All over the country students have been protesting against the rising tuition fee's and I myself have been among them trying not to get squashed by the multitudinous crowd. The tripling of fee's is understandably rattling a lot of peoples cages.
I am a lucky one, the fee hikes come in after I have finished my degree, but it is doomed to screw over many people I know and love. My boyfriend will have to pay out the ear to finish his four year degree, his little brother Ed who is incredibly intelligent has little chance of being able to afford Uni at all! How is this fair? Our Government is literally auctioning off the present at the expense of the future. It's devaluing our degree's and means thousands of people will not be able to follow their dreams.
I for one am nearly always the pessimist (much to Alex's disdain) so I was pretty sure the government was going to screw us over any which way. But the betrayal of the liberal Democrats really hit home.
My mother has supported my local candidate back in somerset for years a Mr David Laws a man I was lucky enough to meet last summer, even if I was in my dressing gown. I myself voted lib Dem and kept him in the local seat in the hope that he was one of the good guys who would uphold the Lib Dem promises.
To my horror though this afternoon I find he voted for the fee's hike. he's lost a voter next local election that's for sure! If I wasn't disillusioned with the government before I definitely am now!
It makes you wonder what the country is going to be like in 30 years or so the degree is so expensive no one has one except in scotland and ireland who get subsadised by our taxes.
Will we survive with no doctors, nurses, engineers, scientists? Will my baby brother who is only 8 months old and possibly one of the cutest things on the planet be able to go to uni?
All I can say is maybe Guy Faulks had the right idea in blowing up parliament.
I am a lucky one, the fee hikes come in after I have finished my degree, but it is doomed to screw over many people I know and love. My boyfriend will have to pay out the ear to finish his four year degree, his little brother Ed who is incredibly intelligent has little chance of being able to afford Uni at all! How is this fair? Our Government is literally auctioning off the present at the expense of the future. It's devaluing our degree's and means thousands of people will not be able to follow their dreams.
I for one am nearly always the pessimist (much to Alex's disdain) so I was pretty sure the government was going to screw us over any which way. But the betrayal of the liberal Democrats really hit home.
My mother has supported my local candidate back in somerset for years a Mr David Laws a man I was lucky enough to meet last summer, even if I was in my dressing gown. I myself voted lib Dem and kept him in the local seat in the hope that he was one of the good guys who would uphold the Lib Dem promises.
To my horror though this afternoon I find he voted for the fee's hike. he's lost a voter next local election that's for sure! If I wasn't disillusioned with the government before I definitely am now!
It makes you wonder what the country is going to be like in 30 years or so the degree is so expensive no one has one except in scotland and ireland who get subsadised by our taxes.
Will we survive with no doctors, nurses, engineers, scientists? Will my baby brother who is only 8 months old and possibly one of the cutest things on the planet be able to go to uni?
All I can say is maybe Guy Faulks had the right idea in blowing up parliament.
Build the bonfire
Build the bonfire
Put the Tories on the top!
Put the Lib Dems in the middle
And burn the bloody lot!
Wow. seriously passionate. Generally speaking, people of conservative nature (not just in politics) have a tendency to want good things to remain for a few. They see it as a way of maintaining quality and value. So there you go.
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