"Things got out of hand & we'd had a few drinks. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets." David Cameron, 1986, recalling his time at Oxford university, vandalising a wine bar with the rest of the Bullingdon Club.
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"Things got out of hand & we'd had a few drinks. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets."
Ooooooooooooh yah .............but it was such a hoot you see.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuugh - Clegg and Cameron just sicken me TBH. It's like being taken back to days of yore (or yah)..............speechless (and a tad too pissed)n to give a coherent response!
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"Things got out of hand & we'd had a few drinks. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets." David Cameron, 1986, recalling his time at Oxford university, vandalising a wine bar with the rest of the Bullingdon Club.
Peter don't you mean the Bullsh*t Club
One of the many things that pisses me off about it is that it's these twazzocks who are calling for people who did the same sort of damage in the protests to get criminal records.
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Peter don't you mean the Bullsh*t Club
Nah, that's the club they all belong to now
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it's these twazzocks who are calling for people who did the same sort of damage in the protests to get criminal records.
Indeed ....................at least there was a reason of sorts behind this protest. What exactly was twat protesting against? Did they use margerine in the dining hall as opposed to butter?
Can't quote on IE PC, but I agree, these people only see things through their own eyes, which are never the 'common eyes'. I went to boarding school in Germany and it was exactly the same. Fortunately I managed to make friends with 'daygirls' and buggered off most of the time. 
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Nah, that's the club they all belong to now
jesus I'm as thick as them, gimme a job
"The students treated the protest like a fun day out (meaning a day without studying).
Why destroy shop windows, attack the police, smash and break everything in their path?? whats that got to do with their cause?...they've lost all sympathy from everyone with a right mind.
ALL students should be made to pay back the costs of the damage their pathetic protest caused, on top of the new tuition fees."
Most of the students protesting did so peacefully - unfortunately most of the damage was caused by the so called "professional protestors". Some students may have been dragged along into it as well and for that reason I strongly disagree with your comments regarding ALL students being made to re-pay the costs. If that were the case anybody who has ever comitted a crime should be made to pay for any damage - and that doesn;t happen so why should it just be introduced for students??
Why destroy shop windows, attack the police, smash and break everything in their path?? whats that got to do with their cause?...they've lost all sympathy from everyone with a right mind.
ALL students should be made to pay back the costs of the damage their pathetic protest caused, on top of the new tuition fees."
Most of the students protesting did so peacefully - unfortunately most of the damage was caused by the so called "professional protestors". Some students may have been dragged along into it as well and for that reason I strongly disagree with your comments regarding ALL students being made to re-pay the costs. If that were the case anybody who has ever comitted a crime should be made to pay for any damage - and that doesn;t happen so why should it just be introduced for students??
My niece works for the Student loans group.She 's on the phones,she has worked there for two years an utterly loathes it.She has an interview next week for another job.She did like it at first,but phone call after phone call of folk complaining etc and giving her abuse has taken it's toll.It's going to get worse now...
.She was a student herself.
Have to be honest - I have never come across an organisation that is mroe annoying than the Students Loan Company though - I'm sure your niece does take a lot of abuse which I am not for one second condoning however at the same time I can completely understand why that may be the case.
Never mind the students getting criminal records - how about some retribution for the copper who cracked that bloke over the head with his truncheon for trying to leave, and putting him in intensive care?
Never mind the students getting criminal records - how about some retribution for the copper who cracked that bloke over the head with his truncheon for trying to leave, and putting him in intensive care?
Were you there? I'm guessing not therefore how do you know that this guy was just "trying to leave"? IMO I'm sure in time we will discover that there was in fact much more to this situation.
Were you there? I'm guessing not therefore how do you know that this guy was just "trying to leave"? IMO I'm sure in time we will discover that there was in fact much more to this situation.
If you say so, Pretty P
If you say so, Pretty
How do you know for a fact that he was just trying to leave??
How do you know for a fact that he was just trying to leave??
The police even tried to stop him getting treatment at the same hospital the injured police were being treated! 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2...d-protester-hospital
How was your holiday, Toid?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2...d-protester-hospital
How was your holiday, Toid?
I don't for certain, any more than you know he wasn't. ïŧŋïŧŋ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11967098
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11967098
How was your holiday, Toid?
It was LOVELY, thanks. Couple of minor niggles with hotel, but overall everything was great. Now I've got goosepimples and a tan - great look!
It was LOVELY, thanks. Couple of minor niggles with hotel, but overall everything was great. Now I've got goosepimples and a tan - great look!
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It was LOVELY, thanks. Couple of minor niggles with hotel, but overall everything was great. Now I've got goosepimples and a tan - great look!
You've missed some lovely sunny weather, here! 
I heard it was gorgeous
Don't worry, when we got back home last Sunday night, we certainly felt the benefit of having switched the central heating off for a fortnight! 
Bliddy hell...
