Demo-lition march 10.11.10

Found this on the guardian website, a photo of Kingston University, our banner and demonstrating! It's been an incredible day, even on the way to the train station you could see the students gathering with placards and banners. Once there the march was peaceful, the turn out - incredible, some saying it got up to about 40,000, with an intially estimated 20,000 people, this is epic. It was fantastic to vent some of the frustration over the whole issue. Sadly some people made it turn violent later on, but to be honest, I found it all very refreshing and it felt like it cut through all the bullshit politicians send our way, they won't listen to us, generally are rubbish at answering questions, and really what did they expect if they were going to put the fees up by 3 fold. They keep saying that they're moving the threshold to pay back up to £20,000, but then we have to pay back at the full whack of the tax rate, and to be honest paying back £30,000 is not an enjoyable prospect. We're also told that they're going to help the very poor, the rich are fine, so what about the middle class? I think it's going to create an elitist system, where the richest are the most educated, god knows how the rest of us are supposed to get an education. And of course the poor tutors at uni's are losing the teaching grants (except for the maths and science ones), so we're supposed to pay £30,000 for little or no teaching? People are raging on the news about how violent we all got, like that wasn't going to happen?? Of course it was going to happen, we all voted lib dems under the impression our fees were going to disappear or at least go down substantially, now having voted in the democracy we supposedly live in, this has happened, without even a referendum. The people rise up in demonstration, given no other choice, and we're belittled and fobbed off by more political smokescreen answers. I'm personally proud to have taken part in today, and sincerely hope something comes out of this, if nothing else a serious pang of guilt for the lib dems would be fantastic!