ah well stephen.the sooner they convert buckingham palace into flats for the homeless the better,i am sure prince charles and the horse he married have many other palaces to reside in.

The students demonstration was possibly hijacked by other groups of young people who resent EMA being withdrawn, or are angry at this govts attack on the ordinary people with their unfair cuts.
The govt and the police didn't see this coming because they are out of touch with how strongly people feel and my guess is things are going to escalate.

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I studied in Britain from 1996-2000. I didn't pay any fees and received an annual maintenance grant. The state also costed my flight and part of my tuition and expenses for my third year out in Argentina. I now live in Spain where I started out earning peanuts and now earn a modest but sufficient salary in a journalism related career. If I were a few years younger I would now be exchanging a large part of the euros I earn into more expensive pounds to pay back my education for the rest of my life. Probably I wouldn't have been able to afford it.

It seems education is no longer about broadening the mind and reaching out to your ideals. Instead it means getting heavily into debt and then becoming a banker to keep spinning that wheel and screwing over the future generations. Aspire to anything else and the sums don't add up.

Thanks and RIP welfare state. And thanks to the NS for those priceless five weeks' work experience shortly after Blair's '97 victory just as the dream started to unravel for future generations. At least my student grant paid for the cost of my transport to and from the office. Others will not be so lucky. I would be more surprised if they didn't go and protest.

I voted Lib Dem and now I wish I could take it back! If I had known this would happen they would not have got my vote.

We should put some sort of system in place where political parties are penalised for not keeping their promises- that will at least make for a more comprehensive and honest campaign run.

Well done students! Although I feel bad that they injured police officers (who were, after all, just trying to do their job and may have agreed with the protest!) you've got to admit, it did get them noticed. It probably wouldn't have been the main news headline without the violence, but it does sadden me that it takes things like this to get people to sit up and pay attention.

I'm looking forward to going to the next cuts march with a poster: MEMBER OF THE BULLINGDON CLUB -PROTECTED BY DAVE PERSONALLY

There was a sign that had Gordon Browns face with a love heart around it... simply saying "miss you babes"...

Here's a slogan, "PAY FOR YOUR OWN WEDDING"

And their honeymoon is paid for as they're going on "Get me out of here I'm a celebrity"

Hi Stuart and Buckskins. Nice one on the Big Issues Stuart! I'm not one for protests normally but this lot deserve it, the anger is rife from what I saw of it. Think we've got a few more on the way, the ones against the banks will be like world war 3! People have had enough. I saw four people this morn each one with a really bad tale of how their lives have been turned upside down by what's going on, these are real people living on the edge of their nerves. It's a horrible feeling out there, this isn't the way.

Ehtch: I had to laugh at that one too from Cameron over foreign students, he's such a ***ker!

can't fdigure tthe missing letters there nick

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"11. Emo kid with sign: Is this the queue for Justin Bieber tickets?"

That was someone from Thames Valley University. We forgot placards, unfortunately.

Personally I enjoyed "I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO ALTON TOWERS!"

hi nick,well i always slag off the middle class commies and leftys,but i gotta admit this country has been crying out for somebody to take the lead and yesterday the middle classes and there student mates did this country proud in there opposition to these spending cuts and i just hope yesterdays events outside millbank towers has awoken my fellow working class brothers and sisters to get up off there arses and awake from there slumber and dont let these crooks in number 10 roll all over us and squash are heads into the ground like little lemons with these spending cuts,yesterday was a great day for democrisy in my view and man the barricades because there is many a battele to come in the next few years.get the message clegg and cameron.

You forgot:

Post well dressed girl - "First no letter from Hogwarts... Now this?!"

An alternative Top 10:

1. Even if I earn £25,000 a year, there's no way I could ever afford £30 a month to pay for the higher education I chose.

2. I can't be arsed to get a vacation job in Sainsbury's to help offset the cost of my education because stacking shelves is what other people do.

3. I can't be arsed to work a gap year to help offset the cost of my education because I can't take responsibility for my own decisions.

