Brief Golden Age?

[Khandro]

I read of a conversation between photographer, David Bailey (82) & Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brand, Manolo Blahnik (78), it goes;

' Blahnik: So sometimes I just have to sit down and say: 'God, did all this happen?' All the excitement, it doesn't exist anymore, maybe because I'm old.

Bailey: It's not because you're old. It doesn't exist. '


Perhaps you have to be of a certain age to know what they were talking about, but looking around at the status quo, I do, - do you?

[Khandro]

The lowest achieving cohort of children in the UK now is that of working class white boys. They have been subjected to a confused education where they have been told that there is something wrong & should be guilty of their ethnicity, they have been told that if they don't want to grow up as men, they can change to be women.

The Tavistock Clinic which carries out what is called, 'Gender Identity Development Service' (GIDS) is guilty of child abuse & must be dealt with, but where is the governmental leadership? The latest pre-covid figures available (2018/19) show the Tavistock treated 2,500 young people to ensure their transition from a gender 'different to the one they were assigned to at birth' of these 2,376 were under 18, ten children were unbelievably 4 or younger & almost 230 were below 10.

Children are being taught to despise the history of their own country by maniacs pushing a confused Marxist agenda. I attended a parents evening for one of my grandchildren & the headmaster was wearing a superman tee shirt! - geddit? I'm one of you kids, join my gang. Is that leadership?

No, this isn't going to be looked back on as any form of golden age; this probably the sh-i*t age & it's our fault.

[royfromaus]

What as all ^ that got to do with any perceived 'golden age'?

[emmie]

i beg to differ on those who bought thier own houses, it wasnt easy to do, and many didn't because wages were low. Those that did worked hard for it. Pardon people for living longer thats down by and large to medicine, better health care. As to being fat and happy if they are they earned it.

[Untitled]

And that is all todays young people want emmie the chance to earn security and get fat and happy like the postwar generation did. Unfortunately they dont have the same chance because the gap between average house price and average wage has become far far higher than it was before. Typical earnings now have not been growing for ten years... earnings then grew handsomely over time. Hard work today is not rewarded like hard work then.

[emmie]

my mother wasn't fat and happy as you so dismissively put she went through the war years No one i know then bought a house, couldn't afford it, you rented and that was it

[ichkeria]

I’m with Roy on this. Unless you can explain what you mean by Golden Age it’s hard to respond. It just turns into a “it wasn’t like this in the old days” moan.
It never was, if you listen to some

[naomi24]

// the gap between average house price and average wage has become far far higher than it was before//

That's as may be but there are thousands upon thousands of new houses being built all over the country - and from what I see they're selling quickly too.

[emmie]

no one apart from one friend has property, my family mostly rent. Go to the south coast where there are hundreds of thousands of new homes going up, someone must be able to afford them.

[Khandro]

ichi: I have a distinct feeling 'the golden age' passed you by.

[royfromaus]

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/no-one-got-the-sixties-better-than-david-bailey

[Untitled]

I am talking about the perspective of todays young emmie vs the generation that came before them born in the 20 years or so after the war... not sure if that includes your mum or not.

naomi
it might look like a lot of houses are being built... but nowhere near demand and many of them are simply being purchased by buy to let landlords - people who tend to be older and set very high rents which disproportionately hit the young. the market has been allowed (deliberately in my opinion) to become completely distorted.

[Untitled]

"no one apart from one friend has property, my family mostly rent."

I must be completley wrong then if that's the case for one family somewhere in the country... obviously i am talking in general terms.

[emmie]

mum was born in 1929 and lived to see old age - she didn't buy her house then nor later, she simply couldn't afford it. The one person i know who has property now in the family has it via her husband who walked out last year. She will get a split of the house thank heavens and will look for a new property some time next year
but they are hundreds of thousands of homes going up on the south coast.

[royfromaus]

The golden age definitely passed me by. I would be lucky if I could say De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da when this golden age was happening.

[Untitled]

If your mum was born in 1929 then she really isn't relevant emmie.

[emmie]

then who is, you said fat andd happy people?

[Untitled]

"I am talking about the perspective of todays young emmie vs the generation that came before them born in the 20 years or so after the war..."

I'm quite aware that the prewar generation did not have things easy unlike many of their children.

[emmie]

those like me in the 60's you mean

[Untitled]

Yes emmie. i dont know your circumstances but those born between the 40s and 60s are britain's wealthiest generation... they do indeed tend to be fat and happy.

https://www.ftadviser.com/investments/2018/04/06/baby-boomers-17-times-more-wealthy-than-millennials/

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-6590611/One-five-baby-boomers-millionaires-wealth-nearly-doubled-decade.html

[ladybirder]

All my grandchildren old enough to buy a house have bought one and I am very happy they had the will to do that. All my grandparents on both sides, bought thrown houses. I must have been one of the first women in England to get a mortgage on my wages only. It was difficult. The house was a bit small for us, I would have liked bigger and could have paid more by borrowing 3 x my wages instead of just 2 times. But as I had 4 children and myself to keep on my wages alone after I had paid my mortgage then I had to be content with a smaller house.
Where there's a will there's a way.