Student Tuition Fees
I don't often repeat things from written by Lib/Dem students, but I do think they have a point with this reminder of who else U-turned on Student Tuition Fees (and far more times than Nick Clegg did)
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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you could tell a mile off who was a full time student, and who was not. it was sort of eerie.
I remember one major socialist telling me all sorts of "great things" i was kind of in the half listening mode. they then asked what are you studying? I said "physics" to which the answer was amazing. "Oh well that explains it. So out of touch. I am doing Media, i want to make a difference." erm ok
You have to wonder what on earth went on in what passed for a mind of someone who could make such a comment.
Presumably he or she had little if any conception of the difference made to the lives of human beings by physicists like Archimedes, Pascal, Volta, Doppler, Fermi, Oppenheim, or Rutherford. But without them, most of the media he or she was studying could not exist.