"The generation settled happily into two camps on the matter. One held that the post-Beveridge 'nanny state' had stifled initiative and entrepreneurship and that the Attlee settlement was a disaster. The other held that Attlee had not gone far enough and had unforgivably blown the chance to create the socialist nirvana: the Attlee settlement was a disaster. Beveridge, they pointed out sniffily, was a Liberal.
"What united the baby boomers was that almost none of them learned to value the extraordinary legacy they had. None of them fought to protect it, and today most of them sneer at it, either from the left or from the right."
Francis Beckett in New Statesman ponders the political consequence of British baby boomers.
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