Untouchable Baby Boomers Have Europe in a Choke Hold

“If we’re to build the future of Britain together, we’ll all have to contribute.” These stirring words of national esprit de corps came from UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves last week, as she laid the groundwork for what’s almost certain to be a punishing budget this month.

From my younger millennial vantage point, it’s impossible not to scoff. It’s looking like a racing certainty that working people will in fact suffer most of the pain, perhaps through an income tax hike. Last time it was employers who were whacked with Reeves’ bill to fund her Labour government’s spending. Largely absent again from this latest round of patriotic digging into your own pocket? Older people, probably.