Kingston Students Welcome Lib Dems Motion

By Clare1960 | Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 14:54

Vice

President of Education for Kingston University’s Student Union

Chris Dingle said: “Kingston University Students’ Union welcomes

the motion from the Liberal Democrat conference, to explore cross

party support for a graduate tax, and we believe it is a golden

opportunity for the party to achieve what their voters mandated them

to do.”

“Vince

Cable in his speech today reaffirmed his commitment to ensuring

graduate contributions are linked to earnings and we believe that the

Liberal Democrats can be part of a constructive solution to the

higher education funding debate.”

“All

current Liberal Democrat MP’s have pledged to vote against tuition

fees, and it is now time for them to follow the mandate they were

given by voters at the last general election, and abolish tuition

fees with a fair and progressive graduate tax.”

KUSU

will continue to work with the NUS as part of the “Fund our Future”

campaign, and will be an active participant at the NUS/UCU

demonstration in London on Wednesday 10th

November.

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This is a bit of a con trick by the Lib Dems. They have been caught out by actually ending up in power - they usually make promises knowing that they'll never have to fund their promises. It depends on how any graduate tax would work as to whether it would actually be better that the current system for students. If it does cost the taxpayer more, where are the cuts going to be made?

By IanDGeorge at 23:52 on 26/09/10
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