Baby boomers, as a cohort, benefited from free education, generous welfare and cheap housing, then voted for parties which denied those things to their kids.
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“Would you like your children to have a better life than yourselves?” You Gov asked them. And the reply came back: “Fuck 'em.”
Somewhat inflammatory headline for the charts above:
http://www.newstatesman.com/2017/08/yougov-research-brexit-proves-baby-boomers-hate-their-own-children