Angry Rant #15: Let's start a Riot!

Those bloody protesters in London! They keep on causing havoc and kicking the Royal's Car as they were driving past. What hooligans! Those young whipper snappers just keep stirring up trouble and making the riot police have to work. For Shame...

Death To Shelbyville!

Oh.

Wait. What?

There was no actual coverage of the REASON these University Students were protesting? There was a reason?

The violence started after a vote by the Coalition Government to raise the basic tuition fees by three times the amount that they are now by 2012.  If that were to happen in Australia, I know I would be protesting my $100k+ fees. But it seems that the violence has overshadowed the reasons behind the protest itself. In fact, a news report on Channel Nine (not by Channel Nine, but with a London Correspondent) questioned the British Home Secretary Theresa May, whether or not Camilla, the wife of Prince Charles was "poked with a stick".

The object in question.

Poked with a Stick - This question was ACTUALLY asked. A respectable journalist thought that this was newsworthy. Why were they even driving through a riot anyway?!

Besides the fact that I couldn't care less about the Royals, pointless dumb, idiotic sub-stories like this distract people from the facts and the reasons behind the protest. The thing that really pissed me off is the fact that these "politicians" who voted FOR the rise in fees, never had to pay tuition fees themselves - that's all paid for by the English taxpayer i.e the Uni Students who work their arses off to make a living, and will now have more fees to pay. If that doesn't piss you off the most in this story, then nothing else will.

If I was an English University Student, I would be doing the exact same thing.

Don't believe the Lies and Spin.