General Election 2017 | Cabinet reshuffle: Hunt re-appointed Health Secretary for record third time

How do you intend to vote in the 2017 General Election if eligible?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 80 14.5%
  • Labour

    Votes: 322 58.4%
  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 57 10.3%
  • Green

    Votes: 20 3.6%
  • SNP

    Votes: 13 2.4%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 29 5.3%
  • Independent

    Votes: 3 0.5%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 11 2.0%
  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 14 2.5%

  • Total voters
    551
  • Poll closed .
Anyone debating this who doesn't stress this point is actively dissuading people from studying and should be ashamed of themselves. The problem with the loan system is that it is not enough to live on, and the interest rates charged afterwards are unfair, not that the system exists in the first place.
That may be a problem, but some people don't understand how the system even works.
 
Jeremy stumbling over the terrorism question here... Doesn't look good.
Possibly a minority view but Rudd's coming out well from this, her only competition on the right is Nuttall who is atrocious.
It's all such a mess it's hard to tell. You're probably right.
 
Finally Corbyn saying the Tories have also repeatedly voted against anti-terror laws.
 
Anyone debating this who doesn't stress this point is actively dissuading people from studying and should be ashamed of themselves. The problem with the loan system is that it is not enough to live on, and the interest rates charged afterwards are unfair, not that the system exists in the first place.
im not sure thats completely true, ive got mates who are at uni in london right now and living pretty comfortably, a lot of them are better of then people i know working full time
 
I agree. To be honest, I don't agree with scrapping tuition fees. The current system of payback is fine, but the fee does put many people off. Simply reducing fees would have been a good enough incentive, I think.

I went to university the year they were raised 9k and some kids didn't apply to UCAS as they thought they couldn't afford it. The fact you don't have to pay it back until you're earning over a certain amount meant nothing to some people unfortunately.

The future we are moving towards, education is everything. There should be no deterrents to further education and fees are a big deterrent.
 
im not sure thats completely true, ive got mates who are at uni in london right now and living pretty comfortably, a lot of them are better of then people i know working full time

Not off the loan alone mate. If they appear that way they are either getting extra money from the family, working, or running up extra debts from banks and the like, which will really cost in the long run.
 
The future we are moving towards, education is everything. There should be no deterrents to further education and fees are a big deterrent.
True, but there are also some who deliberately misunderstand it in order to make a misguided political point, not caring that they're putting off kids applying for courses.
I agree we need to tackle these deterrents, though I think we should go about it in a gradual way (or some other initiative), rather than just abolishing the fees in one go.
 
Glad to see our arms deals coming up, that's going to be a damaging line for the Tories.
 
Finally someone pulls the Saudi arms deal into this!
 
Wish they didn't cut off Rudd when she said "Saudi has the right..". That was getting fun!