Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
It's counter productive though, isn't it? The students lost a lot of support in the general population with, what, three riots in a row? This coupled with the fact that everyone in the country is going to be affected by the cuts, they have just made themselves look like stupid, selfish brats. When it's estimated that 35000 pensioners might freeze to death this winter because they have to choose between eating and heating, the rioting students look more like complete bastards.

On top of that, a more inarticulate, thick and selfish bunch of onanists I have yet to come across. I don't know about university, some of these clowns need to learn how to speak English. Pillocks.
While the rest of us roll over and get shafted by the cuts you criticise the ones who go out and make their voice heard over broken promises? Sure the violence may have lost them some public support, but lets face it that public support wouldn't have helped their cause either since the public as a whole is cowed and apathetic, with no real political voice. If you have a cause that you think is worth a damn then better to be out there shouting about it than at home tut-tutting IMO.

I fail to see how the possiblity of pensioners suffering due to the cuts makes the students look like "stupid, selfish brats". The two are not connected, you make it sound like as case of cause and effect, or of one or the other. In fact, as it turns out, we have neither. However, at least the students fought their corner as best they could, whilst nobody fought for the pensioners.