Ticking Boxes

Recently I have been drooling over a 2008 Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead, which is currently for sale, it is a fantastic colour and a bargain at £245,000. I imagine what it must be like to cruise around the coast in it on a sunny day, how great it would be to pull up outside some posh restaurant in it at night with all the lights reflecting in its gleaming paintwork. It is of course nothing more than a dream the bottom line is I can't afford it; I couldn't afford the insurance let alone the car. Come to think of it I couldn't afford to put fuel in it in order for me to get it out of my garage, let alone the insurance to cover anything that might happen once I got it out of my garage. Thankfully no one has passed a law saying I have to own one of these vehicles, nor is anyone holding a gun to my head making me buy one. So I am free to carry on dreaming of what may have been, whilst I quietly get on with the rest of my life in the real world. If the UK news is to believed though, sadly the UK student doesn't agree. Like me they have a dream, a dream of university education. Again like me no one has passed a law yet saying they must have a university education and as far as I know no one is holding a gun to their heads telling them they must have a university education. Also like me, again if the news is right most of them cannot afford to have a university education or simply do not want to pay what is being proposed as fees. But unlike me they are not prepared to quietly get on with life, they seem to think that they can have what they want for free or at a cost which they want to pay for it.

StartFragmentLesson number one, the world doesn't work like that, you pay the going rate or don't have it. There is no chance of the current owner of my Rolls Royce selling it to me for what I want to pay for it.

We have been told that fewer and fewer student actually get jobs when they leave university so shouldn't these people who don't want to pay, get out and start looking for a job. We have been also told that this year 2010, 200,000 potential university students failed to get positions in universities due to over demand. So those that don't like the cost get out and make way for some of the others who couldn't get in.

On the thorny issue of students and their bloody fees I think its full marks to the government, not something I usually say, but you give me another organisation or system that says, “look here's some cash get on with things and you can pay us back much later, once you have got yourself on your feet”. No it is quiet clear to me, students make the choice to be students no one makes them, so they should pay whatever the going rate for university happens to be. Lets face it, some of this great unwashed not only want to set the rate they should pay for their further education, but will one day use their university education to get high paid jobs in under performing banks, that cock up your accounts, give bad investment advise and then demand massive bonus payments, paid from tax payers cash that had to be pumped into the bank to keep it afloat. How do you feel about that then?

No its clear if they don't like it get out and start living in the real world, if they go on the rampage they should be arrested and thrown in prison, that will give them a more rounded education for sure. In fact one of the things Nelson Mandela said about his years of imprisonment was that prison became their university where they studied and prepared for government. Hang on this is not a bad idea; it actually tickets a few boxes. Wreck a building in the name of protest you get arrested, box one ticked for law-abiding people everywhere. Go to prison as a result of your conviction, another boxed ticked for law-abiding people. Receive a further education, boxed ticked for students. The further education you receive is free, massive box ticked for students. Brilliant, next problem the unemployed, I'll come back to you on that.

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