The students are revolting

[Alf W]

Go for it kids!

How refreshing. Civil disobedience under the Tories again. We'll have the firemen on strike next under these numpties.

I'm feeling 20 years younger already today.

"Maggie, Maggie, Maggie. Out! Out! Out!"

[AtW]

Some strikes would be just enough to tip economy back into recession, cause run on pound - I guess it's the perfect scenario for the strikers as they'd inevitably blame it all on the current Govt conveniently ignoring all those debts and unfunded promises caused by Labour.

[SupremeSpod]

Some strikes would be just enough to tip economy back into recession, cause run on pound - I guess it's the perfect scenario for the strikers as they'd inevitably blame it all on the current Govt conveniently ignoring all those debts and unfunded promises caused by Labour.

Oh FFS, there you go, bringing reality into the topic. You know Alf wears blinkers where the Tories are concerned.

[gingerjedi]

Students used to protest (rightly or wrongly) against torture or nuclear weapons, whale hunting etc.

Now it takes something that effects them to get all fired up, feck 'em.

[Mich the Tester]

Looking back on my student days, I was actually quite revolting too.

[StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff]

Students used to protest (rightly or wrongly) against torture or nuclear weapons, whale hunting etc.

Now it takes something that effects them to get all fired up, feck 'em.

That's hardly fair. Can I assume that like myself you benefitted from free higher education? Investing in the future via funding higher education with public money is surely one of the best uses of tax payer money? The government could have chosen to increase funding for higher education, but instead chose to increase spending on security etc 'to stop the terrorists'.

[Mich the Tester]

That's hardly fair. Can I assume that like myself you benefitted from free higher education? Investing in the future via funding higher education with public money is surely one of the best uses of tax payer money? The government could have chosen to increase funding for higher education, but instead chose to increase spending on security etc 'to stop the terrorists'.

Yep, so did I. I studied geography, which gave me taxpayer funded field trips to such beautiful places as the Antrim coast, Sorrento and Porto.

I wouldn't want to deny that to young people now, and I'm not going to pretend that 'in my day we had to work hard for our qualifications'. We didn't. We were pissed a lot of the time, often on a beach.

[Alf W]

Again it's a case of out of touch millionaire Tory Cabinet ministers assuming that the "norm" is that Daddy pays for your University education and that you can therefore buy your way in to your University of choice.

Another sad example of everything in life being reduced down to the level of economic units. The reason for India's strength in the IT area is because they have invested heavily in it.

[StopTheEarthIwantToGetOff]

Again it's a case of out of touch millionaire Tory Cabinet ministers assuming that the "norm" is that Daddy pays for your University education and that you can therefore buy your way in to your University of choice.

Another sad example of everything in life being reduced down to the level of economic units. The reason for India's strength in the IT area is because they have invested heavily in it.

Well said sir!

[SupremeSpod]

Again it's a case of out of touch millionaire Tory Cabinet ministers assuming that the "norm" is that Daddy pays for your University education and that you can therefore buy your way in to your University of choice.

Another sad example of everything in life being reduced down to the level of economic units.

The reason for India's strength in the IT area is because they have cheated in their exams and reduced their degrees to nothing more than fit to wipe your arse with. That and the fact that they're cheap.


A false economy.