University students protest against increase in fees. Clashes in front of the British Parliament
LONDON - Tens of thousands of students and university researchers have shown in central London to protest against higher education reform plan that includes a dramatic increase in fees (the roof from currently 3 thousand pounds 'year, and in some cases to six thousand, nine) and the cutting of public funding. In front of the Conservative Party headquarters in Millbank Tower, on the Thames, within walking distance nuovaTate gallery, dozens of protesters set fire to the posters that bore, broken glass, and broke into the lobby, which also brought out some chairs. The police intervened, and some staff were injured as they tried to drag out of the building's activists who were lying on the floor. Some of them were able to reach the roof, where they threw objects at officers deployed at the entrance. Several protesters were arrested. At Westminster, about 200 students were able to cross the barriers that had been placed and staged a sit-in in front of parliament.
As explained by one of the 400 students at Oxford who arrived in London today, David Barclay, who is president of Union University where they studied several of the leaders of this government, "this is the day when politicians will learn that, even if they forget their promises, students do not do it. " And are the Liberal Democrats, who in their election campaign had promised to oppose tax increases, and have collected a lot of votes among academics, the real target of the protest which involved more than 50 thousand students today (according to the organizers) from from around the country. "The students of Oxford ensure that you do not put aside to see more funds for education decimated all'appesantimento to assist the next generation of students with unsustainable debt, we will not be part of our university and becomes once again a haven for the privileged elite, "he Barclay said.
The president of the National Union of Students, Aaron Porter, has announced that students will fight as substitutes to allow elections in the constituencies won by the Liberal Democrat MPs - who were deployed during the campaign against the increases in fees in the wake of what- had proposed in a speech last June, the vice premier, and libdem leader, Nick Clegg, to authorize the re-election polling places where the deputy had been charged with a serious problem. Already starting on Monday will begin to collect signatures in the district of Clegg's Sheffield Hallam, even though the law does not yet exist. Immediately, the Nus has condemned the violent actions of 'rogue protesters "who have put at risk the peaceful protest.
(from The Stampa.it)
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