The shape of things to come? Let's hope not. *promote

By the way, it was carried by 323 votes to 302.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, December 9th, 2010 11:21am PST - promote requested by radx.

Last thing I heard was protesters attacked the car carrying Prince Charles and Camilla, smashing one of it's windows and throwing a can of paint on it.

Glad I got my university education out of the way when I did. It's gonna get rather pricey, rather soon!

I know politicians go back on their promises but Nick Clegg said that the country has little money and that this is the fair thing to do. So bankers fuck up, still get their insane bonuses and the fair thing is to do is make students pay? You freakin' kiddin' me?

We spent 15 million trying to win votes for the 2018 world cup, perfect example of money wasted. Our current government is making all the wrong budget cuts. Total respect for the students protesting despite the cold weather, yes there was some violence but in most towns and cities the demonstrations were peaceful - it's just London that attracts most of the troublemakers since they know that's where the media cameras will be.

Reality is that this is probably the first big protest of quite a few over the next few years concerning a number of issues due to arise in the UK. Our governments are being told what to do by well-financed corporations who do not have the considerations of society as a whole foremost in their thoughts. Man I hate saying that, 10 years ago I remember hearing that same stuff from conspiracy theorists and thinking it was absurd. Now it's so blatantly obvious that corporations and their wallets dictate a lot of what happens within the governments of many countries.

What has corporate lobbying got to do with student tuition fees? The big companies that soak up billions of pounds of tax-payers' money on delayed and incompetent projects have kept many of their lucrative deals, often signed by civil servants who don't understand what they're signing up for. All those projects and deals need to be reevaluated, and the work agreed upon by skilled individuals in the public sector who understand what is being agreed with the supplier. We've got a great IT skill base in the UK and more coming out of our universities (providing tuition fees don't prevent a lot of skilled individuals attending in the near future), why are we sending billions of pounds out of the country to companies that make it a matter of expectation that there will be failures and missed deadlines? Sure most of the equipment and off-the-shelf software solutions will come from the USA and that's fine, it's the skilled labour we need to source locally.

I could go on forever but I think I've spewed enough incoherent crud for one post

send them to university in china. maybe i'll be teaching there.