I'm sorry to have to "take the other side" but take a look at it from their point of view!
Most of us were at one point in our lives, a student, whether as colin says from day release at work, or as a full time student. Your country needed you to work through education so that you could bring those skills to a place that was emerging and forming its way after a disastrous world war.Quite a few of your parents would have either fought their way through that war for a better world for us to live in.
Could you have imagined their response at the time had they been loaded with a debt where they had to pay before they even thought of saddling them selves with a mortgage on a family home, it would have been like a kick in the teeth to those people.
Likewise, the student of today, are being forced to take education because there is a hell of a fight on in this country....a fight for the meager jobs front and what jobs there are.......jobs that have been lost in the manufacturing business because of the successive cock ups of successive govenments......no education......no job..........and for this they are yet again kicked in the teath by a government that has told lies to get into power and as such is "reaping as it has sown".
The student "minority" in this country is generically a peacefull lot........the last time students marched like this was way back in 1973 when Margaret thatcher was education secretary.
Tjhe last time we had civil unrest on this scale was in the late 80's early 90's when people went on marches for the "pole tax"....who was in power....the Tory's who wouldn't listen to the public.....before that came the miners strikes and civil unrest, and before that the riots in Brixton and Toxteth because of problems in the poorer parts of our cities.........
and who was in power at all these times of civil unrest........you have it......the tories........
Make no bones about it.......there will be mass disruption and civil unrest in this country over this winter, and we can't keep blaming students, miners or any other member of the public if they get hot under the collar and demonstrate in the way that they have........something is a catylist every time for this behaviour, and I know who I fairly and squarely oput the blame on.........and sadly I was one of the idiots that voted for them.......and it wasn't who was going to sit on the next student's union.
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