Are you middle class?

[BrilloPad]

Not for much longer :-

Middle classes will disappear in next 30 years warns Government adviser - Telegraph

Ideally there would be a social revolution - but has been proved in Southern Europe the proles will put up with any amount of tulip....

[doodab]

the proles will put up with any amount of tulip....

I thought people were taking the election results in France, Italy and Greece, not to mention the UKIP "earthquake", as a sign that they won't?

The trouble with a social revolution at this point is there is no compelling alternative to a slight tweaking of what we already have. So it will be an evolution.

[barrydidit]

The middle classes will die out within 30 years because of rising property prices, which will rob today's children of their dreams, an economist has warned.

It's a sorry state of affairs if kids are dreaming of getting on the property ladder rather than being astronauts or explorers (or even footballers, fashion designers etc)

[mudskipper]

It's a sorry state of affairs if kids are dreaming of getting on the property ladder rather than being astronauts or explorers (or even footballers, fashion designers etc)

I think we never had to dream of getting on the property ladder, we just kind of took it for granted that we would.

[MicrosoftBob]

I was thinking about that over the bank holiday monday, I joined Cadw the Welsh Government's historic environment service and the missus joined the Womens Institute.

We walked down to the village for the bank holiday car boot, had tea, scones and sandwiches in the village hall, followed by a pint in the village pub

Not only were we middle class, we're also getting old

[RedSauce]

There is a lot if pressure and expectation to get on the ladder in the UK whereas in other parts if Western Europe it is quite the norm to rent for the majority of your life, admittedly those countries have greater controls to protect the tenant.

[BrilloPad]

I thought people were taking the election results in France, Italy and Greece, not to mention the UKIP "earthquake", as a sign that they won't?

The trouble with a social revolution at this point is there is no compelling alternative to a slight tweaking of what we already have. So it will be an evolution.

Europe elections prove zilch. If these results were followed up at country elections then it makes no difference to Italy and Greece. As they will still be in the Euro. In France its different - the only thing Le Pen has got right is to leave the Euro immediately.

It's a sorry state of affairs if kids are dreaming of getting on the property ladder rather than being astronauts or explorers (or even footballers, fashion designers etc)

I think its good they want to get property rather than becoming another Jade Goody.

[BrilloPad]

There is a lot if pressure and expectation to get on the ladder in the UK whereas in other parts if Western Europe it is quite the norm to rent for the majority of your life, admittedly those countries have greater controls to protect the tenant.

Only cos the prices keep going up. The should want to own property for stability.

[barrydidit]

I think its good they want to get property rather than becoming another Jade Goody.

Joey Essex was doing a book signing outside clientco yesterday (i'm assuming he got it right by the end) and the place was rammed with pre-teens from 7am. That's where their attention lies, they'd love to be another Jade Goody. I deliberately excluded that from my list however!

Interesting thing about Joey Essex. They (his people) must have made a killing - half term, crappity ghost written hardback biography, thousands of kids. I expect he's doing it all week. You've got to admire the brazen cheek of making millions from a tulip thick waste of oxygen like that. It's capitalism at it's finest.

[RedSauce]

Only cos the prices keep going up. The should want to own property for stability.

I understand that for families, but why do 20-30 year olds feel the need to own their one and two bed flats when they have no intention of being there more than 3 years. In my friends I see a lot of parental pressure to buy "to get on the ladder" and renting being "wasted money".