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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 20, 2011 -- The Baby-Boomers could expect to find — and afford — somewhere to live, for it was the building boom which made Harold Macmillan’s reputation.
Those of us lucky enough to go to university could take it for granted that the state would tax the Unlucky Generation that came before to pay our fees and demand nothing from us in return.

Ours was truly the first cohort in history which could call itself both healthy and wealthy. Not that we really admitted to our wealth. As our possessions grew, so did our expectations, to the point where luxuries became essentials. Our grandparents aspired to mangles and meat-safes. For us, the conviction grew that we were deprived if we didn’t have freezers and flatscreen TVs.
These were not merely items it would be nice to have, but to which we had a right. The sense of entitlement made ideas of duty to some collective entity the preserve of fools in old-style hats and coats.
We had become not merely the luckiest but also the most selfish generation in history.

Our parents made-do-and-mended through the austerity years. But when fundamentalist murderers flew planes into the Twin Towers, what did that Lucky Generation luminary George Bush advise Americans to do? Go shopping. ‘Get down to Disney World in Florida,’ he said ‘Take your families and enjoy life, the way we want it to be enjoyed.’ Our parents had Clement Attlee, perhaps the greatest Prime Minister of the 20th century, who died leaving an estate worth £7,000. We have Tony Blair, the multimillionaire messiah.The overwhelming characteristic of this generation — my generation — became its self-absorption.

The government elected in 1945 under the leadership of Major Attlee laboured to build the new Jerusalem in Britain, a crusade for the greater good which would slay the five giants of Want, Disease, Squalor, Ignorance and Idleness. The children of the new Jerusalem had more personal ambitions. ‘Their parents and elder brothers and sisters had battled for healthcare, for education, for full employment and economic security,’ writes the author Francis Beckett, one of the early products of the plateglass principality of Keele University. When the first of the Baby-Boomers were beginning to think about settling down, 425,000 homes were built in Britain. Last year, the total was just over 100,000 — fewer than in any year since 1923.
‘The Baby-Boomers fought for, and won, the right to wear their hair long and enjoy sex.’ Opinion surveys show surprising numbers of this solipsistic generation still consider themselves — absurdly — ‘anti-establishment’ and ‘less trusting of those in authority’.

The truth is, the Lucky Generation are in authority and have been for years now.Between us, we have been on the first binge known to science in which the hangover was inherited by our children. Take the example of housing. The soaring cost of putting a roof over your head is surely one of the most unattractive — and pernicious — characteristics of the past 40 years. And yet for decades the media have reported a rise in house prices as being somehow a cause for celebration and a fall as a bad thing. But the consequence of this obsession — and the borrowing that made it possible — was to destroy the relationship between property prices and wages: housing is now so far beyond the reach of many young people that significant numbers doubt whether they will ever be able to buy decent accommodation.

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