Caporegime
No they can't.
As pointed out above who is going to do the millions of low paid jobs?
There will always be a lower class no matter how hard everyone works.
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No they can't.
As pointed out above who is going to do the millions of low paid jobs?
There will always be a lower class no matter how hard everyone works.
Soldato
I think many voted Conservative as the idea of the Two Eds running the country terrified them.
It's called a student loan... You pay it back in a capped tax over years of work, or you don't pay it back if you don't make the threshold.
While a large tuition fee isn't brilliant the fact is you don't "pay" it in the normal sense of the word. It's that, or they increase tax for everyone, to pay for some to go to uni.
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And the Tories were the ones who, pre-crash, were calling for less banking regulation, you think they had the country's best interest in mind when crowing for that?
Put it this way - I've worked as hard as my dad did upto my age (who didn't have it easy as such), I've taken advantage of the opportunities as much as he did, etc. I don't have half the house buying power he did at my age, I don't have half the pension potential to show for it, etc. etc. none of which is down to my doing and if the Tories have their way that is only going to get worse.
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The future with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (public service privatisation & the removal of power from the UK to US business), the provision of care for the sick & disabled, the reintroduction of bloodsports (a socially regressive move) are all signs of us taking steps backwards.
As somebody mentioned earlier, most people fear the SNP or the EU having control over our laws, but seem utterly indifferent to us being over-ruled & directly by the whims & desires of a series of transnational corporations.
It's a shame a number of the population, the most vulnerable will pay the price for the wants & desires of the public.
I'll be better off economically under this government, which seems somewhat unfair - as in my income bracket wages have already risen consistently through the recession - I've felt no burden or hardship.
Why should I be getting more breaks?.
As somebody mentioned earlier, most people fear the SNP or the EU having control over our laws, but seem utterly indifferent to us being over-ruled & directly by the whims & desires of a series of transnational corporations.
It's a shame a number of the population, the most vulnerable will pay the price for the wants & desires of the public.
I'll be better off economically under this government, which seems somewhat unfair - as in my income bracket wages have already risen consistently through the recession - I've felt no burden or hardship.
Why should I be getting more breaks?.
You can work it out from the bbc results page - its something like 20 million off the top of my head.
(EDIT: Its almost 30 million actually).
What a load of rubbish, absolute nonsense. This is the type of trash which gives people an unrealistic view of any party whether its tory, labour, lib dems etc
You sound like the one with tunnel vision
Soldato
Take the electorate and work it out as a percentage.
But you don't have to save anything as you pay nothing up front.
That pretty much echos my situation and I feel a little embarrassed when you put it like that if I'm honest.
it's probably 25 million OAPS landlords and rich people
they need to make it illegal not to vote
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31,154,534 based on 66.1% turnout of 46,425,386 electorate
Soldato
You do realise there is a pretty good student loan system in place, whereby you don't pay anything in advance, and get your further education, and only have to pay back when you're earning above a threshold, paying back a relatively small amount per month. A loan wherein the repayments change if your circumstances change both upwards and downwards, unlike other loans where the repayments are fixed. And also a one where it get's "written off" after x amount of time. Pretty good trade off to allow you do optional further education, which is ultimately done to better your working position I would say.
That probably means its not just 34% of people in the country didn't vote. There are probably a few more million who have lost all care of who runs the country and are not even on the electoral list?
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Because you're a wealth creator, a go-getter, your what keeps the country afloat, anyone not like you is scrounging scum that doesn't deserve any help or a leg up because it's all their own fault.
Caporegime
I can't believe I'm going to actually defend tuition fees but this is completely inaccurate. No-one has to pay tuition fees up front, they are paid back after graduation on fairly generous terms.
Most students will still be paying off their loans when their own children go to university, of course, but apparently we're not supposed to be bothered about that.
Soldato
So what good do you think withdrawing financial support will do?
I would suggest it would aggravate the factors I outlined - which would make the outcome worse. How would such cuts improve the picture?