Owen Jones Destroys Caller Attacking Young People
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 20 August 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
When a caller rang in to denounce young people for not working hard enough - and not owning homes because they demanded fitted carpets - he got a piece of my mind.
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| 0:00.0 | I bring this up because I was on the Jeremy Vine show this week and a caller rang in who had |
| 0:06.8 | quite a lot to say. Let's just hear what he had to say and I just want to talk about my response. |
| 0:12.3 | A lot of people like to go after young people and go on about how easy they have it. |
| 0:17.0 | Young people have been screwed over for ages. Their living standards have been stagnating and |
| 0:20.7 | falling and like previous generations who had a better lot of life than their parents. |
| 0:25.2 | They're often driven into insecure works where they have to work all ridiculous hours |
| 0:30.0 | just to live. I'm talking about Deliveroo and talking about Uber and talking about all these |
| 0:34.1 | precarious jobs where people work massive hours and often get very little pay. They don't have the |
| 0:39.6 | pensions of your generations. They don't have the security of jobs of your generation either. |
| 0:45.2 | At the same time they're often saddled with debt because they went to university which has become |
| 0:49.0 | a precondition in this country to getting many jobs. Their lives have become very, very hard. |
| 0:53.7 | They're working very hard but their wages are falling and have been falling along this piece. |
| 0:59.2 | Let's let Tony respond. Tony, would you make up what Owen's just said? |
| 1:02.7 | Hold on, when we bought our home, we saved the wife and myself, we saved, we put deposit down, |
| 1:10.9 | we went into a house with nothing. All that it got was a cooker and a sink and a fireplace. |
| 1:19.2 | Nowadays when they want to buy a house, they want it fully carpeted, fitted kitchens, fitted |
| 1:26.0 | bedrooms and they want to fall by fall on the drive. Now, I live opposite a children's nursery |
| 1:33.3 | and I see parents turn up here at eight o'clock in the morning and they've got Mercedes, BMW's |
| 1:41.3 | expensive cars. So, Tony, I'm sorry. Home ownership has collapsed amongst younger people in this |
| 1:46.7 | country. Not because people have high expectations about having renovated properties. |
| 1:51.5 | It's because house prices have risen astronomically and the ratio between the average wage in this |
| 1:57.6 | country and house prices has massively gone up. So, it's just not possible to afford it. And I'm |
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