Students - His 'n' her tents in Trafalgar Square

[silverfox]

I see some 'students' are setting up another tent city in Trafalgar Square. those tents look like a job lot. I wonder who paid for them?

[StraferJack]

why would you wonder that silverfox?

if they have jobs and paid for themselves you will ask what they are protesting about

and if they don't have jobs you can dismiss them as feckless

why start another thread on what is essentially the same topic

[Huguenot]

Matching tents...

http://www.channel4.com/media/images/Channel4/c4-news/2011/NOV/09/tents_trafalgar_screengrabk.jpg

I guess they could all have free university education like the 70s if they reduced the number of students from the current 2,000,000 to the 1,000,000 there were in the 70s.

So which half of them are going to go home and get a job?

[silverfox]

Fair point.

however there is a third option here - that more sinister forces are paying the bills to spread this 'global' movement.

[StraferJack]

Just for perspective, I know of a global bank moving outside zone 1 in London

Roughly 80% of the workforce appear to view this as a reason to leave

Several people on 3 figure salaries expect someone else to pick up the extra tube costs or else they will leave for that reason alone

I know who I have more sympathy with

[Huguenot]

The march is organised by the "National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts" who favour "radical direct action" (that mostly means violent protest, so we shall see).

It's funded by the RMT.

So you can thank Bob Crow and his thugs for those tents.

[Loz]

Personally, I'd condense most of the three year uni courses down to two. I doubt many of the courses really need to be three years. That would save everyone 33% straight up.

[peckhamboy]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Just for perspective, I know of a global bank

> moving outside zone 1 in London

>

> Roughly 80% of the workforce appear to view this

> as a reason to leave

>

> Several people on 3 figure salaries expect someone

> else to pick up the extra tube costs or else they

> will leave for that reason alone

>

> I know who I have more sympathy with

To be fair, if I was on a 3 figure salary, I think I'd struggle to pay for travel myself. Or rent, food, clothing...

[taper]

It's the Winter of discount tents.

[womanofdulwich]

>:D

[MrBen]

In the City right now, it's getting dark and helicopters are drowning out the conversation in our office. They'll be getting cold and tired now so expect proceedings to kick off shortly.....whether its a few windows smashed or a full scale plastic bullet extravaganza remains to be seen.

[Otta]

Loz Wrote:

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> Personally, I'd condense most of the three year

> uni courses down to two. I doubt many of the

> courses really need to be three years. That would

> save everyone 33% straight up.

Agreed. First year doesn't even count towards your degree a lot of the time, and it would mean a lot of people would drop out pretty quickly, which probably wouldn't new bad thing either.

[Voyageur]

taper Wrote:

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> It's the Winter of discount tents.

VERY good http://emotloader.hu/emoticons/happy/Content_8%20-%20emotloader.hu.gif

[Annette Curtain]

They'll all be watching Fresh Meat later.

Don't worry.

Nette(tu)

[Jeremy]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> They'll all be watching Fresh Meat later.

Really? I think the main audience is those of us in our 30s/40s...