No Country for Young People: From record rents to punitive tax hikes and skyrocketing student loan rates, Britain’s elite is forcing young people to pay the cost for economic crisis – and it won’t stop until they organise to fight back.
No Country for Young People: From record rents to punitive tax hikes and skyrocketing student loan rates, Britain’s elite is forcing young people to pay the cost for economic crisis – and it won’t stop until they organise to fight back.
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Or on the flip side I’m honestly starting to think we’re going to see quite a serious brain-drain as any young professional with internationally in-demand qualifications/skills is going to just leave. Fight against the ingrained biases and established political norms of the country, when even just commenting that things are a bit shit seems to trigger half the population into treating you like some kind of traitor? Or just find a better paying job with a better lifestyle overseas? Seems like a fairly easy choice.
Just punishing students for not voting conservative and to please their boomer voters.
Honestly this country should be counting down the days until this dreadful government is out of power.
I’m 33 and leaving the country. Many who can will follow.
Why play the game when we can just quit and play a better one with fewer debuffs?
I fear “fighting back” may soon turn out to be meant literally. Structural violence won’t be ended by simply asking politely. It won’t even be ended by asking *im*politely.
I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will be renting until I die, when house prices are rising at the rate of tens of thousands per year it’s inevitable, even more so when you take wage stagnation into account.
In 20-30 years it will be uncommon for an individual to own their home, most will be renting from corporations for eye-watering amounts.
As a young person living and working abroad I can honestly say the UK is a shithole, you couldn’t pay me to come back, regardless I earn more then UK job offers.
I feel the problem is the government and old people who have milked the country dry, loaded up on debt and dumped it all on the young who now have to support their lifestyle.
The old should have all their benefits removed, no you didn’t work all your life paying into the system your contributions were pocket change and a laughably early retirement age, you shifted all the real payments to the next generation.
There needs to be a big reset, all the corpses can keep their gold plated pensions, they have paid for it right? Lol! Young people can pay into a different pot of gold separated from the old truffle pigs
Out of curiosity, why are there no protests against the government for all that’s going wrong with this country? Why are there only protests by certain demographics such as the stop oil group and insulate Britain. Surely more focus should be on protesting to get the tories and Boris out?
Okay, let’s organise ourselves!
Because I’ve been faithful voting since I was allowed to from 2008 (I voted in the London Mayoral election and was certain a proven ignorant clown like Boris Johnson could never win, but we know how that went!) and this country has gotten worse. We’ve gone too far and I’m not sure if we can return to normalcy. I’m truly tired and I’m planning to leave if things don’t change (May 2022 election will be the decider for me).
They’ve also extended the period after which you no longer have to repay a student loan, from 30 to 40 years!! The whole point of all this is that that elites don’t want the lower classes getting a decent education. There’s nothing more dangerous than an educated working class.
Or you can just leave. I know three people who have left for Europe and just stopped paying their student loans. This is what the government are facing. A total collapse of SLE and a brain drain. This has to be the dumbest self destruction in history.
Idk what the cut off is for young but I turn 30 this year I feel I’ve constantly been walking into a brick wall most of my life for a combination of factors but and I’m just exhausted
As someone who is almost 30, i’ve given up on the idea of owning any property due to the sheer cost of it, I won’t bother to learn how to drive as it’ll cost me too much to run a car, insurance would rip me off. Even going on holiday in the UK is gonna to cost me half a grand.
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And if i start earning above the lowest threshold, I’ll be taxed and see more of my cash disappear. Not to mention, the cost of food going up, everything going up. I am expected to basically give up everything and live on gruel if i ever want a house. I won’t be surprised if next year, the National Insurance skyrockets because Boris needs to please his voters.
I’d of left for NZ or Aus 5 years ago if it wasn’t for the fact my partner has family in the UK who she wasn’t willing to separate so long distance from. Now we have kids that’s doubly so.
First step is cancelling all student debt. They already do it 30 years after your get your degree, just do it now.
Leave the country kids. Other young peoples of the world have had the gumption to do it en masse, Brits need to start thinking with their passports as well as their wallets.
I’m leaving the UK in 2 months 🙂 no point living in England soon it will be a third world country
I entered the workforce proper in 2007, by the time ‘young people organise’ I’ll be in my 40’s and if they start to shift the burden from the young to the old, I’ll be picking up that tab too? Because those actually responsible will have retired by that point.. whoopety fucking doo.
Even if the ‘younger generation’ ‘fight back’ someone will still pay for it. And i doubt it will be people that can afford it
Are the students paying for the elite’s losses caused by our CORRUPT PM and his CORRUPT government????
But where are we supposed to go? Many countries around the world have the same problems with skyrocketing rent and prices and there’s only a few countries that are English speaking.
But where are we supposed to go? Many countries around the world have the same problems with skyrocketing rent and prices and there’s only a few countries that are English speaking.
I’d love to just up and leave the UK and go live somewhere like Germany or Norway but it seems so difficult. Especially since my line of work is incredibly hard to get into. I’m just waiting for the mass riots – if we ever get ballsy enough to do something like that.
My brother left the UK in the 90s, he comes back for visits but will never come back to live. He seemed to have a knack in knowing what was looming so took his degree and his electronics skills and left, he’s settled where he is, earns ginourmous amounts of money, there’s no way he’d earn that here, and lives a lifestyle that he’d never have here.
My advice for what it’s worth, get your degree and get on a plane. You’ll never get what you want in this country. You owe it to yourselves, you owe nothing to the country