The younger generation live so cleanly I can barely relate. They should be making sketchy life decisions, not running 5K and eating kale.

@SunshineGirl Public debt, environmental damage, medical care. How exactly.

I think you’re taking yourself a little too seriously. 😉

@AdmiralPrune Subsidising the pub industry during Covid (and still chucking public resources at a sector that young people are least likely to use) - prioritising private over public transport - supporting the unhealthy lifestyle choices of the older generation through socialised healthcare.

Each generation ends up footing the bill for the previous generation's excesses. Perhaps today's young people just wamt to break the cycle 🙂

@SunshineGirl Maybe that’s why you’re all so alone and sad and anxious. You’ve lost the ability to socialise. Some are too self absorbed even to procreate. You need safe spaces, trigger warnings and support lines.

You have more connectivity than ever in human history, and yet you’re lonely. You have the highest standard of living, the people before you could only dream of, and yet you’re crippled with anxiety. You need dating apps because apparently striking up a convo with a stranger is weird and inappropriate to you.

@AdmiralPrune You and her are the same gen..

Quite possible you're only 1 yr apart 🤣🤣🤣

@SunshineGirl Recent research has indicated that previous claims of GenZ drinking less alcohol than previous cohorts are inaccurate. As the government are now discovering, by putting such a huge tax burden on the Hospitality sector has resulted in "starter jobs" for young people disappearing - unviable economically for employers.

@ArtieKat Since 2020 the hospitality sector has enjoyed a VAT holiday and a substantial discount in business rates that was not available to any other operator on the high street (the "tax burden" described is largely due to the gradual rolling back of this discount). I do not agree with National Insurance full stop, let alone the chancellor's decision to increase it, but the current travails of the pub industry are not due solely to tax as their advocates would have us believe. Inflation, high energy costs, and changing consumer habits are at least as important as tax. When public money is thrown at the industry it mainly ends up.in the share dividends of Wetherspoons, Greene King, Marstons, et al, who collectively have done more to screw over the independent landlord than any recent government. It is not clear to me why the taxpayer has to subsidise low paid employment. Let the market decide and let pubs stand on their own feet . . regular drinking in traditional pubs is not a priority among many younger people, the same folk who will have to foot the bill for this largesse in the long term.

@SunshineGirl I'm not going to argue with you

@ArtieKat You are perfectly entitled to express your views as I have done. I was mystified why in 2020 there was more political will to re-open pubs than re-open schools. I am mystified in 2026 why politicians of all colours are in thrall to a powerful lobbying group.