When something bad is done to you you have to fight against it. So I say well done and Good Luck to the students, sixth formers and others taking part in the demonstration today against the impending iniquitous tuition fees at English universities.
We already know, now, that applicant numbers have dropped by nine per cent in the case of sixth formers looking to enter university in 2012, and by a whopping 24 per cent in the case of would be mature students looking to retrain. It doesn't take much imagination to understand that a possible fifty thousand pound debt (tuition and living costs) if you have no financial backing - is an unbearable thought for many. Plus, there'll be compound interest rolling up, to add to the toxic mix.
And Rubber Boy Cameron's blandishments that there'll be nothing to pay until an ex student's wages reach twenty one thousand pounds - are these not just words? What is to stop him from failing to uprate thetwenty one thousand figure - meaning that, in the future, increasingly impecunious ex-students would find themselves dragged into the mire of unaffordable debt with no redress?
CamClegg, it seems, is happy for people of his own class and background to benefit from a good higher education, but less than keen on opportunity for all. Democracy, he seems to think, is fine - as long as the people don't USE their voice to protest against unjust government.
On Radio Four this morning Cameron said the possible use of rubber bullets by the police against our children at the demonstration today, was a matter for the police, not the government!
Cameron: rubber bullets, rubber man, rubber conscience.
Good luck to our students. i hope you all keep safe and I truly hope and believe that equitable higher education in England will come back when this givernment is nothing but a bad memory.