Thread: Students Rioting in London.
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Old 14-12-2010, 21:30   #681
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Re: Students Rioting in London.
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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
Well they've clearly influenced policy - on personal allowances, for example, so what's your point again? Influencing policy isn't quite the same as being able to dictate policy after all and they at least being in coalition affords them an excuse which Blair and Brown can't rely on when it comes to delivering on pre-election promises..
Of course you are correct, however, the fees pledge was rather fundamental to their election manifesto. In fact it was what many students and their parents believed when they voted for them. But their ability to influence policy comes not in the policy making meetings, but at the divisions. They should have had the courage of their convictions and voted against the government. It made them look as if they were more concerned over their positions of perceived power, than they were about their honour and integrity.
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