Toynbee is at it again, those damn students protesting against increased fees, how very dare they…. they are low, way low, down that pecking order. Now, it’s OK if you’re a hack for hire like the Toynbee but as she well knows many graduates will get average paid job while wedded to the financial injustice of having to pay off astronomical fees. Just what is so wrong with a free education, Toynbee?
Also, this is from a hack who argued for tactical voting at the election. Yes, Toynbee, and where did that get us…? Vote Clegg and get Cameron. And that’s what we got, thank-you-very-much for those unwise, and politically wrong, oh so wrong, words Toynbee.
In this article regarding the attacks on higher education, Toynbee indulges in classic divide and rule tactics. Her logic is that the other cuts are far far worse and that we should concentrate on those. Er no, wrong headed and politically inept….yet again… it’s about building unity with EVERYONE who are facing attacks and that includes students. You cannot pick and choose the cuts you want to fight against ‘cos we are all in this together. The approach we need is that if a group is prepared to stand up to the austerity drive they should receive the support. The only condition is that we all support each other so that the strong in struggle (perhaps yes those with better primary and secondary education) support those with less power.
I don’t think Toynbee understands the concept of unity and solidarity. Anyone who still thinks she’s left-leaning has serious illusions in this hack for hire. She seems to want to impose a hierarchy of worthiness of struggle: in her view you cannot struggle to protect yourself from dispossession unless there is nobody in even more despair than you. Mind you as a dyed in the wool Fabian Ms Toynbee does not see any struggle as valid: it is for the likes of her to decide who of the ordinary people will get what.
Demonstrate against these attacks on higher education Wednesday 10th November 2010.
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I thought Toynbee’s article was quite of order as well. As well as pointless. Glad to see I’m not alone!
Thanks Claude, you weren’t along… she was out of order
It’s worse than that: when fees were about to be introduced, she seemed quite happy with the idea that students should study ‘something’ at their local uni (if there is one and if they can get in), rather than study what they wanted wherever they wanted, as she seemed convinced that New Labour should prioritise the under-fives instead of undergraduates.