Don't it just make your English blood boil?
Gordon Brown seems to be under the misguided impression that proposing to pay university tuition fees for students who volunteer for community work is somehow good for his Prime Ministerial prospects. This, believes Brown, will encourage "strong modern patriotism".
Now let's see...Scottish students don't pay fees. English students pay fees. So Mr Brown, you are proposing to make English kids work for what the Scots get for free? And this most divisive of propositions is somehow intended to further "an agreed British national purpose"?
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Community Service something the courts hand out in lieu of prison sentences? The only good thing about this is that English students are unlikely to vote Brown.
The Higher Education (‘top-up fees’) bill affects only England, but was passed through the votes of MPs in Scotland’s constituencies. There is a strong case for suggesting that the imposition of top-up fees is democratically, constitutionally and morally invalid, and consequently whether their imposition is ultra vires [acting beyond the scope of government power]: in other words a form of dictatorship.
Incidentally, it was the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman who first introduced the term “Scottish Raj” to describe England’s current plight. Despite being instructed by Scottish MPs to apologise for his utterance, Paxman’s term, “Scottish Raj” has become increasingly widespread.
Via Gareth.
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posted by Gavin Corder at 3:45 PM
8 Comments:
The picture is a masterpiece! Made my day
Gavin, as you say this is just prelims for Brown's PM push as was the 'aren't we all cuddly and British' hooha last week....
Go for em Gav!
The arrow on the Union Flag is pointing the wrong way too, I noticed..
Hi Gav. Brown is getting nervous. History is littered with political nearly men. Gordie's sudden outpouring of good ideas would be less suspicious if he had had any others since 1997.
He's starting to overstep his Treasury boundaries in an attempt to keep himself in the headlines during the Cameron honeymoon period. My tip for a compromise Labour leader? Safe pair of hands? New contact lenses? Experience at the top? Jack Straw. Don't laugh he's the 21st century John Major...
Hello Lionel, are your trying to tell me you WANT GB to be PM?
And as for you Gus! Jack Straw!!!!!!!! We'd be a laughing stock! (Well more of a laughing stock)
Well Lightning, count your blessings at least he's not at half mast...
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