The Tory policy for young people in Britain is victimisation by design | Owen Jones
The Conservative party has made a strategic decision to stuff young people. Not out of sadism, not because it derives vicarious thrills from inflicting misery on the next generation: the Tories don't care because they have calculated that they don't have to. The young are less likely to vote, goes their rationale, and they are certainly unlikely to vote for us. We can safely ringfence them for economic pain, balancing the nation's books on their youthful backs, and we will suffer few political consequences for it.
Short-termism doesn't cover it. Britain's destiny is now in the hands of a generation soaked in pessimism, scarred by economic insecurity and decline, demonised by politicians and press barons. It did not need to be so: it was a choice.
They have stolen the essential of human existence, that which offers assurance at times of difficulty: optimism
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