A GENERATION of Warrington youngsters will be ‘condemned’ to debt and a hopeless future if a Conservative government is elected, according Jo Crotty, Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Warrington 
South.
She was speaking after the Conservatives suggested they will increase tuition fees to £7,000 if they take power at the next general election, which has to be held by next June.
Coun Crotty (pictured) said: “There are now less than eight months to save a new generation of young people from huge increases in university tuition fees.
“I look around Warrington South and I see people return from university with no job and a bank balance tens of thousands of pounds in the red. What sort of message is that?”
Currently there is a cap of £3,300 in England and Wales. The National Union of Students estimates that the average cost of attending university now stands at more than £42,000. The average graduate will have accrued nearly £20,000 of debt by the end of a three-year course.
Coun Crotty added: “The choice is clear: the people of Warrington South can vote for a politician who will condemn a generation of youngsters or for the Liberal Democrats who will make education free again, giving young people the best possible start.”
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Methinks Crotty has been living on a different planet.
It’s been like that for decades, and her party won’t make squat difference.
What this silly woman fails to explain is the word “Free” It isn’t free Jo; it is another burden onto the hard pressed taxpayer to give these students “free” education. I have just funded my son through University but I fail to see why I should pay for everyone elses kids to go. If they don’t want to pay the fees, let them go and find a proper job instead or maybe do some voluntary work (that won’t cost them a penny and they will get a lot more life experience out of it) . If only NuLab hadn’t turned going to Uni into a right instead of leaving it as a priviledge, we might not have degrees in David Beckham or White Rhino keeping on the plains of Birchwood.
A GENERATION of Warrington youngsters ARE ALREADY ‘condemned’ to debt and a hopeless future, as are their parents, thanks to the inability of current elected so called ‘boffins’.
It’s just another case of the usual pre-election political waffle about ‘what the hopefuls think electors want to hear’.. and then of course they will just change their minds or forget what they had once promised ‘if’ they happen to be elected.
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