Elderly people will get upset over fairly minor tweaks to the pension system (lower annual pension raises, a gradual pension age increase that will not actually touch anyone who already is of pension age, pensions being paid out a week later than usual), but not only not give a damn about the welfare system, university fees, students grants and a dozen other social issues to the point of saying into your face that “those people should just work like we did.” Whereas the welfare organisations, student demonstrations, etc… will often include a call for higher pensions as a matter of course among their demands. Of course, you get young people rallying against pensioners sucking the system dry(there are always arseholes), but generally more young people are in favour of pension raises than elderly people in favour of social programs benefiting the young.

Question of the day: Fluent in English and German, had four years each of Latin and Spanish at school, but am rusty in both. I know enough French and Italian for holiday purposes. I can understand Dutch fairly well and read newspaper articles and comics in Dutch (but no fiction or serious non-fiction) and get by in day to day situations, but more complex interactions are beyond me. I can understand Lower German (which is a separate language) just fine, but I cannot speak it.