Not much of ‘quake’ here

So ‘youthquake’ has been named 2017’s word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries and basically I am at a loss as to see why it has been so popular.

I have seen very little, indeed, no evidence of any youth-quakes happening as opposed to the youth-quakes that occurred in the late 80s, early 90s.

Then the youth of the day, mainly punks, rose up against Mrs Thatcher’s abhorrent poll tax on the poor and defeated the government to force it to withdraw the poll tax, which was a costly mistake that led Mrs Thatcher to lose her job basically, ending up with the Tory government losing at the next election.

Fast forward to the Tory government in the next century and we have a certain Mr Cameron in charge of our, once again Tory government, now under the guise of austerity, with thanks to the government bailing out the banks instead of jailing them like the Iceland government.

He decided to reinstate the poll tax under the guise of the name council tax, once again the poor have to pay, and on top of it he introduces the reviled bedroom tax or to give it its delightful legitimate name the “under occupancy tax”.

Whatever its name it is once again hitting the poor even more.

Moreover I ask, on social media what are today’s youth doing to make the Government remove these two hated taxes?

They are producing online petitions to force parliament to talk about it in the House of Commons, what a youthquake!

Now call me pedantic but a youthquake is something large that causes massive ripples in the fabric of life not minor ripples that are extremely difficult to detect.

Youthquake? More like youth calm … Alan ‘The Quill’ Vincent