Showing posts with label NUS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NUS. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Its Labour's selfish hypocrisy that's the enemy of poor students getting to University

At last the Coalition has started fighting back at the muddled thinking and just plain ignorance of much of the "make taxpayers - including poor people who never went to Uni" pay instead of the future middle class.

There is a spectacularly good offer for financing University education with no risk and nothing to pay unless you succeed.

So the future careerist left wing hypocrites are left with just one self for filling and self serving argument. "The idea of debt will put off poor students" - well it might when you say it like that without explaining all the safeguards and no win no pay parts of the government loans offer. In fact its the left who are putting poor students off by wilfully misinforming them and running scaremongering schemes. But then what's new - the left's relationship with poverty has long been that of a drug pusher with his clients.

Now its true that anyone who aspires to go to University should be able to see through the naked political manipulation of the NUS and Labour cases - after all why do we want stupid people at Uni. ( And by the way weren't many of those interviewed over the last few weeks depressing for the shear scale of their ignorance. )

But we should all be supporting fair opportunities to succeed for all - like the Coalition is doing.

Lets also remember, if by some awful disaster, Gordon Brown had carried on as PM they would have been implementing the Browne review instead, and all the selfish careerist student politicians who hope to be Labour parasite MPs one day would have played their opposition down as it impact their future snouts in the trough of what we now call politics.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Student tuition fees - protesting for a left wing lie

The BBC is notorious for letting left wing commentators of the hook, and they were at their best again this morning (R4Today this morning) when interviewing some student union president or other who was trying the lie that student tuition fees mean education is only for the well off.

1) Education needs to be paid for. Either those who are about to join the middle classes pay for it - or those who don't get to University will have to pay. This point is almost never put to the self righteous left wing talking heads.
2) Anyone who aspires to go to University should be capable of understanding there is no risk to paying these fees with the special government loans. If your education doesn't lead to economic success you don't pay ! That's not putting off the poor - just the stupid. ( Indeed its perhaps a bad deal for the tax payer - but there you have it. )

But of course the real underlying truth is none of this is about students or education - it is about the great left wing fantasy of protesting ( an end in itself ) and politicising a generation who are just gullible enough to think whatever they are told to think and never to question.

Indeed a major criticism of the current education system must be what sort of robots are we turning out who can't get their heads around the basic facts and arguments ?

Now I know there are side issues on how those in Labour special Celtic heart lands don't have to pay for things, but get English taxpayers to allow them to free-load. But that is a separate issue.

Its time the NUS was seen for the narrow bigoted partisan Left wing training institution that it is. And perhaps time to attack it funding and the way it conscripts students. It may also be time to separate political activity in student unions from social, welfare and sports activities.

Michael Gove has shown the way - time to drain the left wing swamp that produces such moronic arguments to deceive people with.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

The real victims of the hijacked student demo are the Chinese

Watching the BBC's all to predictable reporting of the left wing thuggery in London today when agitators hijacked naive students into the disgrace we saw today it occurred to me who the real victims of their selfish and self righteous indulgence were. The Chinese people.

The BBC does its best to make trouble for David Cameron on his visit to China ( where he is fighting for the economic future of us all by the way ). They complain that this or that dissident wasn't mentioned and no denouncement of China was made by David Cameron.

But remember the Chinese looked to London today and saw the party headquarters of the governing party being threatened by a rabble of anarchists and naive students. What do you think they concluded ? Of course they will have thought the UK is far too lax and that the result of democracy and freedom of protest are the self destructive behaviour seen today.

So not only were left wing students campaigning to get poor non graduates to pay part of their fees through taxation, but they put back the cause of democracy and freedom in the East also.

They should all hang their heads in shame - if only they had the sense to feel shame.