But they are means tested surely and you get help from your folks which a lot of other people probably don't get so it's just swings and roundabouts really.
So your parents and a loan pay your rent and you spend your free cash entertaining yourself? And you don't count yourself lucky? Why should you get any more help than that? Dreaming.
Have you seen the amount of unemployed Post-grads? Now isn't there a laundrette you should be sitting in or some innocent fresher you should be plying with alcopops ready for date raping?
Just out of interest what are you planning to "offer society" when you graduate? I am fairly certain most...
There isn't a student in the UK that doesn't spend at least half his loan/grant on boooze, pizzas, entertainment etc. Any of them that say they don't is either lying or a massive geek. It is what uni is for. You drink your food money and live off beans. Any of them that say they are hard up...
I think the world wars may have played a contributing factor. During the 2nd world war so many children were left with absent fathers and after post war many were permanantly deprived of father figures. Many kids left to fend for themselves and many left wanting. This huge break-up of the family...
I wasn't critizising immigrants, just the opposite in fact. What I meant was that England is struggling to deal with the influx and needs to devise a better system which works in everybodies favour, including refugees and immigrants. I am glad England accepts immigrants and tries to help them...
The problem is England just isn't England anymore. I don't want us to rule the Empire again and f*** with other countries, just want us to keep what we do have intact. The good side of England is magnificent and our values and morals are second to none.
I understand that we have to be tolerant...