I'm not too good with figures, but haven't we got a problem here?
What do you get when you combine record levels of student debt, a (still) out of control housing market desperately short of social housing, cheap credit, and the withdrawal of employer backed final salary pensions schemes...answers on a post card to the 'Lets all pray that interest rates stay in the single digits' competition...
Leaving aside the worrying long-term financial pigeons that a whole generation must fear coming home to roost, shouldn't we be just a bit concerned that one in four parents now have adult children living at home?
posted by Paul @ Monday, June 20, 2005
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Born in the 60's, hitting labour market in 80's, Thatcher, Major, then a Left wing Tory called Blair - what else do you expect? A caring society, Socialism or old fashioned labourism needs to make a comback pretty soon. But how you do it, I just don't know and I am pleased to be 67. Some of us did fight, but we lost out. Sorry.
Think one challenge for us has got to be helping Labour to trust the electorate, rather simply conceding ground to the right.
On a whole range of issues politicians are out of step with the people they are supposed to represent.
I think the electorate as a whole is far more radical than politicians give them credit for. Take bringing back rail into public ownership, or the delivery of public services as examples.
UNISON released a YouGov poll today showing 9/10 of the electorate want the public sector to deliver public services. But this isn't refllected at all in the current political discourse which is all about 'choice'.
UNISON link is here:
http://www.unison.co.uk/news/news_view.asp?did=2081
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