Middle-classes riot
However unpleasant the scenes of University students rioting outside Conservative HQ last week were I suspect what we witnessed are a foretaste of things to come as the middle classes come to realise that when Cameron and Clegg say “we are all in it together”, they are part of the “WE”.
So last week’s 50,000 strong protest in London was not just about the least advantaged students being deprived of an education, it was the middle class students from on or above average income families saying NO to Clegg’s Lib/Dem betrayal of them. They now know that when every Lib/Dem candidate, including Clegg and Cable were signing pledges to vote against any increase to student fees at the General election, they had two months before the election agreed to abandon that policy if Cameron wanted them in his Government. This treachery is well beyond the pale of the usual Lib/Dem political hypocrisy. For the millions of voters who voted for Clegg and Cameron not only are they seeing their child benefit frozen and/or abolished but they will now have to fork out £30000-£50000 to put their kids through university. The message from the country’s students last week was, “They are all in it together”; “together against the Con/Dem Coalition.“
Middle-classes Riot
Middle-classes riot
However unpleasant the scenes of University students rioting outside Conservative HQ last week were I suspect what we witnessed are a foretaste of things to come as the middle classes come to realise that when Cameron and Clegg say “we are all in it together”, they are part of the “WE”.
So last week’s 50,000 strong protest in London was not just about the least advantaged students being deprived of an education, it was the middle class students from on or above average income families saying NO to Clegg’s Lib/Dem betrayal of them. They now know that when every Lib/Dem candidate, including Clegg and Cable were signing pledges to vote against any increase to student fees at the General election, they had two months before the election agreed to abandon that policy if Cameron wanted them in his Government. This treachery is well beyond the pale of the usual Lib/Dem political hypocrisy. For the millions of voters who voted for Clegg and Cameron not only are they seeing their child benefit frozen and/or abolished but they will now have to fork out £30000-£50000 to put their kids through university. The message from the country’s students last week was, “They are all in it together”; “together against the Con/Dem Coalition.“