A research charity fighting for a fairer deal for younger and future generations across all areas of policy. Bluesky: intergenerational.bsky.socia…
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6 Jun 2025
The shocking gap in government spending on a child versus an older person is revealed in our latest report:
Between 2004-05 and 2023-24, real per-person government spending on pensioners increased by 55%, compared to just 20% for children #spendingreview
if.org.uk/research-posts/a-g…
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Took >6 years to get to this point. Now it's apparently all cancelled. Luckily there's no rush: It's not like we have a housing crisis, or that Cambridge's house price to salary ratio is one of the highest in the country, or that the UK needs growth.
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Not nearly enough x.com/DanNeidle/status/19552…
12 Aug 2025
Just a reminder that an individual's national insurance payments do not fund their State pension.
The average person's national insurance payments cover about half the cost of their state pension:
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Look at the board of any London headquartered FTSE company
Most will have board members aged over 60
Insane that they can travel to a board meeting in London for free, while the youngster serving their coffee has to pay to get there.
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15 Aug 2025
"On intergenerational fairness grounds, the mayor of London must stop this free travel bung to workers below state pension age.”
Over-60s free travel 'costs £84m in lost revenue' bbc.com/news/articles/c79l77…
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14 Aug 2025
60 Oyster card could be reviewed after figures show it cost TfL more than three times its funding gap, FOI reveals - Asian Standard Newspaper asianstandard.co.uk/60-oyste…
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14 Aug 2025
Well worth following this thread @RepPlanningGrp
14 Aug 2025
Good afternoon! The crucial planning meeting to decide whether Oxford United can build a new stadium at the Triangle, outside Kidlington, is just getting underway. It’s at Cherwell District Council’s Banbury office and veteran councillor Barry Wood is chairing.
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
14 Aug 2025
I am so serious when I say that the 32% of people that oppose free bus travel for under 22 year olds should be identified and sent to the moon
An island of people addicted to misery that only wants to inflict further misery on the younger generation
Would you support or oppose free bus travel for under‑22 year olds?
Support: 57%
Oppose: 32%
Net support by age
18-24: 67
25-49: 33
50-64: 10
65 : -2
Results link in following tweet
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
14 Aug 2025
So…the group that GETS FREE BUS TRAVEL, opposes it for young people who have significantly less money and uses public transport more frequently.
The privilege and entitlement of the Boomer generation never ceases to amaze me.
Would you support or oppose free bus travel for under‑22 year olds?
Support: 57%
Oppose: 32%
Net support by age
18-24: 67
25-49: 33
50-64: 10
65 : -2
Results link in following tweet
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
14 Aug 2025
Under 22’s literally screwed up two years of their lives so older people could LIVE. This is how they get treated. We really need to strip ungrateful boomers of their unearned entitlements so they stop leeching off everyone else.
Would you support or oppose free bus travel for under‑22 year olds?
Support: 57%
Oppose: 32%
Net support by age
18-24: 67
25-49: 33
50-64: 10
65 : -2
Results link in following tweet
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14 Aug 2025
Throwing kids under the bus again to feed the vampiric uni sector...Is 40 years of repayment not enough? How about 9% taken from salary every year if young grads manage to earn Nat Min Wage of £25,000? When will governments accept that marketisation of #highed failed?
14 Aug 2025
EXCLUSIVE @theipaper: Ministers are considering changing the law to increase tuition fees in line with inflation each year.
Could be accompanied by more generous maintenance to sugar the pill.
Link in thread below👇
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14 Aug 2025
RT @inter_gen: @drchrisnewton So let’s remove the 60 oyster commuter freebie @BorisJohnson gave to those below state pension age then?
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
14 Aug 2025
perhaps because Senior Citizens did not receive free travel when Gareth was young, they should not receive today.
14 Aug 2025
Perhaps because when we were young we never got free bus travel🤷♂️🤦♀️🤣😡
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
14 Aug 2025
My 17 yr old has an annual bus pass to get to school (7 miles one way). £650 a year! I couldn’t believe it at first. Previous school was similar distance but by train at half the cost.
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
14 Aug 2025
Are we surprised by this point…
Never have an older (boomer) gen tried to shit on the younger ones so much.
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14 Aug 2025
Unsurprisingly the demographic that receives the most free bus travel is also the demographic most likely to oppose it for struggling younger generations
Would you support or oppose free bus travel for under‑22 year olds?
Support: 57%
Oppose: 32%
Net support by age
18-24: 67
25-49: 33
50-64: 10
65 : -2
Results link in following tweet
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Intergenerational Foundation retweeted
14 Aug 2025
Largest opposition comes from the group that has free bus travel. Cruel!
Would you support or oppose free bus travel for under‑22 year olds?
Support: 57%
Oppose: 32%
Net support by age
18-24: 67
25-49: 33
50-64: 10
65 : -2
Results link in following tweet
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14 Aug 2025
Is Britain “beyond repair”? IF researcher, Toby Whelton, questions whether this is truly the case for young people:
if.org.uk/2025/08/14/is-brit…
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14 Aug 2025
“There is a powerful argument for intergenerational fairness in a society where inheritance, especially of property, dictates life chances, dividing ever younger cohorts into landowner and tenant classes.” theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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