The benefits of ‘boomerang kids’ are many, Lord Mandelson

“Peter Mandelson, pamphleteering under the auspices of the DBIS, thinks parents should be more forceful about getting their children to leave home, and not make things too comfortable for children returning after they graduate. The memo’s been prompted by last month’s startling revelation that lots of graduates + fewer graduate jobs = lots of unemployed graduates. We all feel for the parents benighted by caring for ever larger children but gosh, what a lot of rubbish these government people can talk …” (more)

[Ed Cumming, Daily Telegraph, 30 December]

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