4. I can't be arsed to get a weekend job to help offset the cost of my education because I'd rather spend taxpayer's money getting pissed.

5. I don't care that it was Labour who introduced tuition fees because Tories eat babies. So there.

6. I'd rather be interviewed by Alex Thompson on C4 News and be woefully inarticulate.

7. I don't care that Labour has crippled the economy again because all Tories are evil toffs. So there.

8. My parents made huge sacrifices to give me a good education. They're so selfish and middle class!

9. The world owes me a living because it just does.

10. Government should pay for everything because magic money grows on trees.

Boys and girls, it is time you woke up and smelled the Starbucks. It's a hard world out there; there's no free lunch when you're a grown-up.

Can't believe the hypocrisy of Cameron & Boris. Most of the 100 kids involved in the yesterday's violence were in their late teens or early 20's. Weren't our distinguished leaders smashing up curry houses at a similar age during their Bullingdon club days. Don't recall any charges being pressed then. Where weren't the full powers of the law applied then as both are calling for know? At least the mob had a cause rather than upper class snobs brazenly attacking local businesses and expecting daddy to pick up the bill.

As a dad of a 5 year old, I know I will have to stump up thousands in years to come to fund my son through University. I sympathise with today's students but resent the media purely focuses on the criminal damage rather than the the Lib Dem broken promises & further eveidence of a divided & broken society. Takes me back to the 80's and agree with today's Guardian that we're likely to see more protests as more elements of society are affected by the cuts. Hope Clegg, Hughes & co lose their seats come election time.

Disgruntled: WHY O WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY,does this bunch of German scroungers always get away with any critisism.
We taxpayers pay for their extavagant lives, yet the queen had to be forced to pay tax a few years ago.
The poulation as a whole, has not cottoned-on to what the Royals are about. They are very rarely in the press, a form of hiding, unable to be critised.
But what is going to happen, come spring/summer 2011, when the taxpayer (if there are any left) will be asked to pay for an extravagant wedding to flaunt their affluence, I don't think that will go down to well with the benefit scroungers etc. Probably best do it quietly at gretna green maybe, just an idea, you know, incase the public revolts.

My favourites to add to this list: "I will not be a slave to the sons of privilege" and "You wouldn't cut a cat so don't cut eduCATion."

Number 9 was stolen from comedian Russell Howard, although its place is in a march of this kind.

Number 11 was stolen from that 'Rally to Restore Reason'.

Looking back, 'stolen' was a bit harsh- appropriate humour that takes the edge off a serious march. Why should it cost to go to university? It's supposed to be a meritocracy of intellectualism, not economic strength! If someone deep into their overdraft receives A*AA, isn't that the only loop they should have to jump through to get into a higher institution?

Or should we go back to the days of 17th century Britain when the nobility and those wishing to join the clergy were the only people deemed qualified to go to university?

@stuart; so from 9.30 to 3 you sold 245 New Issue copies at one quid a time. And how much do you take home from that? 200 quid? That's tax free and on top of your unemployment benefit. Why bother looking for a job if you can milk the system like you are doing? I hope you're not pissing it up all up against the wall or blowing it all up in top class skunk. Have you tried opening a CFD account (try IG http://www.igmarkets.com.au/): it allows you to invest in the stock market via leverage (200 quid will give you access to 2000 quid worth of stocks). At the moment you should invest in Rio Tinto or BHP ( I think it's BLT in London) as commodities are booming. Its worth a flutter stuart and its dead easy to do.

Did you see that placard, "I'm marching because my friends are'

as for my drinking,pot smoking yes iam still going steady on that and have been indulging in a bit of that tonight,but as they say, lifes suppossed to be a pleasure and not a misery.

I was down there some other good ones I happened to spy included:
'Dumbledore wouldn't stand for this shit'

the rather odd 'cut your hair, not our education'

and 'principles aside, putting the task of reducing the deficit on the shoulders of 18 year olds does seem a bit risky!'