Absolute garbage of a proposal.
I'm fucking sick of hearing how tough it is for young people like everyone else had it easy. My mum and dad - like everyone else of their generation - had to live in a bedroom at their parents for years whilst saving every penny for a deposit for a mortgage, only to be told "come back next year" every time they went to see the manager of the building society.
When they finally got a house (the one I was born in), we had no carpets until I was old enough to remember us not having carpets. We had no fridge, no tv, no washing machine, no phone (landline! let alone mobiles of course which didn't exist), no Sky, no internet, no car, my bike was 2nd hand from one of the neighbours. A "treat" was a Vesta Paella on a Saturday. Eating out was something we did maybe once every 3 or 4 years.
And this was deeply impoverished people? No! It was NORMAL. My dad had a good job with Petrocarbon in Sharston and my mum worked as well.
When my Mrs and I got married, we had one chair from a 2nd hand shop and a deck chair for our lounge furniture. Nothing in in the kitchen diner at all. Our cooker was reclaimed from a scrap yard. My wife's mini cost £165 and we literally cried every time it needed an MOT and the work would be tens of pounds.
And yet all I get to hear is how my generation had it easy and how tough it is on young kids who are stuck with an old iPhone 7. Well fuck off.