Category Archives: Cuts

Student rage

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So predictably the government has voted to raise the upper limit of fees that universities can be changed and equally predictably another student demo has descended into violence. Whilst as mentioned before I did benefit from a free University education but that was when a much smaller number of students went to University but as Dizzy observes the way the new loans are structured they only have to be paid back if they start making above a decent wage. Which seems fairer than expecting everyone to contribute to a university education for everyone who’s even just a tiny bit above … Continue reading →

Moving goal posts

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So it seems the EU is screwed, inflation is rising, the Euro is in trouble, the cuts are unpopular, taxes have gone past silly and the economy really isn’t doing terribly well. oh and did I mention the EU is in trouble?. What on earth is a Government to do? Why measure something else instead – something nice and vague and can almost certainly be guaranteed to rise year on year. Not happy must be just you the statistics show everyone else is 5% happier in real terms than last year. Financial measurements that can be checked are so last … Continue reading →

A miscellany of idiocy

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Having muttered about the student “demo” previously I find myself returning to the subject due to comments made by other commentators and people that were there. From the title of this post you can probably gather that I disagree with their points really quite strongly. But of course it’s not just supporters of the student demo’s advocating violence, elsewhere there are green candidates whose response to the cuts impacting “a genuinely shocking number of important animal welfare initiatives” and thus creating the kind of world they don’t wish to live in, is not to look at how they could fund … Continue reading →