It’s All Their Fault. Neil Boorman

and Right or Labour versus Conservatives; it’s between Generation Debt and the Baby Boomers AND IT’S A FIGHT WE’VE GOT TO WIN

      Consider this book a manifesto and a call to action; a chance for those born in the Seventies and Eighties to respond to the chaos caused by those born in the Forties and Fifties. We are the generation that has to clear up their mess. This manifesto will explain why, and more importantly how.

      AGE IS MORE THAN A NUMBER

      Is it fair to say that every member of a generation behaves in the exact same way? No. Is it fair to say that a generation of people share certain characteristics? Yes. Each generation has a collective personality, which is shaped by the events of the time. For us, 9/11, the Credit Crunch and global warming defines who we are. For the Baby Boomers it was the post-war boom, which brought an explosion in population, unparalleled economic growth and a sea change in the way children were brought up.

       Boomers are easy to identify. As of their birthday in 2010, they’ll be aged between 46 & 64.

      BOOMING POPULATION

      The demographic model of the UK population looks like the side profile of your average middle-aged man: skinny chest and legs, and a great big sagging belly and arse in the middle. The skinny upper torso is the ‘Silent Generation’, in other words our grandparents, who were born before 1946. The skinny legs at the bottom are Generation Debt, born after 1964. The great big muffin top in the middle is the Baby Boomer generation, a population explosion that followed the Second World War.

      The outbreak of peace in 1945 brought a tidal wave of euphoria to our grandparents, millions of whom returned home from the war to start new families. In the early Fifties, the majority of young suburban wives fell pregnant, which resulted in a sharp rise in births during the post-war years – the Baby Boom. By the end of the Boom in 1964, a whopping 11 million babies had been born.

      You might think that we could have benefited equally, but with the advent of the Pill, birth control was so cheap, easy and effective that millions of Boomers put off having children until much later. This explains why our generation is so small in comparison.