09/12/10 Day X3 student revolt shakes the CONDEM coalition
The student protests very nearly defeated the coalition less than six months into its rule. MPs voted by 323 to 302 to allow fees to rise to up to £9,000 a year. A coalition majority of 80 fell to 21.
Tens of thousands protested in London on Thursday, and thousands elsewhere. This is not the end, but the beginning of a new phase of revolt.
Students, their parents and many workers will feel a deeper anger now.
A cabinet of 18 millionaires has wrecked the future of millions of young people. It wants to move on to do the same for those who rely on Education Maintenance Allowance.
A policy based on lies, which the Lib Dems pledged not to introduce, was pushed through in the shadow of mounted police charging students.
The main streets outside parliament daubed with graffiti and littered with rocks tells their own story
The police complain that some students “were violent”. But it was the police who spent hours attacking wholly peaceful protesters.
The government “winning” a vote is not the end of the matter. The main protests over Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax in the 1980s took place after the law was passed—and our side won
09/12/10 Day X3 student revolt shakes the CONDEM coalition
The student protests very nearly defeated the coalition less than six months into its rule. MPs voted by 323 to 302 to allow fees to rise to up to £9,000 a year. A coalition majority of 80 fell to 21.
Tens of thousands protested in London on Thursday, and thousands elsewhere. This is not the end, but the beginning of a new phase of revolt.
Students, their parents and many workers will feel a deeper anger now.
A cabinet of 18 millionaires has wrecked the future of millions of young people. It wants to move on to do the same for those who rely on Education Maintenance Allowance.
A policy based on lies, which the Lib Dems pledged not to introduce, was pushed through in the shadow of mounted police charging students.
The main streets outside parliament daubed with graffiti and littered with rocks tells their own story
The police complain that some students “were violent”. But it was the police who spent hours attacking wholly peaceful protesters.
The government “winning” a vote is not the end of the matter. The main protests over Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax in the 1980s took place after the law was passed—and our side won