Civil war in the National Union of Students?
Civil war in the National Union of Students?
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eharding

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14,648 posts

314 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews...

What's going here then? - are they upset he hasn't been throwing enough fire extinguishers at policemen from a great height, failed to set fire to enough public buildings, or generally been enough of a thug?





mph1977

12,467 posts

198 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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appears he's not enough of a Trot for the Trots who dominate Student politics

given the working classes are meant to hate blaaady stewdents - why is there a Socialist worker Student party ? and if the members of the Socialist worker party are workers why are they always plauging town centres and uni campuses in the middle of the day !

phil-sti

2,981 posts

209 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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Have they now stopped blaming the bankers and now its tax avoidance?

Tsippy

15,078 posts

199 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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anonymous said:
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8290571/Student-leader-Aaron-Porter-barracked-with-anti-Semitic-insults.html

Voila!


Tsippy

15,078 posts

199 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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phil-sti said:
Have they now stopped blaming the bankers and now its tax avoidance?
No they're trying to break into shops like Next chanting "Pay your tax"..... how ironic hehe

grumbledoak

32,571 posts

263 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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phil-sti said:
Have they now stopped blaming the bankers and now its tax avoidance?
Which is, of course, perfectly legal. The thick prick.

Victor McDade

4,395 posts

212 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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Telegraph said:
Moritz Kaiser, a 17-year-old sixth former from Oxford, was among those protesting.

"The tuition fee hike will affect my family quite badly and it is unnecessary when you look at how much is lost in tax avoidance."

A dual British-German national, he now intends to head to the European mainland to avoid the additional bill.

"I was going to study here, but in Germany it is only 500 euros a year, and you get a free bus pass," he added.
Good he can fk off then and enjoy his bus pass - less strain on the tax payer here.

It has no bearing on his family whatsoever, he only starts to repay the loan after he graduates and gets a job.

Tsippy

15,078 posts

199 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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Victor McDade said:
Telegraph said:
Moritz Kaiser, a 17-year-old sixth former from Oxford, was among those protesting.

"The tuition fee hike will affect my family quite badly and it is unnecessary when you look at how much is lost in tax avoidance."

A dual British-German national, he now intends to head to the European mainland to avoid the additional bill.

"I was going to study here, but in Germany it is only 500 euros a year, and you get a free bus pass," he added.
Good he can fk off then and enjoy his bus pass - less strain on the tax payer here.
Thankfully he is too thick to realise he does not pay anything upfront in the UK, don't know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that these people are considered the future of our country rolleyes

Brighton Derly

597 posts

189 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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Victor McDade said:
Good he can fk off then and enjoy his bus pass - less strain on the tax payer here.

It has no bearing on his family whatsoever, he only starts to repay the loan after he graduates and gets a job.
And anyway, his family have had 17 years to save up...

DJC

23,563 posts

266 months

Saturday 29th January 2011
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Which only ever brings me back to my longstanding point about university. Namely that if you actually have to study anything academic at university you are too thick to have merited a place in the first place. These ladies and gentlemen are just advertising the fact either in advance of attending or prooving their level of intelligence during their time at their institution of choice.

University is an excellent barometer for identifying those folk in life who's company you will probably enjoy and those who need to be locked away so there is no chance that they map reappear one day and bore you to death. In the first catagory are those who visited at least one pub every day of their student lives, theology students and Welsh farming students (not entirely unrelated or shocking is to note that the latter 2 groups there also form a rather large part of the first group). In the 2nd catagory are students who had "political views" and protested and those who actually went to lectures.

Magog

2,653 posts

219 months

Sunday 30th January 2011
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eharding said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews...

What's going here then? - are they upset he hasn't been throwing enough fire extinguishers at policemen from a great height, failed to set fire to enough public buildings, or generally been enough of a thug?
Did anyone proof read that article? As well as inventing the word 'teh', it also reads as if the protesters who attempted to get into the Arndale were part of the same protest as those who attacked Millbank.

Muntu

7,687 posts

229 months

Sunday 30th January 2011
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Magog said:
Did anyone proof read that article? As well as inventing the word 'teh', it also reads as if the protesters who attempted to get into the Arndale were part of the same protest as those who attacked Millbank.
"Proofread" is the word you are looking for.

Magog

2,653 posts

219 months

Sunday 30th January 2011
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Muntu said:
"Proofread" is the word you are looking for.
rofl I knew something like that was going to happen. In my defence, I'm not writing for the website of a national newspaper.

Muntu

7,687 posts

229 months

Sunday 30th January 2011
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Magog said:
rofl I knew something like that was going to happen. In my defence, I'm not writing for the website of a national newspaper.
Good point biggrin

mcdjl

5,763 posts

225 months

Sunday 30th January 2011
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DJC said:
University is an excellent barometer for identifying those folk in life who's company you will probably enjoy and those who need to be locked away so there is no chance that they map reappear one day and bore you to death. In the first catagory are those who visited at least one pub every day of their student lives, theology students and Welsh farming students (not entirely unrelated or shocking is to note that the latter 2 groups there also form a rather large part of the first group). In the 2nd catagory are students who had "political views" and protested and those who actually went to lectures.
So which category do i fit into? I went to all my lectures and was in the pub every evening (granted that may explain why my results weren't so great- engineering is hard)