I have to agree with the author of your letter on today’s younger generation.

We worked nine-hour shifts daily, and some were on shifts or even permanent night shifts. 

Our standard annual holiday was only two weeks, not today’s four- to six-week holidays.

We only got two days at Christmas and one day at New Year, not like today’s long 10-day break.

My generation appreciated the sacrifices our parents made during the war when things were hard.

Food was rationed, sweets were non-existent, and ordinary working families did not have a car.

You either walked to work or took a bus or tramcar.

There is nothing wrong with improving living conditions.

My parents worked hard to provide me with a better education and an opportunity to have a better life than they had, and so we follow their example.

There is definitely a feeling among the younger generation that everything should be supplied free.

Unfortunately, the old British Empire is long gone, and the Commonwealth also. Britain is now a poor, third-world-rated country, and we have to accept that.

Ian Ross
Southampton