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A report by German magazine Bild says 92% of left-wing activists in Berlin, Germany, live with their parents, while one in three are unemployed.
The magazine’s data was based on 873 political activists, investigated by authorities between 2003 and 2013. Some 84% of those investigated were men, and 73% were aged 18-29.
“A third of them were unemployed, and 92% still live with their parents,” reported the Daily Mail. Your old mate reckons we need to dig out the data on these sort of bludgers in New Zealand; he suggests it would very similar.
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