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Charge Students More say Bosses
Clegg To Axe Tuition Fees Pledge
I confess, I don't have a horse in this race other than as a taxpayer, I have no children and I didn't go to University, I tried it for a year, but it wasn't for me.
However if I have to pay for someones higher education, I want it to be the brightest and the best and not including the lazy and lackluster.
That however is not my point, my point is that this seems to be another occasion where our glorious leaders having availed themselves of a benefit seek to deny it to everyone below them.
I cannot think of a single sitting MP that did not have their tuition fees paid for by you and I (or in my case by my father and Grandfather and a little bit by me, I've been paying tax since 1983) and I should imagine that all those suits at the CBI got their degrees courtesy of Joe Public as well. I went to school with a sitting MP and I know for a fact that he didn't have to put his hand in his pocket to pay for his Social & Political Sciences degree or finish with a £25,000 overdraft, yet one of his first actions on election was to vote in favour of tuition fees, despite a manifesto promise not to introduce them.
This is just rank hypocrisy (and I thought so at the time they were introduced) other examples include;
One blogger who I visit recently said that we are no longer a democracy ( if we ever were)* but are heading down the slippery slope to feudalism, with a few barons at the top , the local councils acting as thier landlords and talleymen with the rest of us as just serfs existing only at their whim, our pleasures and joys to be constrained and withheld by what ever capriciousness takes their fancy.
They say it was The Black Death that was the beginning of the end of feudalism in Britain, we may have hope it comes again. Because I don't think there's enough lamp-posts or piano wire to rid the country of all them all.
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Charge Students More say Bosses
Clegg To Axe Tuition Fees Pledge
I confess, I don't have a horse in this race other than as a taxpayer, I have no children and I didn't go to University, I tried it for a year, but it wasn't for me.
However if I have to pay for someones higher education, I want it to be the brightest and the best and not including the lazy and lackluster.
That however is not my point, my point is that this seems to be another occasion where our glorious leaders having availed themselves of a benefit seek to deny it to everyone below them.
I cannot think of a single sitting MP that did not have their tuition fees paid for by you and I (or in my case by my father and Grandfather and a little bit by me, I've been paying tax since 1983) and I should imagine that all those suits at the CBI got their degrees courtesy of Joe Public as well. I went to school with a sitting MP and I know for a fact that he didn't have to put his hand in his pocket to pay for his Social & Political Sciences degree or finish with a £25,000 overdraft, yet one of his first actions on election was to vote in favour of tuition fees, despite a manifesto promise not to introduce them.
This is just rank hypocrisy (and I thought so at the time they were introduced) other examples include;
MP's voting through a 7% pay rise in the midst of the worst recession in 25 yearsThe list I'm afraid is endless and I'm sure you have your own examples.
Continuing to raise alcohol duty, while enjoying subsidised bars.
EU regulations banning smoking rooms, whilst continuing to supply them in the EU Parliament.
Local councils ignoring the law for their own ends
One blogger who I visit recently said that we are no longer a democracy ( if we ever were)* but are heading down the slippery slope to feudalism, with a few barons at the top , the local councils acting as thier landlords and talleymen with the rest of us as just serfs existing only at their whim, our pleasures and joys to be constrained and withheld by what ever capriciousness takes their fancy.
They say it was The Black Death that was the beginning of the end of feudalism in Britain, we may have hope it comes again. Because I don't think there's enough lamp-posts or piano wire to rid the country of all them all.
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*emphasis mine
HECS.
ReplyDeleteHigher Education Contribution Scheme.
Two options.
Either we stump up with up to around $25,000 depending on what degree(s) our children want to do, or they take out a commitment to pay it back when they start earning, thus ensuring they will never be able to buy their own house or some other fiscal frippery.