December 10, 2010
By Khalid
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The Recent Student Protests Over Education Fees
For a number of reasons I commend the students who are demonstrating peacefully against the increase in tuition fees. Having completed a degree and completed numerous job applications and interviews, I’m only too aware of the need for a degree in today’s competative job market.
The UK is becoming a services industry; we grow/manufacture less, we export less and we’re not exactly a major holiday destination.
In my opinion our income from our services will become the backbone of our economy and for those reasons we should be concentrating on education and training as many young hopefuls as possible. What the UK government are doing is making further education less attractive, forcing successful graduates to pay back enourmous amounts of money and advertising our country as a bloody expensive place to live where people just accept change.
Never have I seen any country so happy to sit back and watch petrol prices rise, tax on everything to become a norm and our education system to become a means to repaying the trillions of debt we’re drowning in. Everyone says how terrible it is, yet when protests become a little hot under the collar they’re quick to insult those actively campaigning against it.
I don’t agree with violence, afterall the police officer you’re probably fighting against has student debt too or is sick of how at least a third of his salary goes out the window. But, something needs to be done.
In an effort to avoid getting into confrontations with people on either side of the fence, here’s my suggestions as to what the government could be doing to better our country…
1. Run the country like a business - We’re wasting billions on absolute crap, as highlighted by the likes of Mr Green, Mr Taylor and FOE.
2. Stop giving out money to people who don’t want to work – If you’re disabled or require any sort of assistance then fine, but otherwise get off your arse and get a job. Despite there being a recession companies like my employer are still recruiting because we’re pro-active.
“Welfare now costs £192 billion a year, a “staggering” increase of 45 per cent in a decade, Mr Osborne said. “We are wasting the talents of millions and spending billions on it,” – Telegraph.
3. Stop the UK being treated as a “Free” country – If you want access to the like of the NHS then at least 12 months of paying National Insurance (unless you’re part of point 2) is required.
4. Stop letting people off - If you get arrested for e.g. drunk & disorderly, no more “warnings”! You pay a fine equivalent to the cost of arresting, transporting and detaining you.
5. Chain gangs - If you’re in jail then there’s tonnes of snow that need clearing, plenty of streets that could do with a clean and much more we’re paying for we could be getting as a payback for your stay.
6. Bye bye Royals – Pay them off! They’re good for tourism I agree, but bloody hell they’re already rich why should we keep paying them! £37.4 million saved.
7. If you’re obese through laziness, flat chested due to being unlucky, an alcoholic because you a few too many beers or unfortunate that you can’t have kids then help is going to cost you! - Hospitals are an emergency care service, not a place for free gastric bands, new boobs, a transplant because you want to drink more or IVF because you cannot conceive naturally. Sorry, but there’s hard working, good people who need emergency treatment, the NHS isn’t a system that we can abuse.
8. Insert more here - I’m sure after publishing this post I’ll think of hundreds of other ways the UK could save money!
