes on.
1970’s Bradford.
Fings are exactly the same as they’ave alus been.
ItsJoe:
Haha. You’re so out of touch it’s hilarious. The facts are, you can work your backside off earning £40k a year and have nothing to show for it by the time you’re 60. When throughout the 80s and 90s you could be working from 16 and own your house by 40.
You’re saying this can be solved by going into unions and “standing together” shows how truly out of touch you are. The perks of being born in the 50s and 60s are for all to see. What are the perks of being born since then? Absolutely none. We are paying for the baby boomers whilst being told to shut up and work harder.
Which part of the economic realities of being a young worker in the late 1970’s and the 1980’s didn’t you understand.So tell me exactly what ‘perks’ have I supposedly got to show for my working life having told you that I still live in the parental home and not even entitled to a state pension let alone your bs Golden one ?.
The fact is It was my father’s generation who you’re actually referring to not mine and the better times that they enjoyed were all about their willingness to stand together and fight for better wages in real terms.Only to be called ‘militants’ and then see their children’s and children’s children’s futures wiped out to benefit the zb Germans who they’d fought and sometimes died against previously.
Might as well add brainwashed pig ignorance to ageist self entitlement issues and as such you’ve got what you deserve.Unlike many of us.Now run along and join your ageist Socialist rabble while waving your zb EU flags and begging Merkel and Juncker for some more crumbs off their table in the form of some of your own money back to pay for your in work benefits.
bobbya:
It all went wrong when Maggie Thatcher came in and bribed council house dwellers to get their votes,reason now no council houses for the kids of the same people who were bribed,do not RIP Maggie Thatcher.
Exactly. Thatchers mob started the rot, and the present maladministration seem determined to beggar us all.
I was born in 1953, and I certainly wouldnt want to be trying to find some bright spots ahead of me as a twenty something, just starting out.
bobbya:
It all went wrong when Maggie Thatcher came in and bribed council house dwellers to get their votes,reason now no council houses for the kids of the same people who were bribed,do not RIP Maggie Thatcher.
Exactly. Thatchers mob started the rot, and the present maladministration seem determined to beggar us all.
I was born in 1953, and I certainly wouldnt want to be trying to find some bright spots ahead of me as a twenty something, just starting out.
Oh wait a Conservative takes advantage of the something for nothing dependency culture of those within the social housing system.Who then predictably rushed to jump on the bandwagon of the get rich quick state subsidised house sell off scam.While calling their fellow workers,who were fighting for the wages and jobs to pay their own way in life, ‘militants’.Who would have believed it.
While it’s clear that nothing’s changed.With the following generations,of that self entitled dependency culture,now throwing their toys out of their pram because they also want a similar state funded cut price house provided at below market values,built at the expense of both the taxes and quality of life others,with a built in profit margin in it for the taking.
As for those lucky enough to have been born in the early 1950’s as opposed to late 50’s they obviously left school into a relatively much better economic climate than those of us who were born in the late 50’s and 60’s did.In which case I ‘could’ also go whining and whingeing about how good your lot had it at our expense in which I don’t remember anyone then giving a zb about youth unemployment and how tough it was to be a school leaver in the mid/late 70’s and in your early 20’s in the early 1980’s. But notice I won’t.
