Regardless of who our next Prime Minister is, Thursday’s election will mark the moment when leadership of the country passed from the Baby Boom Generation to Generation Jones. GenJones, which is the heretofore “lost” generation between the Boomers and Xers, will constitute the largest generational segment in the new Parliament, as many Boomer MPs are replaced by Jonesers. It looks like significant media attention has accompanied this generational transition in numerous countries. If GenJoneser Cameron becomes PM, I wonder if we will see the kind of GenJones media buzz that happened when GenJonesers Obama, Sarkozy, and Merkel took over power from their Boomer predecessors.
I quite enjoyed this piece about GenJones in the Indy last week which discusses Cameron and Clegg’s identities as GenJonesers:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/jonathan-pontell-cleggs-rise-is-the-sound-of-generation-jones-clearing-its-throat-1961191.html
And I thought there was a pretty decent overview about GenJones in the UK here:
And I laughed clip by Jonathan Ross about Generation Jones:
