Stop the Cuts - National Demonstration

No, what I am saying is don't vote Conservative or for any party that would contemplate going in to government with them. Because as we are finding out, it does make a difference. The Tories have not changed and they never will change. The alternative - a Labour government - may be a piss poor one but the price being payed by the poorest and most vulnerable would have been considerably less.

I understand your position more now, but even so im not sure i entirely agree. especially seeing as new labour have effectively become neo-tories anyway.

Protesting against the tuition fees is a non-starter. Save your energy for something that might succeed. When so many people are facing genuine hardship sympathy for students is going to be in very short supply. Not that I agree with £9000 tuition fees and I am sure Labour would have raised them too. Fuck, I am so old the government payed me to go to university.

While I agree tuition fees is not necessarily the most important issue on the agenda, it is something that effects me as an academic in a humanities subject, hence why i feel strongly about it.

But to be honest, im just glad people are striking and taking to the streets at this moment in time, no matter what the cause, Its nice to see that the country has not fallen into irreversible political apathy, which is what its felt like for a very long time.