Should these marches been allowed?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/2wsfwly

In view of their past record were the police right to allow these thugs to march?

Take a look at the second picture, do we want such scenes on our streets, and are their actions any different from those of the militant Muslims?

Who is to say that a photo of students hanging a leading politician is any less serious than a group of Muslims burning an effigy of a leading politician?

[kinell]

i may have missed something recently..

is going to university now compulsory?

[benny3008]

I was part of one of these protest marches and i do think they should be allowed, everyone has a right to air their views, Right? Here's the one here in Hereford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqxyoEFI0lo

[bibblebub]

This is part of how the Guardian reported things http://www.guardian.c...test-largely-peaceful , not quite the end of civilization that the Mail always portrays.

[askyourgran]

I always thought you had to be reasonably intelligent to go to university. If this is our next generation, God help us. By the state of the spelling on those placards we should be re assessing their suitability for further education.

[naomi24]

Not any more gran. Equal opportunities - innit!

[bibblebub]

Ever since the local polytechnic was allowed to call itself a university, a reasonable level of intelligence has not a been a criterion for being labelled a university student.

[askyourgran]

Words fail me.

[naomi24]

Sadly Gran, words fail many of them too - along with maths........and science .......and .....

[birdie1971]

What these (predominantly young) people seem unable to grasp is that going to university to get a degree is only really necessary for very specific careers. Getting a degree seems to have become the new holy grail for students. It's almost as if they have a collective delusion that the acquisition of a degree equates to a well paid, fulfilling career. This is utter nonsense and I feel slightly sorry for them that they have been sold this lemon of an idea.

What no one seems to have told them is this - there are very, very few careers that insist upon you having a degree in order for you to get a foot in the door.

I think the problem is that quite a lot of these students honestly consider the notion of starting on the bottom rung of the ladder and working their way up as anathema. It's symptomatic of the 'I want' generation that they genuinely think that society should reward them for what they consider to be hard work (ie. studying).

[birdie1971]

Continued...

It's that same philosophy that causes young people to moan about house prices. They look at their parent's house (which has mostly likely taken them years and years of hard graft to acquire) and their parents careers and salaries and they want them. And they want them now.

They have been sold an utterly unrealistic expectation of life. That, fuelled with a lack of appreciation of what hard work really is (ie. decades of toil), leads to frustration which sometimes manifests itself as violence.

Freddy Mercury said it best, “I want it all. I want it all. And I want it now”. He forgot to add, “... and I don't see why I should have to pay for it. It's not fair...”.

[Groupie]

This may work!

Pacify violent students by erecting a huge screen showing re-runs of countdown.

[anotheoldgit]

birdie1971

I think you have hit it right on the head, very good.

It is the X Factor they seek, celebrity status overnight.

No one wants to aim for the top strictly on the sheer hard work, bottom of the rung, basis.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit You set the questions and I answered them, now waiting for my results.

[Sqad]

bibblebub

<<Ever since the local polytechnic was allowed to call itself a university, a reasonable level of intelligence has not a been a criterion for being labelled a university student.<<<

Spot on.

Why cant we in the UK use Water Canons?

[sandyRoe]

Water cannons are far too softly-softly. We need to crack a few more skulls and show these students that protest, like much else in life, comes at a cost.

[Kromovaracun]

Violence is the answer.