'Demo 2012'

Hopefully using this as a title will mean it gets a lot of views, thanks to the wonders of the Google search engine. However, I would take this opportunity to point out this blog post is actually about that which the title alludes to.

Last year a good few thousand students took to the streets of London, the Capital City on our Nation, a City that it is fair to say much of the world look's to, and is often seen in global news as a shining example of western civilization. London is one of the most successful cities in the world, so it is only natural that any protesters would use this location to rally as a good publicity stunt. I have no issue with free speech, in so long as it is done in moderation, and in an orderly fashion.

Of course, the NUS will tell you that it was intended to be orderly, but I disagree. It would take a total and utter moron to allow this to happen, by accident, on a rally you organised:

Just to clarify here, at which point was incinerating buildings supposed to be considered peaceful? At what point in the grand democratic peaceful NUS plan did it read ''Burn the Capital'. Maybe the plan was rather basic, and read as follows:

Plan for Rally 2011

1. Go to London on free bus travel, paying congestion charges and clogging the atmosphere with toxic fumes, regardless of our 'Green' policies.
2. Get out of buses, and have lunch paid for using our government grants.
3. Burn London
4. PROFIT

This plan, as succinct and concise as it is, was not very successful, as this year, they are going to go and do it all again! This probably shows to a human with a basic intelligence level that last years protests did not work. In fact, I remember England being a laughing stock for a good few weeks, as the rest of the world looked at our great nation, and saw that the people in higher education didn't like the tragic realization that they actually had to pay for it.

Its a really bizarre concept that this:

Actually has to be:

A) Earned,

B) Spent in return for other things (like a university education that will give you a massive boost into the job market)

I quite obviously get a lot of grief for going to a private school, as I had to pay for it, and that makes me posh. However, I remind all the students thinking of striking, you CHOSE to go into paid education (Uni) I was PLACED there by my parents. You CHOSE to have to pay for your education  so do not be surprised when the prices go up.

You cannot sit in your homes and rant about how the privileged should pay more tax, and then with your next breath get cross when your fee's go up. The very second you start paying for education  for a privileged that will advance you in the workplace, you fall into the Privileged bracket, and should be paying more as-well.

By all means, go out and protest, its your right in this nation. But the very second you start turning violent, you loose all right to have your views heard in my opinion. Here's some numbers for you:

5 Deaths,

16+ members of the public injured,

186 police officers, 3 PCSO's, and 5 Police Dogs injured.

So, before you all run of up to London and go 'on a march' look at the facts. Your better of paying your fee's in the current way anyway, its all in installments, so its cheaper by the week. Next time you think about going, look at the numbers before you riot and then call 'Police Brutality' last time 16 members of the public, who where throwing petrol bombs at the police where injured, compared to 186 police officers.

Anyone who goes to this rally is in my opinion an utter moron, who only wants to cause havoc. 

Next time you think riots would be a good idea:

Just look at that, and tell me what your doing is correct.

This is Aaron Newbury, one of the very few students who appears capable of using their brain to realize that rioting is not the answer.

Queue Jumping

This, is a line of people, otherwise known in the modern and civilized world as a Queue. Up until a few days ago I firmly believed that in England this concept of forming a line was sacred and holy. However, I was proven wrong when a few days ago as I stood in Starbucks holding a sandwich and a fist full of money a group of young women decided to prance past me in the queue, and smile and wave as they did so. The queue was long, but nobody else noticed, as they where males who decided that as the people who had decided to jump in front of us where female, they would not respond. 

This was not the case with me, and my inner posh fury bubbled up to it's highest level: Severe Indignation. I looked at the people and cut their childish giggling short as I erupted into the following speel:

"Excuse me ladies, but in case you have not noticed, there is a very long queue here, which you have just jumped. Are you aware how queues work? No? I guessed not. Allow me to explain. When you see a line of people, what you do, is get to the back of that line and wait, like intellgient human beings, worthy of being at a University. You do not lumber forwards, smiling and waving as you do so, in an attempt to form a dis-organised mob at the front of this shop."

One of the women-folk looked at me, and said "F*** off" this made me even more angry, and I replied:

"You are really not doing yourself any favors here. In response to a well worded argument  you tell me to F*** off, you really are lowest form of human life. Know, on behalf of everyone else in this queue, a concept you have yet to appreciate, take your things, and go. Come back later, when you have managed to develop something above the size of a pea inside that thing you call a skull"

Several members of the queue started to clap, as the group of horrified ladies left Starbucks to go and develop brains, one of them even apologized to me when they saw me later on in the day.

Mission accomplished ladies and gentlemen.