I don't for certain, any more than you know he wasn't. ïŧŋïŧŋ
No you're right I don't but I am not making any statements saying he was just trying to leave - I am not saying that either him or the police were in the wrong - obv one of them was but we will see who in the near future I am sure, My gut feeling however is that the case isn't as cut and dry as his mother is trying to make out in the article to whoch you gave us a link.
No you're right I don't but I am not making any statements saying he was just trying to leave - I am not saying that either him or the police were in the wrong - obv one of them was but we will see who in the near future I am sure, My gut feeling however is that the case isn't as cut and dry as his mother is trying to make out in the article to whoch you gave us a link.
We're all entitled to our opinions, Pretty P. If we differ on whose version of events we prefer (his family and colleagues, or the police) then let's just agree to disagree, eh?
I doubt we will get the whole story. Quite a few people have died over half a century's demonstrating and striking. Guess how many police have been convicted? None.
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David Cameron, 1986, recalling his time at Oxford university, vandalising a wine bar with the rest of the Bullingdon Club.
PC, (just checking in case I'm going a bit gaga!).... Is this the same David Cameron who, in the recent White Paper, is wanting a more equitable education system, to match the best in the world, who points out how unlikely it is for less privileged kids to get on Oxbridge education???
Quite right soopes.
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Whilst I do not condone the violence I think its great that the young people of this country have woken up and raised their voices.
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Quite right soopes.
Col' .....I just can't match the two things up
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Whilst I do not condone the violence I think its great that the young people of this country have woken up and raised their voices.
Bloody hallelujha to tha
Bloody hallelujha to tha
That's it - plot lost, gone..
I was just about to agree with that as well when I thought it looked familiar and realised that I had written it myself 2 pages back
I can't quote at all while I'm on IE.
I'll change over to FF.
Issy, Even I reckognized that and I had a bit of wine last night.
Even I reckognized that and I had a bit of wine last night. 
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I doubt we will get the whole story. Quite a few people have died over half a century's demonstrating and striking. Guess how many police have been convicted? None.
I was watching the programme coppers two weeks ago which was on the EDL protests where something similar to this was mensioned, Police were on the documentary saying that when an incident occurs between an officer and a protester, rarely will the case go to court unless the police know they can win for certain.
Some ridiculous stuff the officers said on there, one guy got hit by an officer for simply sitting down. Another example was how they are arresting someone for swearing at an officer... yet the officer making the arrest is stood there calling the man an "effing this and effing that".
One Officer - unbelievable "I can do what I want, if I feel I can justify it"
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Issy, Even I reckognized that and I had a bit of wine last night.
I have a stinking cold at the moment - I think it is affecting my brain
OH is making an extra hot curry tonight to sweat it out of me hopefully...
The police are no saints.
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I have a stinking cold at the moment - I think it is affecting my brain OH is making an extra hot curry tonight to sweat it out of me hopefully...
Good idea about the curry. Hope you feel better soon.
The police are no saints.
No they're far from it I agree however whenever something like this happens people automatically jump to the defence of the civiliian when in reality we do not know what happened. We do know that protests got out of hand last week and this person was a part of that protest and so far we have only heard from his mother who is obvioully biased.
No they're far from it I agree however whenever something like this happens people automatically jump to the defence of the civiliian when in reality we do not know what happened. We do know that protests got out of hand last week and this person was a part of that protest and so far we have only heard from his mother who is obvioully biased.
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I never got EMA Etc. Etc. Etc.
Me neither....Well, it didn't exist in them there days way back then, but there was a Uni grant, so not entirely disimilar..... I didn't get it, 'cos my parents were just, (only just,) above the threshold... Like yours i guess: they worked hard, supported their kids, went without for them etc. etc.?.. How lucky were we?You imply that most students on EMA just get sozzled on their ÂĢ30 a week and that most folk who are long term unemployed are there by choice... implication being that they are all layabouts, (my words not yours.) I really don't believe that to be true, yes there will be the odd ones who are, but they are not, imo, by any means, in the majority.
Like you, I always worked, (as did most of the folk in my position and as do most of the students I know now).... Half the time I didn't know whether I was pulling pints, serving pizzas and burgers, measuring someone's inside leg, working with kids, doing other voluntary work with young people or the elderly, studying, or god forbid, partying and getting off my head
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I thought it looked familiar and realised that I had written it myself 2 pages back
OOPS..will read back
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I'm sure your niece does take a lot of abuse which I am not for one second condoning however at the same time I can completely understand why that may be the case.
Takes opportunity to agree with PP for once 
Never mind the students getting criminal records - how about some retribution for the copper who cracked that bloke over the head with his truncheon for trying to leave, and putting him in intensive care?
I hadn't heard about that! I saw pics in the paper of peeps with blood running down their faces 
I hadn't heard about that! I saw pics in the paper of peeps with blood running down their faces