Students again, this time it's serious.....

There must be something in this country that stinks if such a large number of discontented youth have found it necessary to take to the streets. Students are merely half grown adults at the idealistic age when they suddenly realise that the world isn't exactly as they would like it to be.
This generation grew up mainly during the cossetted but corrupt Newlabour years when everything was promised, everything spent, nothing achieved, and their parents could have it all, and did. A golden horizon was rolled out before them, and not surprisingly they bought into this scenario. Sadly, in a way, for them, they have never experienced struggle, felt responsibility, or learnt the value of anything. They move into the adult world and learn for the first time that the structure of society is inequable. Huge remnants of the privileged ruling classes remain, and unfortunately these remnants are pretty well represented throughout the present government, throughout journalism, the judiciary etc.
We live in a multicultural society whether we like it or not, but the government, who were responsible for this have never made sufficient allowance for the fact, and now society is riven by the joint massive inequalities of education, money AND race.
Our leaders are so predictable, pronouncing vehemently against the students, (sorry, 'young thugs')- "we will clap them in irons, string them up, mow them down" they cry
as they hold hands with their best pals the police. Not a moments reflection on the reasons we got here in the first place, and the fact they are mainly to blame!
Extraordinarily into this melee sail Prince Charles in full evening dress and a bejewelled Camilla, lit up for all the world to see in their full on Bentley - or was it a Rolls Royce? A veritable 'Louis and his Antoinette' moment!
There is a hidden stink in this country. The students are merely the symptom, not the disease.

Selfish students have nothing to say....

Students, despite the cold weather are out messing up the streets again. Born to a generation of spoilt parents, these students think the world and everything in it belongs to them. If they can't get what they want they're going to behave like the spoilt brats they are. Scweam and scweam, stamp their feet and scweam again for it. If only they were demonstrating for something worthwhile!
There ARE the most terrible injustices in this big bad world, plenty of injustices to demonstrate about, but it ain't student fees! Students demonstrate for themselves alone. They should start looking outside themselves, get things in perspective, look at the bigger picture, start caring and thinking about others who are really really suffering.

Selfish students with nothing to say

When  students have something worthy to protest about, then I'll support them.  Students reflect nowadays an innate selfishness.  They think the world should revolve around them and their likes and dislikes. When was it NOT hard to find your way in an adult dominated world?  If they were demonstrating about man's inhumanity to man, man's  ignorant big- headed  attitude to other animals then I'd be happy to lend my support.  Who are they demonstrating for? - themselves.  They are not starving, they are not living on the streets, they are not being cruelly treated. So what are they complaining about?  There are plenty who ARE starving, plenty who live on the streets, and plenty of people and animals who are being cruelly treated. Why have they never taken to the streets and complained on their behalf? In France thousands of people took time off their work to demonstrate against the raising of retirement age from 58/60 to 62.  What a cheek! They also belong to the selfish generation who believe everything 'out there' should be at their disposal, at their behest. It is entirely probable that after the student rally yesterday most of the partakers will take to the pubs where they will spend the money they say they haven't got on -  booze.