I wish I’d been in England these past few days to express my disgust at the rise in tuition fees. I’m extremely pissed off by all these idiots saying “I’m just so ashamed to be a student right now, this is just so embarrassing” ERR!?! What? Shut up fuddy duddies! It’s about time the “apathetic generation” started standing up for what they believe in and I for one am bloody proud.
Ok yes, we can’t condone violence. But let’s not pretend like this is the first time a protest has ever turned violent – there were 50,000 people there and a very small minority took it too far and it’s a shame that people got injured. Everyone is completely overreacting – the media have chosen to focus on this, ignoring the vast majority who marched peacefully (with some really excellent banners, I must say). They completely underestimated the size of the protest and any fool could see the potential for violence – a lot of the people there would never have been to a protest before and don’t have the experience to realise when it’s getting out of hand PLUS where were all the police? They should have been able to keep it under control.
David Cameron (I can’t even say his name without wanting to puke) is opting to focus on the violence that went on, completely blowing it out of proportion, as his tactic to avoid confronting the huge opposition to his policy.
Finally, the person who should be ashamed of themselves is Nick Clegg. We’ve been royally screwed and that’s the last time I will be making a “tactical” vote. I never liked him, I though he was lightweight, I just thought, labour will never get in here so I’ll vote for the lesser of two evils… BUT I have a lot of friends who were really keen on him, almost solely because of Lib Dem policies on education. Look how that turned out.