Broken Britain

From tuition fees to workfare to benefit cuts to young parents, to careers stitched up by free internships and temporary contracts, a clear ideological and electoral decision has been made. 

These young people don't vote, they don't pay much tax, and they are superfluous to a Tory win.

It is older people who vote. Thus the freezing, half-starved pensioner is always wheeled out – not the comfortably-off guy playing golf in Marbella – to be pitted against feckless, hooded youth – as though we have to choose between them.

We don't.

The reality is that under-25s are pitted against their own parents. If you have a house, you better keep it so they have somewhere to live. If you have a job, stick at it, bite your lip, because they might find employment tough.

 Cast your ideas globally at twentysomethings with few prospects and high expectations.

Whatever erupts may be contained. Anyway these kids only want trainers and TVs.

But how do we also write off the graduates without any work? Or the hospital nurses who cannot afford to live in the cities where they work? Or the mothers who cannot afford childcare, so are living off the state?