The Bus Pass is Nigh

I was born in the year the 1948 National Assistance Act finally saw the abolition of the Poor Law. I shared my infancy with the National Health Service and was probably inculcated into left of centre political thought by some secret ingredient in National Dried Milk, the only baby food I could digest without vomiting.

In terms of politics I am much the same now but sadly there seems to be precious little left of the ideology from those heady years of our burgeoning Welfare State.

As for politics today, there is a sense that things are being done to us rather than for us, something we Boomers should start to take seriously. Joan Bakewell recently wrote in The Independent, "I've seen the future, and it belongs to the old." As usual there is food for thought in her comments, we ought to be prepared to ensure our futures are secured on our terms.