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On a similar issue, aren't the young generation today (not sure what that means?) supposed to be the first generation in decades that will be worse off than their parents?

They've certainly had property ownership pushed beyond a vast majority of them unless they're able to get a sponsoring relative to assist. They most definitely have to pay for a higher educcation, and so far as we can tell the significant area(s) of job growth have come in self-employment and low paid, low skilled, zero hours tertiary sectors (as well as commission based telesales pesterers)

It strikes me that we're re-entering the old Reaganist idea of trickle down again which never did work. It would be more accurate to think of it as 'trickle so far' and then dry up (or trickle off shore)

It's not external criticism that I get vexed about incidentally, but rather inconsistent and selective criticism (something you haven't done). I don't mind anyone criticising Cameron over Libya as I think he's behaved reckelessly irresponsibly, but then I think their are other culprits too and we need reminding of the immoral hand that the French had in this fiasco as well. Same with immigration. Let's not pretend that the UK is singularly in some great immigrant hating minority. Huge swathes of the French population vote for the National Front, and I doubt that there's any real appetite in Ireland to take in thousands of refugees from Nigeria, Libya, or Syria either. I think there's some quite interesting contradictions in the whole thing once you dig into the political contamination, but I can't be bothered with it (albeit it's probably more interesting than trying to SEO a bloody website)