Student protesters - Right or Wrong?

[BensGrandad]

Like most I am in favour of the students peacefully voicing their opinion and airing their grievance but all such demonstrations invariably attract the violent element of mob rule and anachists who probably dont even know what they are protesting about. These are the ones that should be identified and routed out. Proffesional antagonists as I call them

 

[Scampi]

I`ll be funny at 7 in the pub (.

Past evidence suggests that's highly unlikely.

 

[Conkers]

The students are right to protest (peacefully).

Therefore they must be wrong to protest violently.

I think your poll is flawed.

100% this.

 

[Questions]

Past evidence suggests that's highly unlikely. Scampi :



Alright 7.15 then tosser.


Your just pissd because of the battering you took earlier over the Cenotaph bit aren`t you ?
Disrespectful to out war dead ....... you little shit.

 

[drew]

Unfortunately the media seem to mainly interview people who have not got the full facts, is that because the media is biased against students or are most students really thick ?

Same happens when they interview MPs!!

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Right. But I would still get the water cannon on them. Already lathered.

 

[ewe2]

I am all for peaceful protest and reasoned argument.......if we had stormed the labour party conference in pursuit of our new ground, would that have helped....No !The students will enjoy the moment but IMO will regret their actions ,as they have not got national support

 

[somerset]

Probably pointless poll, this board is traditionally left of Stalin politically on the whole,... and there are plenty of those who still shout Tory Scum at every opportunity, though not one of them would have been old enough 13 years ago to remember the last Conservative government,.... let it run its course though, and currently I am surprised that the left isnt having a landslide after 83 votes, very close so far.............. maybe I was wrong in my asessment.

 

[Skint Gull]

Right.

This could be the thin end of the wedge. You could easily see Dave, Nick and Gideon saying in four years time that we should extend fees to sixth formers, secondary and then primary school kids.

If someone is successful at Uni then they do pay extra tax, it is called the higher rate.

Then they'll have no problem paying back their fee's that got them into a position to be earning enough for higher rate tax will they! My problem is not with the doctors of this world going to uni, its with the scroungers who ponce about doing some bullshit degree just so they can live the student life for three years and never earn enough to pay the bloody fee's back!

 

[Braders]

Depends, right if they wish to protest their cause in a lawful manner but wrong if they don't.

correct.

 

[KLF]

A right to protest, absolutely. The constitution of this country is based on free speech. But the way these protests have gone, is very wrong. Although I don't believe the main ring leaders of the worst violence were students, I voted Wrong, but think now I should've voted right. There's more to it that right or wrong.

 

[bhaexpress]

Same happens when they interview MPs!!

No, that's just them being themselves.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I remember protesting the veal trucks down at shoreham in the early 90's. Peaceful protests, made the news, after a few days a violent rentamob turned up, smashed some truck windows, and the cops started charging us, got a baton to my back. Point is, students are right, the violent nutters who don't care about the cause and just want a scrap, are wrong.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

They have a right to protest peacefully. - They do not have a right to riot in the name of protest.

Free education at University is not a right, being made to pay towards it after leaving and only when earning above a certain salary seems perfectly reasonable to me.

If someone who went to College then on to Uni, it is likely they won't be in work and earning until they are about 21 / 22, If someone left school at 16 and started work they would be paying taxes for an additional 5 to 6 years in comparison? - Is that fair on them, or should they be exempt from taxes until parity is met? What about people who choose not to have kids, should they pay less as a result? etc, etc....

If someone chooses to go to Uni, they should be willing to accept that it is fair to have to pay something towards it. Not all Uni's will be charging 9k per year, it's down to each Individual Uni to set their fees and students can then make their choice of where to study taking this into considersation. The fee isn't up front and therefore not prohibative

 

[Football_Friends]

Right or wrong they are making themselves look complete morons!! Further emphasising what people think of the youth of today and furthermore students. They have just started on Topshop in Market Street, Manchester. There are lots of people doing their christmas shopping caught up in it all walking round with children scared. And I am yet to see any of them that look like students!!

 

[Dandyman]

They have a right to protest peacefully. - They do not have a right to riot in the name of protest.

Free education at University is not a right, being made to pay towards it after leaving and only when earning above a certain salary seems perfectly reasonable to me.

If someone who went to College then on to Uni, it is likely they won't be in work and earning until they are about 21 / 22, If someone left school at 16 and started work they would be paying taxes for an additional 5 to 6 years in comparison? - Is that fair on them, or should they be exempt from taxes until parity is met? What about people who choose not to have kids, should they pay less as a result? etc, etc....

If someone chooses to go to Uni, they should be willing to accept that it is fair to have to pay something towards it. Not all Uni's will be charging 9k per year, it's down to each Individual Uni to set their fees and students can then make their choice of where to study taking this into considersation. The fee isn't up front and therefore not prohibative

So what is wrong with paying by progressive rates of income tax or is that a bit scary for the Bullingdon Boys while they push regressive taxation in the form of VAT up to 20% and slash services ?