Good luck to the tuition fees

Thursday, 09 December 2010 07:33

General Thoughts

Really really hope the tuition bill passes today. I am all in favour of university and want it to be as affordable as possible but as someone who went to uni and dropped out I still have to pay back fees when I got nothing from the system and I welcome the government raising the threshold to £21k so most of the people I know from uni pay back considerably less while the rich future bankers will pay much more, that sounds very fair to me.

I am sick of the pathetic protests and the ridiculous comparisons drawn in the media. The students in the 60s were protesting a draft so they would not be killed they had no other choice but civil disobedience, the miners in the 80s were grown men loosing their livelihoods with no options left to them so striking was appropriate. To draw any comparison what so ever with the bunch of yobs that are running around smashing things up because they don't want to pay for a service they use is just stupid.

If they were so concerned with education they would have used their minds and debated the figures, or they would have protested to their universities to make courses shorter and cheaper, or they would have lifted a finger when labour were in power bringing in these fees and pissing away every penny of public funds on bombing the middle east, buying weapons and paying for consultations to their mates so they could leave this county bankrupt. But now it is a tory government it is some how seen as 'cool' and 'fun' to go smash up buildings.

I don't give a damn about how rich the Tories are or if the liberals said they would not do it because all politicians are lying bastards and we all knew that, all I care about policy, and the policy is much better and much fairer. I am all in favour of someone coming up with a better idea but not more of this labour spin crap that just spends spends spends until we are like Ireland, Spain or Greece. University is a privilege not a right, and students up and down the country use it as a drinking club then wonder why people don't want to pay their taxes to give them a free ride.

If I had it my way all degree prices would be controlled by a ministry of labour that judged what graduates were needed each year and set prices accordingly. So if you want ot be a doctor, or a scientist, or a lawyer, or a teacher it's free but if you want to take "Stand-up Comedy" you can piss off and pay for that your self. As for the students protesting, your nothing but rebels without a cause who only damage the debate that needs to be had about how we educate people in the UK.

Leave ya with some fun facts:
Bill Gates - Dropped out of Uni, made crap loads of cash
Richard Branson - Did not go to Uni...also made crap loads of cash
Peter Jones - Did not go to Uni...made slightly less cash than other two, but still good effort.

Gordon Brown - Went to Uni at just 16, and had a PHD although because labour spin did not want to seem to smart and alienate their thick-as-pig-shit-electorate (hear on referred to as the labour party)  you will never hear him referred to as Dr. Brown, always Mr. Brown. Turned out to be one of, if not the, worst prime minister in British history putting the country on its knees failing to win an election as party leader despite working his entire life for that aim.

Oh and to all the people saying the Tories are the party of Thatcher...they were also the part of Churchil so maybe you want to grow up from comparing who's team is better than who's and focus on coming up with a better way of getting the UK out of the shit that it is in.