Young people are wrongly targeting their anger against the older generation

Yup. There is the phrase "the greatest generation gave birth to the worst generation" for a reason.

Those who fought in World War Two fought to give their children everything; the NHS, education, employment, etc.

Those children have enjoyed the benefits of all these things and many more, and since then with their selfishness have fought to take that all away from their children. They climbed to the top of the ladder, pulled it up behind them and then shit on those below. Raising tuition fees, an obsession with property prices and buy-to-let portfolios, attempting to privatise the NHS, and most recently voting en masse to exit the EU.

I explained the benefits of EU membership to my parents (aged 59 and 60, with a massive property portfolio, and jobs above the national average wage despite never having gone to university).

Do you what they said to me? "We listened to your arguments on how voting remain would benefit you and let you do the things you aspire to. We then decided to both vote leave anyway because we have had enough of bloody immigrants. You can't get a walk in appointment thanks to those bloody foreigners. We hope in time you will come to respect that we know better than you on some things and will respect our decision. If it means you have to change your life plans well this is the world we live in now, so get used to it."

I got told to "get out and go back to London with your foreign friends and your latte" for telling them that they are a pair of selfish racists and I will not respect their decision.

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055497/JEREMY-PAXMAN-Baby-Boomers-selfish-generation-history.html)[Paxman wrote a great article on it.]

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