Rioting in London?

Clearly whats happened is that the students have spent too much time over Halloween watching V for Vendetta in a drug induced state and have awoken from their slumber today thinking that they are actually V :D
 
I'm surprised you all seem to think they allowed the masked men to kick in the window and then get away scot free while attacking/controlling everyone else...

... because people would fight back and defend the scum ruining their message...


haha......... what?
 
I wonder how much of that attack on Millbank Tower was organised. Some of them looked like 16 year olds. They should have been dispersed with water cannon.
 
Biohazard said:
None of the parties were fully truthful about the Cuts.

Half of the present incumbants said they wouldn't increase the fees, so there goes your 'free and democratic election'.

Maybe all of those students voted Lib Dem?

I certainly saw a lot of placards about numpty Clegg.
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Maybe they did all vote Lib Dem, but the rest of the country didn't. The people chose to vote in parties who said they would consider the Brown review. I trust that the voters voted for whoever best represented their views (although I realise that a single party may have appealed on some issues and not appealed on others, but that's how our electoral system works).

Off the BBC website for the election:

Labour: Retain tuition fees for higher education, and consider Lord Browne's forthcoming higher education funding review.

Conservatives : Consider forthcoming findings of Browne Review of higher education funding.

Lib Dem : Scrap university tuition fees over six years.


- So yeah, maybe the Lib Dems were a bit useless on this issue, but its their responsibility to decide which issues to take a stand on, and people who voted for them trusted them to make decisions for them.

There's nothing wrong with campaigning on certain issues, but (some) people shouldn't act so outraged. The British people voted, and this is what they got. [Edit: If politicians lie or don't keep their promises, or if the electoral system doesn't seem fair, then that's a completely separate issue to take up with individual MP's, parties, or in the last case, an issue that could have been solved by voting for someone who wanted a vote on the electoral system, but voters decided not to, and it's their decision.]

Personally, I think aforementioned British people are fools, and I don't want them to do what they're doing to higher education, but hey, that's what living in a democracy is like.
 
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Skyfall said:
From what I read Universities that do not meet certain criteria for improving learning and access to learning will not be able to charge higher fees. Therefore motivating better learning opportunities for everyone.
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'Improved access' is basically code for free entrance to those from the 'poorest background', and does nothing to improve learning. This will almost certainly be extremely easy to fulfil as with criteria for many other 'widening access' stipulation governments have made.

Improved Learning is unfortunately difficult and expensive to quantify and assess. No tangible benchmarks have been proposed, and with the emphasis being placed on Access in Government rhetoric this requirement will probably be quietly dropped.

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I'm pleased that this years' regularly scheduled riot had a better ratio of protester to photographer, hence not appearing quite as farcical as the G20 one last year. ;)
 
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Just makes it all the more disgusting the way the gardai here treated our peaceful student protest. Nothing was damaged, nothing was set on fire yet the students here that were just protesting on the street still got trampled with horses and baton charged by riot police.

The students in London are burning and ruining the place doing their cause absolutely no good and the police are just standing there taking it.
 
GreatAuk said:
Maybe they did all vote Lib Dem, but the rest of the country didn't. The people chose to vote in parties who said they would consider the Brown review. I trust that the voters voted for whoever best represented their views (although I realise that a single party may have appealed on some issues and not appealed on others, but that's how our electoral system works).

Off the BBC website for the election:

Labour: Retain tuition fees for higher education, and consider Lord Browne's forthcoming higher education funding review.

Conservatives : Consider forthcoming findings of Browne Review of higher education funding.

Lib Dem : Scrap university tuition fees over six years.


- So yeah, maybe the Lib Dems were a bit useless on this issue, but its their responsibility to decide which issues to take a stand on, and people who voted for them trusted them to make decisions for them.

There's nothing wrong with campaigning on certain issues, but (some) people shouldn't act so outraged. The British people voted, and this is what they got.

Personally, I think aforementioned British people are fools, and I don't want them to do what they're doing to higher education, but hey, that's what living in a democracy is like.
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Is the problem.

Students aren't thick like most want to portray here.

They will feel they were lied too and betrayed (those who voted lib).
 
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These guys look like absolute ****jockeys.

'No no, dont take my money away I want to buy the latest fashion items every week.'

Its safe to say Britain doesnt need half of the graduates graduating with degrees, in the years they spent getting a lot of them they could have done something more productive.

There was a busload from my uni that went (strathclyde) but I would bet my last time not many (if any) engineers went down there.

I want this country to adopt technocracy! :(
 
slambo69 said:
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These guys look like absolute ****jockeys.

'No no, dont take my money away I want to buy the latest fashion items every week.'

Its safe to say Britain doesnt need half of the graduates graduating with degrees, in the years they spent getting a lot of them they could have done something more productive.

There was a busload from my uni that went (strathclyde) but I would bet my last time not many (if any) engineers went down there.

I want this country to adopt technocracy! :(
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looks like will smith in house party
 
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