Crisis in healthcare should not be blamed on the baby boomers

I read with interest the letter “Lib Dems have gone quiet” by Brian Smith on February 14.

I was born in 1947, three years before Brian Smith.

My generation has been referred to as the Second World War baby boom.

A huge generation born within a few years after the war, also referred to as a demographic time bomb for the future requirement of state support.

Perhaps the bomb has exploded during the current winter with the exceptional demand on the NHS.

Of course it is not just the fault of my generation; there has been much human breeding since to increase the population.

Often on the telly a journalist has told us we are living longer: difficult for me to believe having survived people I have known younger than my current age and mostly male.

I have concluded there are more people living to 100 because there are more people.

Medical advances since I was born have contributed; but some of the medical success has been negated by people living an unhealthy life style.

Politicians cannot be expected to determine a plan to provide future support for the increasing population.

The world human population is also increasing.

However my generation being huge, also has a lot of voting power. So NHS ambulance queues and patients on trolleys waiting in the hospital corridors is unlikely to be a vote winner at the next election; assuming the voters will not be distracted by such issues as BREXIT.

Alan Cantrill