Wrong target. Look to your Left.

Some sociologists have emitted the British Social Attitudes 27th Annual Report. At the Speccie, Pete Hoskin delineates his vision of intergenerational conflict based on its findings.

I weep for the demise of conservative thinking at the Spectator and its supine collapse in the face of the Gramscian revolution. Do get a grip, Nelson, or do you accept that we are all Socialists now? Perchance even you, soi disant Thatcherite, are falling for the charms of Sweden's version of Socialism?

Time and again, Spectator writers (with the shining exception of the increasingly invisible Theodore Dalrymple) accept not only the diagnosis but also the nostrums of Socialism while paying lip service to the philosophies which deny its veracity and quite rightly accuse it of inhumanity.

But back to the present insult. At CoffeeHouse, I commented thusly:

Don't you dare blame baby-boomer me - I voted Tory. It is not the modest self-interest of the (majority) earning classes, now ageing, which put us where we are. Every one of these complaints can be laid at Labour's door and those of their Fabian (and worse) cheerleaders and brainwashers in Labour-funded think-tanks and the 'education' establishment - and their USA equivalents. And of course ruthless, cynical Socialists in government who ALWAYS create bubbles and massive debt spirals (under a ‘caring/fairness’ smokescreen) to make it impossible for their political enemies to govern by other philosophies, without bloodshed. The evidence is on our streets right now, exactly as predicted. It's Labour and its friends who did and still do the damage. Then they produce reports like this which cast the blame on their political enemies: the producing/earning/saving/self-supporting classes who typically vote against them and will not bend the knee. Soviet methods, tried and trusted.

Age/generation has Rockall to do with the state the young are in. And they're *still* Labour leaning. A 40 per cent Labour vote? Incredible – until you remember the size of Labour’s client vote, bought by taxing productive but politically naïve and narcoleptic citizens. Gramsci was right. Unseen revolution by stealth through the key institutions is extremely effective. So naff off with blaming my 'generation'. You're making me angry. The blame for the disaster of our infantilised and impoverished society belongs wholly to Socialism and its evil philosophers.