Vicky Spratt
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And I would have expected Zach Polanski actually to have had a much higher favorability rating than he does, given all of the buzz around him and all the social media.
So it's quite interesting that Andy Burnham came above Zach Polanski, I think.
So making this series for you guys, one of the things we did was poll the Restors Politics audience.
12,000 responses, 6,000 of them were members of this generation that we're talking about.
And they're so...
hopeful, but disillusioned at the same time.
And I think what they've seen growing up, what they told us is we see people promise change and then the change doesn't come.
We see people say they're going to overhaul the system and the system stays the same.
I still can't afford a house.
I did everything right.
I did a degree and I'm working in Costa and living with my parents and thinking about the tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt that I've got.
And there was one
reader who wrote in and said, the only people that really seem to speak to me are Zach Polanski and Gary's economics.
Everybody else is just fighting amongst themselves and saying the same thing.
And I think they feel really let down by politicians and like they've not been listened to.
And now that these problems they face, the fact that jobs aren't paying them enough to move out of their parents' houses or buy houses of their own,
Absolutely.
And this idea that the baby boomer generation are the luckiest generation in history.
When you look at the statistics and you look at what was possible for baby boomers when they were younger versus what's possible now,
moving out, starting a family of your own, buying a house, getting a job, moving up the career ladder, moving up the housing ladder.