Tuition Fees FTW (Yes i am going to keep posting English matters on this mostly american site)

[Jin]

Is it really any surprise that the Lib Dems betrayed their constituencies? This is a party that ultimately evolved from the Whigs, after all.

But seriously, I love watching a good riot. And yes, I'm fully aware of the hypocrisy of saying that when I've never had to experience their effects around me personally, but I don't care. The energy and conviction of the crowd is almost intoxicating; it's so easy to lose yourself in the pure passion of what's going on. It's no wonder so many get drawn into them, even when they resort to violence. Revolutionary fervor is as natural as one's sex drive, and the end results are often as empty and unfulfilling...but in that moment...

[Unknown Entity]

Is it really any surprise that the Lib Dems betrayed their constituencies? This is a party that ultimately evolved from the Whigs, after all.

It was a little bit of a surprise, I'll be honest. They were very popular this year among students who'd only just got the right to vote (at the age of eighteen). At the age of eighteen, most of us are preparing for university, and the idea of no fees sounded fantastic. Of course, a student who hasn't dabbled in political news for the last eighteen years and hears the word "free" and "university" in the same sentence if you vote LibDem... once you have the vote of the politically naive students, you've pretty much won.

I understand that Clegg's terms weren't based on having a coalition, but the fact remains that he vowed to vote against any raise in university fees.

Proposed plans want the price to go up to £9,000 ($14,185.62) per year for, with most courses, for four years. That's a grand total of £36,000 ($56,743.2) plus other expenditures (accommodation, travel, food, clothing, etc). You're looking at at least £40,000 worth of damage, if not more before you're even twenty-three years old.

Oh, and get this; then you have to find a job. There's no guarantee of a job after you've completed a course at university. There's job cuts coming in left, right and center. So that heavy price will be on someone's head for possible years until they have a job with a high enough pay so to pay it back... which'll probably take one or two decades.

Also, you have to take the quality of service into account, and if you're getting what you pay for. £9,000 is three times as much as what it was before... so will we be getting three times as much the service? Will we get more in the way of our education? I wasn't happy with a free education service when I was at college because of the lack of support I was given - I'm not paying "HOW MUCH?!" for that same service.

It's ridiculous. I don't condone violence of the sort demonstrated at these "riots", but the government needs to realise that they've made a dangerous group of enemies. Most students now don't have much to loose.