Student Demonstrations

I don’t condone the violence but I can understand it. The whole principle of education being a right not a privilege is at risk. All 3 of the main political parties are in favour of charging for university education but education should be free of charge. It should be paid for through taxation.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that there would have to be huge rises in income tax. If the government forced big business to pay the billions of pounds of corporate tax that is owed to the British people there would be more than enough to keep education free. There would also be plenty left to reduce the severity of the cuts needed to bail us out of the mess the banks have caused.