We the older working age need to show solidarity with all of our generation who face discrimination and exclusion on the basis of age and to ensure a fair and just allocation of resources for all ages and the elimination of poverty. This to be coupled with a commitment to fair taxation so that the rich - as individuals and corporations- pay their fair share of income and wealth tax.
There are 3.5 million older working age (50- 65+) who are out of work, millions of us who are in or face poverty, including over 1 million women carers in poverty as a result of sacrificing wages, National Insurance contributions and thus pension entitlements to look after their parents, children and grandchildren.
We are also the ones that are suffering from the privatisation of utilities, the creeping privatisation and cuts to the NHS and the austerity cuts to such public services as social and health care, library and community / health centre closures.
our generation was successful in the 60s and 70s fighting for social and economic justice and raising the banner of youthful change - we should now support the new generation of youth fighting for social and economic fairness. We benefitted from high levels of wages compared to the allocation of profits and senior managers / directors, which is why we had an ongoing economic boom and we all gained. We should surely not forget this and join the struggle to maintain workers and trade union rights and an end to austerity paid for through fair taxation and the redistribution of wealth from the 1% to the rest of us , especially those at the n bottom.
This can be done in many ways bit one is to vote for parties and candidates supporting these principles - such as the Greens and the SNP in Scotland, and certainly not the Tories, Lib Dems or YUKIP
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