Student Protests in the UK

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Emigrating to Canada is very difficult though. Unless you're a genuine qualified coder or programer or whatever, they're not going to be in a rush to grant you a visa.

Even if you are, is the games industry in Canada large enough? Afterall, if you're contesting vacancies with Canadian natives then you'll be refused.

Fair enough if it was brain surgery or mechanical engineering and the country was in dire need of people but video games aren't a necessity, so it'd be tricky.

Unless you went to study there on a student visa, but then you're faced with costs that'll likely be greater than they are here :P
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Heh, they've even gone for Prince Charles now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11954333

Just look at the fear in his eyes at being confronted by so many common people.
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I knew this would happen.
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I'm disappointed, but not too surprised at the result - although only half of the Lib Dem MPs actually backed the bills in the end, mostly front-benchers wanting to keep their jobs.
It frustrates me the number of times the Coalition MPs insisted that graduates will be 'better off' because they will pay less per month, neglecting to remind us that it will typically take at least 4x longer to pay it off, possibly at commercial rates of interest.
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I'm not even going to comment. If I start, it will turn into a rage-fuelled essay on how the majority of the retards who decided to attack Government buildings, high street shops and the fucking King-in-waiting probably don't have enough brain cells to rub together to even get to Uni, nevermind worry about how the holy hell they were going to pay for it.

I cannot condone their behaviour, but now I can't condone the protests either. It has been passed through Parliament. Deal with it.
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They were a disgrace to the cause and all that history will remember of them is as a group of rioters. Well done to the idiots who took it much too far, you've make me ashamed to call myself a student.
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To be fair, the majority of people who caused the violence were only there to cause chaos and had no interest in the student protest itself.

I'm proud of my university. They all protested peacefully.
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The protests need to stop now. Rioters are piggy backing on them, and I think the message has got across, peacefully and otherwise.
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The protests aren't the problem though, when they are carried out peacefully. All across the UK, students have been staging protests and sit-ins and I've not heard of any violence; the violence all seems to be in London.

I think they have the right to peacefully protest as much as they like. The issue is just with the violent minority. Not much you can do about that, though.

Not all protesting is bad. In Newcastle, we had a English Defence League march not too long ago, so a human rights group also decided to march on the same day to protest against them. Despite what is a very sensitive issue, there was no violence whatsoever. It can be done.
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Yeah that thing EDL thing happened in Leicester too. There was violence. And then the insecure council decided to spend our money on some half arsed concert the next day to convince ourselves "we aren't racist at all - look here's billy Bragg to prove it!" £100,00 the police and concert costs came to in the end.

I think that history will look back on these protests as justified though. After all, the politicians that passed this bill all got their educations for free. It is the old robbing from the young, and when our generation is a bit older hopefully that will be how the story goes.
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