Student riots

I'm glad that Prince Charles and his horse got caught up on the
student riots in London yesterday. The royal family are so isolated
from the real world that I wonder if they even know how much a loaf of
bread costs now. I suspect Charles was horrified to be mixing with the
commoners. The government can't make the correlation between tripling
the cost of a university education, and students rioting in the
streets of the capital. So much so that Cameron said that it wasn't
the special forces or police's fault that Charles' car was attacked,
but the students. Umm. No. The students attacked the car - yes. It was
the police and special forces fault that they allowed that to happen.
I suspect that two things will ultimately come of this. Those who are
rich will still go to university. Those that are not will either not
go at all, or move oversees to find a country that still values
education. This will accelerate the brain drain from the UK leading to
an even dumber society. Still - they can drown their sorrows with the
24 hour pubs.

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