It took Margaret Thatcher several years to disenfranchise an entire generation - the current coalition has achieved it in just a few months.
First we had students protesting the rise in tuition fees. Today schoolchildren are up in arms about the proposed cuts for funding school sports.
Every week the group railing against the Con-Dems gets younger. What next? Toddlers objecting to the loss of nursery school vouchers?
Or maybe embryos protesting the planned closures of birthing units such as the one at my local hospital in Petersfield?
I'm 47, so it will be some time before the protests go full circle and the Government upsets my generation. But rest assured, once they start putting up car-parking charges at National Trust properties and increasing the tax on Horlicks I shall be out there manning the barricades.
Only up until about 9pm you understand. I can't stay out too late.
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