I work in academia, I believe very strongly in the public funding of higher education, and right now even I'm finding it difficult to muster any sympathy for the students' cause.
Of course, the vast majority of the students were engaged in a peaceful, reasonable protest - as is their democratic right. Unfortunately, there's always a small minority (on both ends of the political spectrum) who are more interested in being militant than achieving their stated goals. It looks like they got sufficiently motivated today to screw everything up for the rest of us. The tragedy is that they've probably done more to destroy the argument for student funding than anything Messrs Cameron, Clegg, Osborne and Blair could ever have done.
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Of course, the vast majority of the students were engaged in a peaceful, reasonable protest - as is their democratic right. Unfortunately, there's always a small minority (on both ends of the political spectrum) who are more interested in being militant than achieving their stated goals. It looks like they got sufficiently motivated today to screw everything up for the rest of us. The tragedy is that they've probably done more to destroy the argument for student funding than anything Messrs Cameron, Clegg, Osborne and Blair could ever have done.