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@ChrisKafetzis @BovrilG Typical selfish boomer, can't say I'm surprised though, seems like par for the course.

@EssKayFlex @BovrilG You really have no idea about me. But please carry on. I’m currently in a cruise indulging in good food and wine , thanks to my petty cash… oops, I mean state pension

I’ve been trying to be more understanding to Boomers over the last few days so I feel I’ve earned the right to say this to them. You are an electoral bloc whose power peaked in the late 2010s and will start to decline more and more precipitously as the oldest Boomers start to die off. Being asset-rich and cash-poor, you are INCREDIBLY vulnerable to a confiscatory government. Unless you can build some sort of working social contract for younger people, you will almost certainly spend the last decade of your life in a cheerless State care home being occasionally slapped around by surly West African carers.

@thebronx771 @rosie_eats Yes, I badly worded it I apologise

@EssKayFlex @rosie_eats Thats what I was meaning. The boomers are desperate to be compared with their own parents who did actually have it hard in the 30s and 40s

The forensic questioning of everything a young person has ever done in order to avoid facing up to basic economic reality is soooooo interesting

@thebronx771 @rosie_eats Boomers never experienced WWII. The youngest boomers were born in 1946. Yet another false way for boomers to steal valour and pat themselves on the back for something they never did.

@rosie_eats The boomers parents did actually have a hard time of it with the great depression, ww2 etc. The boomers themselves seem desperate to make out they had an equivalent hard time.

@Brendan80704486 @HasAhmed_ Nobody is blaming her, at least I'm not, and if people are then they're lost. I'm blaming the generation as a large portion because the politicians who ruined the country were largely voted in by said generation, and said politicians were largely a part of that generation too.

@EssKayFlex @HasAhmed_ Yes - and my point is blame politicians like Blair and bankers/central bankers and big housing developers for our problems re housing. Not some 80 year old housebound elderly lady sitting in front of her one bar electric fire. Focus on who is really to blame - it isn't her!

I’m glad more people on my TL are finally calling out boomer entitlement. The old “just cancel Netflix and save like we did” argument ignores the reality we face today. Housing costs have outpaced wages by multiples, student debt is at record highs, and real wage growth for young people has stagnated for decades. In the 1970s, the average home was ~3x annual income, now it’s often 8–10x+. Tuition for uni used to be free; now it leaves people in debt for decades. It’s no longer about lattes or subscriptions in an economic system that no longer offers the same baseline opportunities, yet the young today still gets judged by outdated standards.

@Mooseysmam @Margare21245962 @higgyboson Fuck if I know, country was fucked beyond belief way before I was able to vote or have any sort of political awakening, and every year our country is sold further down the river by globalist pro-immigration leftists. If I had the money I wouldve moved to another country long ago.

@EssKayFlex @Margare21245962 @higgyboson So what are you going to do about it ?

Dear Techboy, You seem to be slightly annoyed at people who own larger than average homes after they've worked for 50+ years. We have a lovely big bungalow with a large garden, summerhouse, huge workshop for me, smaller workshop for Mrs Higgy. The garden faces South so we get lots of sun and, as there's lots of glass on the rear of the house it benefits from huge amounts of solar heat gain when the sun pokes out from behind the clouds in the winter. We're all toasty and warm because we've insulated it really well and have a very efficient heating system. We can park both vehicles on the driveway, which is nice. We have a massive garage too. Which is useful for storing all manner of.... well, stuff. We've made one of the bedrooms into a dedicated music room. It's rather lovely. I can listen to all my old vinyls and, as we're detached, I can play them REALLY loud without upsetting any neighbours. You'd love it. The loft space is absolutely ginormous too. We could probably convert it into a swanky apartment and rent it out to someone for a tenner per month as a "gesture", including all bills, but do you know what? We don't really want to share. We like it as it is. Oh, and we have a huge Easter Island statue in the front garden just because we can. I don't feel guilty about any of this by the way. Mrs Higgy spent her entire 40 year career as an NHS nurse, which is some feat. And, at 66, I'm still slogging my guts out as a Painter and Decorator which isn't just about painting someones kitchen ceiling but involves lots of climbing up and down ladders and clambering over scaffolding etc. So, in summary, we like it here and we're staying.

@ian87730 @higgyboson No mate, this downhill spiral was really kicked into gear by Blair, whose one of your generation, and was voted for by people from all age groups at the time. I wasn't able to vote until 2018, by which time the country was already fucked.

@EssKayFlex @higgyboson You probably voted for these idiots. I work in aerospace btw.. whats your point?

@flavell5 @chatswithem So the 2 years during a key stage in our early lives we gave up to protect pensioners during a pandemic wasn't compassion? Because I more than happily would've kept on working, so I'll take compensation for it then if it wasn't needed.

@chatswithem Compassion isn’t a thing for many of the young these days. One day they will learn when they too get old. They think they are all invincible these days and that life is one big computer game.

