Comments on: Tory council leader calls protesters “an ugly, badly-dressed student rabble”

By: Tom White

Tom White — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:19:47 +0000

Anon E Mouse = Troll – and a stupid troll at that. Don’t waste your time…

By: Anon E Mouse

Anon E Mouse — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:58:29 +0000

Mr.Sensible – Did you not read my conclusion before posting?

I concluded: “The answer to “Why should the dustman pay for the doctor?” is that the doctor will pay more in taxes in the long run than the cost of the education to the state. (That only works on high value occupations not stupid Guardian type non jobs)”

What I don’t understand is why the media or more importantly the hapless Ed Miliband don’t just make that point.

The doctor will pay more in extra taxes than the cost to the state of the education…

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:45:33 +0000

He looks like a tramp in a suit. Farty little Tory PRICK

By: Alison Niedbalski

Alison Niedbalski — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:30:09 +0000

RT @si_francis: Council leader, who is also a college governor, rails against 'ugly' students: http://bit.ly/fa6N5F #cuts

By: Burn a Debt

Burn a Debt — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:52:42 +0000

I have been reading alot here about dustmen and doctors. I can’t really take either side of this arguement to heart. As one of the unwashed mass of students I only want to put accross that for the most part, students are studying. There may be some who can afford the time to protest the rise in fees, personally I would like to get my degree before I am faced with this whopping increase. As a child from a family of six, raised by a single parent on benefits (when would she have had time to work), and from Northern Ireland I am a Tory nightmare. There has been no big society to help us along the way. I am taking my oppourtunity to better myself with a degree and professional qualification. Would I be likely to have made the same attemts had the fees been so high – no is the answer. At the moment it is feasable for the dustmans children to become doctors, or anything they please, could the same be said if they were forced to pay £9000 a year. And is it really fair to say the dustman pays for the doctor when higher wage earners pay more tax? I honestly don’t know who is right,though it seems to me that the people making these arguements are well educated, would they be so if they had to pay high fees, they possibly did anyway. I for one would like to keep to the vision of a fairer society where people live the lives they should because of thier talent, not because they can afford it, where a body can improve themselves regardless of thier socioeconomic background. Rant over I guess.

By: Silver

Silver — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:52:45 +0000

I’m not sure why people seem to think only our middle class youth, with comfortably-off parents attend Uni. I was on mimimum wage when my sons went. I would not have been able to encourage them to go (I would – rightly or wrongly – have felt it not worth the risk) had they been faced with such a huge potential debt at the end of it. Surely the point is that increased fees prevent minimum wage earners and the children of minimum wage earners from attending University, i.e. such an increase would stagnate social mobility?

By: Bea

Bea — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:24:30 +0000

RT @leftfootfwd: Tory council leader calls protesters "an ugly, badly-dressed student rabble" http://bit.ly/flihWI

By: Mr. Sensible

Mr. Sensible — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:14:25 +0000

Mr Mouse, is it fair that, under these proposals, said minimum wage worker will end up paying more as well?

According to a study reported earlier this week in the Guardian, write-off costs could go up by 9P in the pound.

That is why I say, this is a bad deal both for students and for the taxpayer.

What’s more, graduates are said to have such a positive impact on the economy…

And I really don’t think Mr Mitchell is helping matters with his comment, as I don’t think Vince Cable is helping matters by patronizing students.

And as suggested in the article, I think the government is trying to manipulate the situation by holding the vote when Unionists aren’t forced to be present.

By: Simon Francis

Simon Francis — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:54:26 +0000

Council leader, who is also a college governor, rails against 'ugly' students: http://bit.ly/fa6N5F #cuts

By: loobyloo

loobyloo — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:51:10 +0000

Stop wingeing on about middle class educations being paid for by minimum wage workers – what crap – you see doctors, dentists, have teachers, meet professionals, don’t you? Education is great, and if it was accessible to you that would be even better. Don’t fall for this divide and rule capitalist gobshite. It’s the passive, greedy, immoral shareholders of many companies and who suck from your utility payments who really are the ones to moan about. Go, students, and my uneducated low income dreams go with you.