Protesting

OK so many of you may have heard about the protests by students across the country today, sadly i was busy , but next tuesday there is another planned and i can go so could you guys think of a good slogan for my sign, it has to do with budget cuts/ nick clegg or just be random and funny.

I have no idea what this is about, what are we protesting? Who's protesting? Is there going to be cookies?

Against rising tuition fee's, the scrapping of EMA, cutting teachers funding by 80%, and removal of all funding for art courses etc.. Students and teachers across the UK ( we also have the support of socialists, commies, and trade unions, aswell as many parents) yes there shall be cookies

Here in Portugal there is also a General Strike... I had no classes today thanks to that

Well it was mainly walk outs, yes students who are complaining about education costs are, walking out of their current education, only in britain

leewatson1 wrote:Well it was mainly walk outs, yes students who are complaining about education costs are, walking out of their current education, only in britain

Here they're complaining about those news economic austerity plans made by the government due to the crisis, we PIGS countries seem to be in...

Yea that, how about for my sign saying "Where's the cheese gromit?"

Or one saying ''I'm here for the cookies. I don't really care about these worthless, poor lazy tossers, they can go fuck themselves with the money they don't have''. Bet the rest of the crowd would love that.

You sir have earned a + for that post

I don't think so, come on seriously im actually supporting something i believe in for once, one guy had im here for the clunge (clunge is a british slang word for vagina) and another had i'm so angry i made a sign.

leewatson1 wrote:Against rising tuition fee's, the scrapping of EMA, cutting teachers funding by 80%, and removal of all funding for art courses etc.. Students and teachers across the UK ( we also have the support of socialists, commies, and trade unions, aswell as many parents) yes there shall be cookies

Are they going to scrap EMA? I didn't realise that. Cutting teacher's funding by 80%? Removal of all funding for art courses???

Yes, as a uni student I know some of this, but are those facts true?

I didn't walk out of my lecture. Partly because as a first year, noone cares if I'm there or not.

@PIGS: Bah humbug!

Yes theese facts are true, they were on BBC news the other day, i'll try and find the report.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11839216 roughly half way down is what where protesting about.

I've denied your event on FB for two reasons, one being I'm not a student and two, I'm in Canada, I guess it's the thought that counts

It was a script to invite all on my friends i didn't expect you to join. But it has some infomation about why where doing it on there

Well it didn't say about the art courses, but that's probably true. And woaow at there being a cut of 80% on university teachers' funds. That's just crazy.

What do you mean by funds?

Well, the amount of money the government gives to the universities for them to spend on teaching. However, I expect the extra money students will have to pay will cover this. I know our government is stingy, but I do expect them to budget things properly.

Yes! Make the poor students pay more! Brilliant idea!

Plus all these people had there university education paid for by the goverment.

I presume you mean the people who are now forming this plan? But they spend so much on going to Eton, they couldn't possibly have been expected to pay another extortionate amount of money!

Here they don't really do budget cuts, just continually increase tuition costs.

Ok so i'm making two signs on large pieces of card one saying "i sold my sign to buy books" the other "clegg and cameron stole my cookies" and a sad face

Hey, I didn't steal your cookies, I swear!

Haha not you your awsome cameron i'm talking about douche cameron

Oh, ok, that's good

Ok so the second day of protesting starts tomorrow, i hope rrps and vedic could join the rally starts at 12, at greys monument (newcastle) BTW if your teachers try and stop you which they shouldn't you are allowed to leave, they leave when there union asks them to, so you leave when your union asks you to! VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man the cannons! er..I mean, take up your pickets for a peaceful..um..rally...with guns...

I know lets make fire!!! then throw it at people.... I know how to make napalm. heh heh heh

And molotov cocktails, yummy

yay! fire is fun! and then we can roast marshmallows!!!!

And have smores, I'm beginning to like this protesting thing already!

yea! we could also use some of the signs and make a spit roast!

And then eat chicken and babies..err turkeys...or something

Ill pass on the babys. turkey though! nom nom nom!

tURKEY FLAVOURED BABIES NOMNOMNOM! PLUS T-MINUS 2 hours