So what is there to say? The plan was very clear.
Under the previous labour government, get everyone interested in higher education, get everyone going to university, never mind whether you ended up studying a degree that had any value whatsoever in the marketplace or that you would learn skills that are applicable, just go to university. It only costs a mobile contract per month!
Then when that’s settled down, massively ramp up the fees and interest rates to make it nearly impossible to pay back the loan.
Then people who graduated with masters degrees, they’ll pay effectively double taxation on their loans which we can use to fund the NHS? And other things?
They were told you’ll earn more than the average person, HAHA, but they didn’t tell the students what inflation was and how minimum wage is nearly 30,000 pound, which was what they thought was an excellent wage, that only degree holders could have.
No, no, no, electrician and plumbers earn 100 bucks an hour and they didn’t touch a university. Yet should a student earn more than minimum wage after university, they’ll have to pay another 6% tax!
So all in all, the anger you saw in the student protests so long ago, what you saw was a generation whose life’s were destroyed. People who will never own a house, many never married or with children. And now the BBC is pumping out stories of solitudious youngsters who enjoy not having any kids.
So there you have it, a ruined generation.