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Just wanted to congratulate them on achieving sweet FA, no change exactly as you were - well apart from a huge bill for the taxpayer to repair all the damage they did and the policing bill.
Some of the placards were incorrectly spelt FFS
Must be Media Students or similar to be so witless and ineffective.
Glad common sense and the coalition won through though, is a far fairer system than the one Labour introduced.
It's also the day the Liberal Democrats died.
I have been pleased to see that present and future students are not so apathetic about politics and their future that they sit back and do nothing.
This issue is clearly something that angered many and they have every right to protest and make their feelings known to the politicians who come up with these ideas. In a democracy people have the right to protest when they object to something, and for too long politics has seemed irrelevant to too many.
Having said that I certainly don't condone the actions of the minority. As is often the case there are those who have little or no interest in the cause itself and unfortunately, as a result, the issue gets lost among the headlines. Just look at the Daily Mail today - "baying tuition fees mob" attack the royals, "anarchists", "young thugs" are the three headlines about yesterday's events. To the Mail's credit (did I really say that :eek: ) their comment page does give their view of the issues...if anyone cares to read that far.
I was very fortunate not to be saddled with thousands of pounds of debt when I left university, but I have sympathy with those who are and will be in the future and support their right to protest.
I bet the Tories are laughing this morning, they've screwed over future generations and all the headlines are about riots instead.
It was two years into Margaret Thatcher's goverment before people took their opposition to the streets. This government have beaten that achievement by some considerable margin.
Whether the student tuition fee increase is correct or not, there is no excuse for the level of animosity and violence handed out by the students towards police, buildings and unbelievably Prince Charles and Camilla! Since when are they anything to do with this situation - why attack them? Their can be only two reasons for this:
1) The students protesting are so stupid to attack Prince Charles that aren't clever enough to go university anyway, so they may as well save all their money completely.
2) A vast majority of the protestors having nothing better to do and are simply causing uproar for the sake of it, having a convenient excuse to act like yobs and idiots. Are they all even students? Surely they should be in lectures and seminars during the week?
I went to university and really enjoyed it, three good years of my life 2003-2006 and set me up for life.
I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
The protest was hijacked by people who simply wanted to riot.
I was annoyed last night when our Sky+ box reset itself, I was wanting to see some heads getting cracked :(
I'm annoyed by the media coverage actually, getting its quick fix of riots and outrage. Just this moment when searching for an article about the actual vote I had to dig on the BBC News website just to find it.
Too much of the protests were hijacked by people probably too stupid to make it into university in the first place. Of course they probably knew they were going to lose the battle against the coalition, so most likely just 'rioted' for the hell of it.
It's a shame really, as it just feels like the government is shifting national debt to the younger generation by cutting funding to unis and rising the fees. It doesn't directly affect me, but that doesn't take away the strength of feeling amongst me and many others in the university.
It's exactly what they are doing. Instead of education being funded by the state for the good of the country as a whole, they are making those who receive it pay. I thought as much would happen when tuition fees were brought in, in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndySpeed
The next thing will be asking for a contribution towards A-Levels...
In my opinion, too many people think they HAVE to go to University to be successful in life, which isn't true.