velvet donkey posted:Carnelian posted:velvet donkey posted:Why do you dismiss the war generation. That's how you speak.
My mum is 94. All her teenage were war.
My dad was a navigator over Burmah at seventeen.
You'd be a cop out.
Feck.
Velvet, in that case you must be quiet old, and don't you think you have a responsibility to help those working class people who will follow you? Aren't you being self centred?
I don't dismiss the war generation. The war generation pensioners were treated like dirt by the Tories in the 80s.
I DISMISS the post war generation baby boomers who act as if they, themselves were on the Normandy beaches and liberated us from the Nazis when most of them grew up on the help of the welfare state set up by Labour and further on benefited from property bubbles, free university education, Thatcher's socialism for the rich fire sale of the utilities.
Plus relatively cheep rents and mortgages by comparison with today.
The problem I have with Brextards is they like to pretend they made these sacrifices. If you are 70 years old now, you were born AFTER the war. You didn't fight the Nazis, you weren't even conceived! YOUR parents made the sacrifice, you didn't! It's about time babyboomer Brexiters stopped playing the martyr for a sacrifice they never made in the first place!
57 and it's quite.
well, you're not that old then! 