Student protests

[oftendistracted]

Background for the non-UK people: yesterday saw a lengthy demonstration take place outside of the Conservative HQ, protesting the planned rise of student university fees. At present, a domestic student will generally pay about £3,000 a year for tuition, but the groundwork has been laid and the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition has signed off

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[halfassured]

In all fairness, plants and agents provacateurs are standard police policy with demonstrations, so it's possibly something was going on there.

[oftendistracted]

Someone else actually said that to me elsewhere, but I'm not sure I really buy it. We've got a long history of student activism and student drunkenness - see c. 1990, which this event heavily echoes - and a 200% rise in tuition fees is certainly enough to spark sufficient bad feeling for something like this to happen.

[starsofnite]

People.

[asamidori]

because it will get us into the news
With the rest of the nation saying how idiotic you guys were, definitely.