Could I pass on the apologies of my five baby-boomer siblings to Phillip Inman (Can a nation in crisis rely on the baby boomer generation to step up? I think the UK is about to find out, 21 August)? They would downsize but can’t, because the local authority hasn’t asked them to (they all live in council houses).
They would give up the several luxury holidays a year but don’t have any to give up (unless a week in a caravan at the seaside counts?). They would give up their expensive pensions, but they only have the state pension and, even with the triple lock, it isn’t generous enough for any of it to be given up. That’s the price you pay for being part of the vast majority born into the wrong class in the 1950s and 60s and having to leave school at 15 or 16.
