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Support for students is very strong

The old control of the media is not enough to get hegemonic control of society in the context of the new student risings.

Violence! Wanton vandalism, windows smashed, Churchills statue urinated on, the Treasury smashed, coppers hospitalised, Cenotaph attacked, Royals attacked. Every icon of the establishment defilled, but the stale capitalist state propaganda just is not working the way it is supposed to.

The shock horror lazy journalism is not leading to simplistic cap doffing awe anymore. The paper of the retired establishment, The Daily Mail no less provides the clue. The DAILY MAIL website that shows 76% of Daily Mail readers polled supported the students AFTER THE LATEST RIOTS!

They frenetically rub the old lamp to get the time honoured response. 'Miiror mirror on the wall who are the naughtiest of all' ask the journalists rhetorically, but the unexpected answer is definately NOT the students. This is similar to the unexpected result of the 'Who Rules Britian' election Ted Heath set up in 1974 (the Unions or the Tories) when Labour won.

Every old strategem of the police/press fails to work, 'outsiders, hijackers, thugs, Latvians'. It used to turn opinion but now it is not working any longer.
They are desperate, the old certainties do not work and this is before most of the Trade unions get involved in anti cuts protest too. The great British traditions of working class liberty are back with a vengeance. Tweeting is allowing instant communication of the truth and is fortifying rebellion, no longer do the 'divide and rule' establishment tactics work so easily.

76% SUPPORT THE STUDENTS, the violence rather than discouraging and 'alienating public opinion' energises and electrifies the resistance movements.

SOURCE -
I checked this just now & the EVIDENCE is HERE, follow the link;
Do you still support the students after these riots?
* Yes 76%
* No 24%

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337315/TUITION-FEES-VOTE-PROTEST-Thugs-deface-Cenotaph-urinate-Churchill.html

Mayday
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cynical

14.12.2010 14:02

wow!
daily mail- it must be true!
it's an accurate representation of a large part of the population- cos they say it is............
sorry, but come on.........

anrko

May be right

14.12.2010 14:11

but your evidence is no good, Daily mail made that poll to give a result against students, the question is biased since the readers didn't support students in the first place, so a load of students went on there to vote the other way and fuck up their plan, success, but not public support.

Are you joking

14.12.2010 17:13

when you say

'The great British traditions of working class liberty are back with a vengeance.'

These student riots are so middle class. It's the middle class who now realise that they are going to have to pay their own way at 'uni' as they like to call it, instead of getting the mainly non-university working class to pay much of the cost for them. Let's face it, most universities are just finishing schools for the children of the middle class these days, almost regardless of their ability.

Daddy and mummy will have to wait another year or two for a new Volvo or that holiday home in France but tht's hardly a reason to take to the streets to demand other peoples money for your education.

Pete

fuck off pete.

14.12.2010 19:25

everywhere we have the same shit, but i did not expect it here. go home! we pay enough already. people just cant seem to understand that sutdents VALUE THEIR EDUCATION. honestly, without a large number of the population a product of higher education then what the fuck is this country going to do? produce stuff? dont make me laugh.

the anonny mouse

England Expects...

14.12.2010 19:29

Every young chap and chapesse to do their fuckin' duty fuckin' sharpish

Ducting

You are living in the past, Pete

15.12.2010 03:20

Students may have been mainly middle class in the 1970s but that stereotype went out the window years ago. I assume you are an old codger who is out of touch with modern society (or just a troll). The number of students is a far greater proportion of the population than the middle class of the same age, to make an obvious point. Many more people continue in education these days than they used to. It's a useful way for governments to make the unemployment figures seem lower, for one thing.

And the Daily Mail poll - well, these aren't worth the paper they aren't printed on anyway - they are so easily manipulated by anyone with a small amount of computer knowledge: they aren't a representative sample of society, and there is not much to stop people voting multiple times.

Having said that, I'm sure a lot of less intelligent Daily Mail readers treat them as gospel, so it could be good to go along with the charade and troll their polls. Good to troll their forums too and make or vote up anarchisty comments.

anon

Poll 75% support students 25% don't

15.12.2010 12:19

innit

pollster

Daily Mail

17.12.2010 14:58

It's refreshing to see the Daily Mail quoted on this site. Any port in a storm I suppose when you need some good news.

It's not hard to see why the Mail's readers support the students. These Mail readers are precisely the middle income middle class parents who will have to fork out these new fees in order to send their children to 'uni'. They'd prefer things to stay as they are, with the working class paying taxes for their beloved offspring to attend 'uni' at a subsidised cost so they can continue to afford the new cars, holiday homes, expensive restaurants, conservatories and other delights which they currently spend the money on.