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How unfair and crap, breaking manifesto pledges tsk tsk.

But he'll win because all his Blairites and Blairettes will support him.

Bah

There's no such thing as a poor person in communism, comrade!

I have a dilemma

The Socialist in me wants poorer people to go to University, yet in doing so myself and my family become poor and struggle more so than ever.

So they want the lower and upper classes to go to uni, at the expense of the middle classes? That's the vibe I'm getting.

Well, I was put of uni even before the top up fees were thought up, but now I won't even consider it - it's just too expensive.

monkey_man wrote:

> Do you seriously think that? I'd have never gone to Uni if it was
> all based on academic achievements, but I deserve to be there and
> I've worked hard to get the A's and B's, and sometimes C's I get.
> GCSE's and A-Levels mean nothing - you can get in just as easily by
> impressing the people that actually matter, not UCAS.

Good for you

Don't know why I'm complaining, I study in Scotland and I'm a lazy dumbasss now anyway.

ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> I'm all for more taxi's, there's never one when you need one after
> leaving a club at 2 in the morning.

The worst are those stealth taxi's, sneaking around town with their lights off so they don't have to take drunk people home, and then running you over while you're scraping your kebab off the road.

But, yeah, tuition fees. I don't know what the answer is but I do know that is absolutely unbelievable that politicians can say one thing to get elected and then do the complete opposite once they're in power. Isn't our democracy limited enough? We should be able to sue our MPs over this sort of thing, seriously, because it's fraud.

SHEEPY wrote:
> Instead of increasing financial boundaries they should make it
> intellectually harder to get in to Uni.
>
> Now everybody is there... honestly you should see some of the people
> that walk about my Uni.

Do you seriously think that? I'd have never gone to Uni if it was all based on academic achievements, but I deserve to be there and I've worked hard to get the A's and B's, and sometimes C's I get. GCSE's and A-Levels mean nothing - you can get in just as easily by impressing the people that actually matter, not UCAS.

And all these calls for Blair to resign because of it? Well, that's the stupid, naive student for you - the sort that goes to these demos to get days off! Do you really think the situation would change if someone else was in power? I know the guy's a chump, but we'd still have the same problems.

Instead of increasing financial boundaries they should make it intellectually harder to get in to Uni.

Now everybody is there... honestly you should see some of the people that walk about my Uni.

It's a toughie, because the money's got to come from somewhere, but you try taking money away from the armed forces, schools, hospitals/healthcare, etc...it's just not happening. No one's really been constructive and offered an alternative - that's what we need.

I'm all for more taxi's, there's never one when you need one after leaving a club at 2 in the morning.