Reflections On The Battle Of Millbank

[poliphilo]

1. David Cameron wasn't even in the country. And, really, no-one would have paid any attention to the student protest if things hadn't turned a little rough. Good-natured demonstrations achieve nothing. If you want government- any government- to sit up and take notice you've got to scare the bastards.

2. I would prefer to live in a society where it wasn't necessary to storm buildings and throw fire extinguishers at the police, but it wasn't the marchers who started this war. This government has chosen to deal with the woeful financial situation by taking money mainly from the weak. They could have gone after the bankers and the corporations; they could- for instance- have required Vodaphone to pay its taxes- but they chose the line of least resistance.  Maybe they thought it would be the line of no resistance at all. If so they have discovered their mistake.

3. Target the rich and they'll withdraw their donations and the support of their newspapers; target the poor and they'll kick your windows in. 

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

As I've just mentioned on another LJ, isn't it strange how, more or less alone among the govt/political buildings around Millbank, CCHQ was the only one without reinforced police protection yesterday? It stinks of BlackOps.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Food for thought....

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Word.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I would have no sympathy with student protestors if it wasn't for this one fact: I got a student grant, a few hundred pounds a year that allowed me to leave a fairly shitty comprehensive and go to University. I left Uni after six years with only £800 of debt, and I paid that off in the first three months of my first job. Since then I have repaid my tuition fees a hundred times over in tax and national insurance.

I wish that education could be seen as a Public Good, but the problem is that nowadays 50% of the population are supposed to go into further and higher education and the finances won't stand it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The idea that education is a public good is foreign to this government- as it was to the government that preceded it.