Young Brits are putting two fingers up to employers

If you won’t give me a job, then I’ll make my own, thank you very much.

That seems to be the attitude of young people in Britain since the financial crisis struck in 2008. As the FT reported yesterday, a third of young participants in recent YouGov research said that they believe they would be self-employed in the future, and around a quarter said they would be within five years.