A generation of young thinkers and campaigners are calling for a new post-Thatcherite political consensus, in a new book to be publicly launched this Thursday 23rd February.<\/p>\n
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The book, entitled Re<\/em><\/strong>generation<\/em>, makes the case for an alternative politics that speaks to the concerns of today\u2019s disenfranchised youth. Those born since 1979, it argues, face mounting unemployment and sky-high property prices, and are being saddled with an appalling legacy of financial mismanagement, climate change, and spiralling inequality.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s time for our generation to write its own history,\u201d states one of the book\u2019s co-editors, Guy Shrubsole. \u201cWe have been short-changed by the politics of our parents\u2019 generation – thirty years of failed ideas that have left us facing staggering inequality and an imperilled planet. But we\u2019re not just a \u2018lost generation\u2019. It\u2019s in our hands to regenerate this country\u2019s politics, move beyond Thatcherism and create a better future.\u201d<\/p>\n Generously sponsored by the Intergenerational Foundation<\/a> and the Lipman Miliband Trust<\/a>, and published by Lawrence & Wishart<\/a>, Re<\/em><\/strong>generation<\/em> has been written by 31 young contributors, who are \u2013 with one or two exceptions \u2013 members of the generation born since 1979, and comprise a mix of students, third sector workers, social entrepreneurs, medics, journalists, and university lecturers.<\/p>\n The book calls for more co-operative forms of ownership, greater social equality, and an alternative economics that prioritises wellbeing over wealth and puts environmental sustainability at its heart. Amongst the authors\u2019 specific proposals are for the Government to tackle youth unemployment through a programme of green jobs; roll out participatory budgeting for local communities; bring down energy bills by ending the oligopoly of the Big Six utilities; and establish an Ombudsperson for Future Generations.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ideas in this book represent a new, emerging political consensus,\u201d says co-editor Clare Coatman. \u201cRe<\/em><\/strong>generation<\/em> speaks to a generation disillusioned by the way that politics has been conducted in Britain over the past thirty years, and the apparent breakdown of the social contract between generations. But its authors also share a desire to come up with better alternatives; not just to say no <\/em>to the old ways of things, but emphatically yes <\/em>to new solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A generation of young thinkers and campaigners are calling for a new post-Thatcherite political consensus, in a new book to be publicly launched this Thursday 23rd February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sf.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}