Riots in the UK about tuition fee increases - an observation

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Machina said:

I completely disagree. I'm 24, recently graduated from a UK university with not insignificant levels of debt, and have zero sympathy for the protestors.


First of all, the scenes last night were disgusting; why should taxpayers pay for a three year extended holiday for these people? The people who spent all night vandalising public property, urinating against war memorials, laying waste to some of this country's most famous landmarks and hospitalising police officers. And they feel the country owes them something?

I think it's perfectly fine to disagree with publicly funded education. What I am saying is that the country should get its priorities straight - is it more important to cut public education or to stop the ones that are laying waste on the world's economy?

The scenes of a few rogue protestors damaging some things may make for shocking TV, but you can take it to the bank (lol) that this is nothing next to the damage this never-ending recession is creating and will create.