The people protesting today are uneducated riff-raff

The ugly face of British fascism raises its head once more.

Queer.

So, in your opinion, people should be allowed to riot, creating fear, damage and harm to others?

Straw man, cheers anyway.

You never answer a question other than to make a vague statement. Why don't you just clear off?

Isn't that human nature?! Don't tell me that if you lost your job you would think, "well, that's OK, because in the long term things will be fine!"

FYI, my Dad lost his job last year due to government cuts under the emergency budget and my Mum's job is now threatened as well. If she loses hers, then we're screwed as a family and I probably won't even be able to make it to university this year under the £3k fees. Excuse me for being selfish.

her department is based around further education for those, who, as a result of poverty, lack of information or because of immigration and persecution, were unable to doa degree in the first place.

The government doesn't consider such people worthy of doing degrees, so they do not help my mothers department to cover their costs, and thus, it will most likely have to be cut.

I thought you said it was crucial.

The West, and in particular the US, have been appeasing the devil in the Middle East since WWII. That is the unspoken policy - back whoever is in power at the time, however repulsive the regime, in return for national order, regional stability and not giving Israel too hard a time.

So you don't think its important for the less fortunate to be encouraged into further education? Do you not think it would benefit society? With the rises in tuition fess surely universities will need departments like this to advise people on what support they can receive to go to university or is education just a preserve for the privileged?

Education costs money.
Not everybody is suited to education.
In a world where state spending has to be cut.
The money has to come from the individuals.
It is not about ideological class war.
It is about prudence.

So its about prudence when someone who has the potential to do well on a medical degree who comes from an unemployed family and cannot afford this? Is that what youre suggesting. Oh, tough, because Mum and Dad didn't get jobs youre screwed too mate? I'm not suggesting that everyone is suited to education, however to remove a part of a university that is there to support people from deprived backgrounds at times when purse stings are being tightened is going to make education even more inaccessable for them. Education may cost money, however its also an investment in a better qualified workforce for the future.

Life. Is. Not. Fair?

Case in point : If we assume genetics plays no part, the fact you are intelligent is purely statistical, just like being born to a rich family is statistical.

Way to go with a patronising respose. It would make more sense, especially at times of rising unemployment of giving those who have the potential the opportunity to develop rather than them sat on the dole having cash paid to them for nothing. They are getting something out of the deal and our future workforce will have better qualified employees. Having a department that encourages people and supports them to do this when they may have thought education was inaccessible to them is in my opinion crucial to this.

What I meant was people only take the crazy dictators side in wars if they think he's going to win anyway. If everything is stable, they might back him, but this is hardly stable.