A few short points
1. Politicians who lie to us have no right to lecture us
2. Politicians who got a free education have no right to criticise anyone who feels cheated when they are robbed of this.
3. Governments cannot criticise acts of violonce and lawbreaking whilst allowing us to collude in acts of violence and lawbreaking in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo bay.
4. If someone tells you something to secure a position of advantage and then does the opposite, they are a cheat and a liar.
Simple as that
100% spot on and i am sure you speak for most parents - teachers - and decent human beings who form the majority in the UK.
ReplyDeleteI feel so sorry for the students today. They have been well and truly lied to and taken advantage.
Once again we see the young paying for the mistakes of the stinking rich in the UK. Not fair and not Big Society. This is a worse excess than most of the right wing policies of the last 30 years.
Ain't just the students who have been lied to and the mickey taken. Their parents have also been mugged because we as parents will not want to see our kids with huge debts given that most graduates start at £18-20k and by 2012, their first job will be the minimum of £21k.
ReplyDeleteSo yes, it is a graduate tax f one finds work and it's not, if one has not foud their first job -- William Hague spinning the English language just before the debate in the Commons
Watching Newsnight tonight it all suddenly became clear, that something profoundly important has happened, the old order of things has gone, and a new generation of radical politics is born. Hooray. Instead of focusing on the pathetically predictable but isolated acts of violence by troublemakers, the attention should be on the way in which the energy of a younger generation, protesting on the streets so sharply contrasts with the decadence, hypocrisy and greed of the elected Coalition government sitting on their smug little backsides in the House of Commons.
ReplyDeleteI also think there is a sea-change going on. The old order IS under challenge.
ReplyDelete(And no-one will ever take the route they say they will take, on marches ever again!)
Historically, it will be seen as the coming together of:
- the end of the cold war (no more "Go back to Russia", that is, no informal social stability, from trying to avoid something even worse),
- globalisation weakening nation states and their ability to control events and their economies,
- widening wealth gaps (including squeezing traditional middle class professionals).
Although, having typed that, it seems too obvious to be much of an insight. Anyway, I know it sounds a bit like an A-level exam, but I'll throw those comments in anyway.
Saw a great article at the following link that took a funny look at why students attacked the car carrying Prince Charles.... makes the point that students thought the car had a riot horse in the back seat. Well worth a look http://www.themondaysupplement.co.uk/headline/horsing-around-camilla-in-student-riot-mix-up/
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