Hearing opinions that elderly with houses that are near a million pounds should be made to sell , and why should they have state pensions etc I find this really unpalatable I have someone in my family with a home that's not a million but would be deemed an expensive home by many But it's been in her family for generations She's worked all her life and never taken a penny from the state She's mid 70s She's just over the state pension - by a few grand . Which she's taxed on. So lives on circa 14k She just about manages . No cleaner. No updated carpets. Etc And she's earned her state pension. Why should she be forced to sell? Her home is very old and has increased in value. And it's her home . We live in a society where everything is so expensive . Where more is given to those that don't And people are envious of those with something to show Our culture is so Topsy turvy Success should be celebrated Hard work should be celebrated And our elderly respected And people should live within their means and only have kids they can afford And if we don't let millions of people into the U.K., we wouldn't have a housing shortage And if we didn't have a welfare state that was so absurd And had a Gov that was responsible in managing the county's finances And used our resources properly There'd be plenty of money to go around

@ChrisKafetzis @BovrilG You mean your five nieces and nephews that are probably already well off? Lmfao, I was more so referring to the 2 years during covid where our lives were put on hold to protect YOU, yet none of the older generation came out to say "let young people who aren't vulnerable work"

@EssKayFlex @BovrilG So having no kids, my five nieces and nephews will inherit my estate. And I’ve done nothing to help the young ? LOL you know fuck all about my life

@Brendan80704486 @HasAhmed_ And again, what generation were these people you're talking about from?

@EssKayFlex @HasAhmed_ I was merely observing how and when house prices become unaffordable. Do you think it was just because all these over 60s you now regard as evil cast a spell? You really are missing the cause entirely - bankers not boomers and politicians like Blair who enabled them!

@ian87730 @higgyboson It's almost as if THE JOB MARKETS FUCKED, holy shit mate are you really that fucking thick? I thought people with your IQ only existed in supported living.

@EssKayFlex @higgyboson 60 hrs a week for peanuts? Get a better job then ffs . 🤣 asset millionaires hey assets they've worked towards you envious fucking bellend .

@ChrisKafetzis @BovrilG At least you can die knowing you did absolutely nothing in your later years to help the younger generations progress, and in fact did everything in your spite filled power to make sure they struggled as much as possible.

@EssKayFlex @BovrilG Exactly. Win win.

@Steven73253802 @mikemherriot @BovrilG 10 million people over the age of 60 voted for the Boris wave, think you should put that wig on yourself you clueless dunce.

@EssKayFlex @mikemherriot @BovrilG "boomers"? Stfu, man.

@Brendan80704486 @HasAhmed_ You realise I was 9 years old in 2008. My generation were barely councious when Blairites destroyed this country. Our political awakenings were long after this country was already being picked apart by vultures. And guess who gave us the Boris wave? Boomers.

@EssKayFlex @HasAhmed_ And who took house prices from affordable to unaffordable in just one decade with a 400% increase. Under Thatcher you could buy a nice house in London for £50k. Not so by 2008 thanks to a Labour government voted in disproportionately by young people who then priced them out.

@Brendan80704486 @HasAhmed_ Load of bollocks, social media and modern technology has stunted my generation not helped it. And btw the oldest boomers were born in 1946 so they didn't even experience the war, stop stealing valor.

@EssKayFlex @HasAhmed_ Yes it was easier and simpler but you didn’t also have the benefits of modern technology or accessible global travel. But I expect having bombs dropping over your head every night from 1940 onwards or fighting in WWII wasn’t much fun either. So it is all relative.

@ChrisKafetzis @BovrilG It's alright duck, when your generations gone and all the property they're hoarding is put back on the market, housing prices will finally come down due to supply and demand, so we've only got a decade or two left to wait:)

@BovrilG Don’t fret. Us boomers with tons of equity in our properties, can afford higher end care in our old age. This means less income to be inherited which of course, means less inheritance tax to fund the scroungers of today. It’s a win, win situation

@mikemherriot @BovrilG Boomers gave us the Boris wave and voted the country down the shitter for the last 50 years, I think it's justified to be a little pissed off at the people who pissed our future down the drain.

@BovrilG To think Boomers all think the same way politically is stupid. But the rest of your post shows you to be a nasty, ageist and racist moron

@Brendan80704486 @HasAhmed_ My gran was born in 46 and lived through everything and had to raise 2 children alone because her husband died in a car accident before seatbelts were mandatory. She still tells me it was easier when she was younger. Think that should tell you something.

@EssKayFlex @HasAhmed_ Well criticise the individuals then - not an entire generation. Because a boomer means anyone 60 plus or so - including I assume your gran. My grandparents are old enough to have experienced World War II - I think they had it pretty tough too you know when they were young!

@higgyboson @kev_hatch Just look at whats happening to the country. Starmer selling it down the river, hundreds of thousands of immigrants a year, price of living going up exponentially every year, energy crisis due to net zero bollocks. I'll be surprised if there's an England left by the time I retire

@higgyboson @kev_hatch Attitude? It's reality you dunce.

@Brendan80704486 @HasAhmed_ None of my parents or grandparents are like the clueless boomers on twitter. My grandmother tells me every time I see her how she's glad she grew up when she did and she's disappointed to see what we have to deal with now.

@EssKayFlex @HasAhmed_ You must live a really sad life hating on your parents and grandparents! All old people aren't the cause of your problems - some are quite poor. Tony Blair oversaw house prices rise 400% from 1997 to 2008. Young people voted Labour at higher levels - so perhaps they were at fault