I’m very disappointed that the bill to increase tuition fees has been successful. The Lib Dems should be ashamed of themselves. They signed a pre-election pledge to vote against any increase. In the end only 21 of them had the balls to vote against the bill with 8 of them abstaining.
Nick Clegg has spent the last few days insulting the public and the students by saying the policy isn’t bad it’s just that people don’t understand it. We do understand the policy Nick and it’s disgraceful. He keeps trying to tell us that it’s not that bad because students won’t have to pay anything back until they are reaping the benefits of their education and earning £21,000 or more. Well let me tell you Nick, £21,000 isn’t very much these days. A great deal of non-graduate jobs (including mine) pay that much.
Imagine a student who has to pay £9,000 on tuition fess and takes out a £4,000 student loan each year of a 3 year course. Total debt £21,000. If the student marries another student or graduate with a similar debt they are staring adult life with a combined debt of £42,000. If they want to buy a small house in the town where I live (one of the cheapest places in the country for property prices) they are going to need a mortgage of at least £75,000.
That means before they have even considered having any children and raising a family they have a combined debt of over £117,000.
This whole episode is going to be very damaging for the Lib Dems:
How are they going to campaign at the next election?
Nobody will believe a word they say.
How will they be able to campaign against the Tory party on the doorsteps?
They can’t as they are the Tories partners in crime.
Well done Nick! You and Vince have destroyed the Lib Dems as a political force. I would be amazed if the party gets more 10% – 12% of the vote at the next election.
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