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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Its just not so. We will be financially worse off under a Labour government that we are now.



When you were a youngster, didn't you think about hourly pay rates and more money in your pocket full stop?
I would love my kids to have free uni/further ed fees as I did. Lucky me, that I wasn't burdened with having to pay back my education! why shouldn't they expect the same?

Idealistically it shouldn't be a problem, but realistically it is. If the economy wasn't in such a crisis then maybe everything could be free but the world is changing with an ever increasing population and a much larger proportion of young people going to university than ever before making that more and more unattainable.

Services such as the NHS, social care and junior and secondary education should get priority as they benefit everyone. Free uni fees mainly benefit the individual who will likely have a much higher earning potential and thus better lifestyle in the future.

That is a choice I believe comes under the remit of personal responsibility and should be personally financed not state funded. As long as there is a good and fair loan system in place that enables everyone who achieves the grades to go to uni then I think that is a fair system for all. No one has the right to expect a free state funded uni education anymore.