Fight for your cause...

Over the last few weeks we have all seen and heard about the highly publicised rise in tuition fees for university students, potentially tripling students debt in the future. Being a former student myself, currently with around £8,500 debt which slowly climbs each year, i can understand peoples frustration at what seems like an insult to the people who struggle financially each year.

What i don't agree with is the way that the unions and students alike have gone about "protesting" their cause. They are always billed as a peaceful protest and that they will peacefully march along a proposed route agreed by both the police and local authorities and in a perfect world it would all go smoothly.

As we have seen almost all of these "peaceful" protests descended into violence and disorder. Students wanting to fight their cause, and i wont say it was just a small minority because i don't believe it was, damaging and defacing government property and national and historical monuments, most notably the statue of Winston Churchill and our own national flag. This is pure shameful violence that carries no positive message that will possibly change the governments mind regarding the introduction of the higher tuition fees.

Think of it this way. Go to your local high street, find the biggest shiniest bank there, go inside and ask the prettiest woman behind the counter you can find for a loan, for your important university fees, with a microscopic interest rate that they will allow you to defer in times of need, and that after 25 years they will write off. You can try the bank next door but they will probably laugh you out of the door as well.

We should feel privileged that we live in such a developed country where we get free primary, secondary and college education, and that we have such good universities available for us. We don't live in a third world country where education is a luxury that few are blessed with and, contrary to belief, we are actually lucky to have politicians like David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Milliband who don't go round the country chopping peoples hand offs just because we didn't vote for them like Robert Mugabe.

I hope that every single person responsible for the disturbances, violence and damage are arrested and are dealt with severely and may start to think twice about the way they put their points and views across.

As my mother-in-law always says "You catch more bee's with honey than vinegar."