British students in piss poor attempt at mimicking the French

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The NUS complained about fees under the Blair government so often that it sometimes seemed that they did little else.

The reason why so many students (and soon-to-be students) are so angry about what has happened/what is to happen is because of a feeling of betrayal. This isn't just about Clegg signing that pledge, it's more fundamental than that. The LibDems have spent the past decade calling for the abolition of tuition fees, have courted the votes of students in a way that no British political party had ever done before, and have won councillors, councils and constituencies as a direct result. Opposition to tuition fees has been their most distinctive policy and was one of the few things that LibDem candidates in different parts of the country have agreed on. The LibDems supporting increasing tuition fees is massive; it's as if Labour were to decide to abolish the NHS or to declare that a unemployment is a good thing (that is; a policy fundamental to the identity of the party as its voters see it). It is why there is so much anger about this, and why the police underestimated the likely turnout at the demo the other day by tens of thousand, with the consequences that everyone saw on the news the other night.

Personally I think that the most objectionable parts of the Browne review are the things that have not had much media - or even NUS - attention, but then my priorities have always been a little different.

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Personally I think that the most objectionable parts of the Browne review are the things that have not had much media - or even NUS - attention, but then my priorities have always been a little different.

Actually, that's a little unfair. Porter drew attention to the issue of interest on loan payments on Channel Four News the other night.

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Haha. Goldsmiths. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11745570