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When did this country start to despise it's youth so much?

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Probably around the same time the youth of this country started to hate their country... You can't expect the older generation to pander to the whims of an ungrateful apologist generation.

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comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 5 minutes ago
The current (as I understand them) Brexit plans, also seem to totally ignore financial services requirements.

In what way?
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Single Market.

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comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 1 minute ago
The older generation have blamed the youth since forever. Nothing new in it.
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My great granddad's generation thought my granddad's was soft because they didn't have to march all the way to Belgium in a gas mask.

comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 1 minute ago
The older generation have blamed the youth since forever. Nothing new in it.
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Big difference being social media. Nowadays every kid thinks their opinion matters and every wants to hear it, just because there are so many platforms for them to voice every silly opinion they hold dear. When I was younger, if an adult told me I was being stupid I generally accepted that. Nowadays they run to social media to scream child abuse and oppression. There are actual adults in their twenties (see this site) who believe we live under a repressive system of government, in a racist, xenophobic, bigoted and neo-fascist society. And people let them have a voice! Idiots.

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comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
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comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
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comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 5 minutes ago
The current (as I understand them) Brexit plans, also seem to totally ignore financial services requirements.

In what way?
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Single Market.
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In what way though?
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Finance houses/banks, insurance companies etc all need financial ‘passports’ to trade in the EU.

Enables them to trade without individual authorisation from each country. Leaving the SM will strip lenders of their passports.

Which is why many banks are leaving the UK. For example financial services recruitment has risen 800% in Dublin since Brexit.

It’s also part of the reason why the pound is taking a hammering. As everytime there is a suggestion of leaving the SM markets get anxious.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-city-idUKKCN12B10R

Why is that Sizzle? Please enlighten me as to why it is worse for the Tories to do something that Labour had already done 3 years earlier.

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Give him 5 minutes to google the facts, then another 10 to get the counter arguments from one of his neo-marxist pages.

comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
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comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 1 minute ago
The older generation have blamed the youth since forever. Nothing new in it.
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Big difference being social media. Nowadays every kid thinks their opinion matters and every wants to hear it, just because there are so many platforms for them to voice every silly opinion they hold dear. When I was younger, if an adult told me I was being stupid I generally accepted that. Nowadays they run to social media to scream child abuse and oppression. There are actual adults in their twenties (see this site) who believe we live under a repressive system of government, in a racist, xenophobic, bigoted and neo-fascist society. And people let them have a voice! Idiots.
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Works both ways.

Now you can bend my ear and lecture me from halfway across the world, instead of waiting until I fly home for Christmas.

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When I was younger, if an adult told me I was being stupid I generally accepted that. Nowadays they run to social media to scream child abuse and oppression.

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Never heard anyone long for the 'good old days' where victims of abuse kept quiet and waited until the perpetrator was dead. This is a new one

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comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 13 minutes ago
When did this country start to despise it's youth so much?

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Probably around the same time the youth of this country started to hate their country... You can't expect the older generation to pander to the whims of an ungrateful apologist generation.
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Do the younger generation hate their country or do they have genuine grievances?

I'd say considering they don't benefit from cheap housing, free higher education and the opportunity to save for a very healthy pension, to live off in their latter years, the younger generation have every right to complain.

Works both ways.

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Social media is hardly rife with politically aggressive 60+ year olds scrutinising every action and voicing their opinion on every facet of people's lives.

You can't even like a steakhouse Facebook page these days without someone calling you a murderer, accusing you of supporting genocide against cows then posting a ridiculous meme full of questionable statistics.

My particular favourites are comments along the lines of "All UKIP supporters should be rounded up and killed. Dirty fascists!" Always written without a hint of irony.

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comment by CoutinhosHappyFeet (U18971)
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comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
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When did this country start to despise it's youth so much?

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Probably around the same time the youth of this country started to hate their country... You can't expect the older generation to pander to the whims of an ungrateful apologist generation.
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Do the younger generation hate their country or do they have genuine grievances?

I'd say considering they don't benefit from cheap housing, free higher education and the opportunity to save for a very healthy pension, to live off in their latter years, the younger generation have every right to complain.
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If they work hard they can acquire those things regardless. Don't make excuses for idleness. My younger siblings are in their mid/late twenties and had no problems getting on the property ladder.

comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 8 minutes ago
When I was younger, if an adult told me I was being stupid I generally accepted that. Nowadays they run to social media to scream child abuse and oppression.

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Never heard anyone long for the 'good old days' where victims of abuse kept quiet and waited until the perpetrator was dead. This is a new one
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I'm not talking about victims of crime. I'm talking about the self-entitled generation who weren't told "no" enough growing up.

comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
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comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 13 minutes ago
When did this country start to despise it's youth so much?

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Probably around the same time the youth of this country started to hate their country... You can't expect the older generation to pander to the whims of an ungrateful apologist generation.
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Do the younger generation hate their country or do they have genuine grievances?

I'd say considering they don't benefit from cheap housing, free higher education and the opportunity to save for a very healthy pension, to live off in their latter years, the younger generation have every right to complain.
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If they work hard they can acquire those things regardless. Don't make excuses for idleness. My younger siblings are in their mid/late twenties and had no problems getting on the property ladder.
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What do they do?

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comment by Ttliv87 (U11882)
posted 5 minutes ago
I'm terrified of a war breaking out because these are the pu ssies who would be sent to defend the country. Most of them would probably defect to the other side if our opposition was a communist regime.
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I'd think a sandal-wearing Englishman in a man-bun would make for one hell of a spy on the other side.

I'm pretty sure the government already has a few in place.