by a majority of twenty-bloody-one

[such_heights]

Parliament voted tonight to treble the cap on tuition fees, meaning universities can charge up to £9000 a year.

Comments

[themadlurker]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[glass_icarus]

... D:

[mresundance]

D:

[thefairymelusine]

Fuck

[topaz_eyes]

Holy fuck, that's terrible. That's just--insane.

[miss_haitch]

D:
I was watching it on the BBC website, and just ... ugh.

[nixwilliams]

D: D: D:

[snorkackcatcher]

Yip-de-bloody-do. Apparently this means that if you make the minimum amount needed to start paying the money back it comes to about 9% of your salary (according to a Tory MP's staffer I randomly found myself talking to last night). But of course if you still haven't paid it off by the time you're 50 it gets cancelled ... It shouldn't be beyond the wit of politicians to devise something better than this. Oh hang on, what am I saying?

[xenakis]

Yikes.

Come to Canada, you guys. We're slightly less moronic about those things (for now, at least...).

[forthwritten]

I was in the Parliament Square kettle when the news filtered through. Absolutely gutted.

[gorgeousnerd]

DDD:

[st_aurafina]

It's bloody awful. Not that we're much better off in Australia with HECS. It's still a horrible moment when you realise your country only wants the wealthy to have access to education.

[keieeeye]

What the fuck was in the water yesterday? No, really.

[fizzyblogic]

There is not enough D: IN THE WORLD.

[(Anonymous)]

I really do not see how they can claim that they don't want to exclude anyone from going to uni when they do this.
*facepalm* at the Tories. :/

(bluekiwibubble from lj, but I don't know if there's any way on here I can comment with it showing it's me..)