The so called baby boomers hey? Now then I have heard this a lot by the younger generation and this really is off topic but people that say that don't know what they are talking about. Rationing was still on until about 1955 ten years AFTER the war ended. People did live in poverty and had no clothes on their back. I had to put cardboard in my shoes when holes appeared. There was no housing benefit and everyone was expected to pay the rent as my Mother did with 12 kids. There was no social security or pension credits and help for child minding and every one I knew didn't have a car and if they did they were rusty old bangers. My first mortgage was a mile stone around my neck too with half my pay going on it and the rates etc. You rarely saw people at the Doctors as people only went when they were really ill, unlike today. Don't get me started on household appliances etc. It was a bloody hard life and only got better in our later years and now we have a few quid in the bank and little interest being paid and all I am amazed at the low rates now and youngish people all buying new detached houses. Along with their new car in the drive and wide screen TV's.
No mate it the generation NOW that have never had it so good and btw, many fathers and husbands and young men didn't come home as they were killed in the war.
Its the politicians today that make you pay for university education when in my day very few went there and now its ten a penny and just to add that watching CAFC back then was great and dire as it is now but it cost next to nothing and so how many footballers in THIS day and age can compare with the greats of yesteryear that were on the maximum wage of 20 quid a week like Frank Blunstone an ex Alex player who played for England and Chelsea and had to work at a newsagents each morning before going for training...Yep, they never had it so good did they!