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@Tenderloin
There's no point just aimlessly blaming other people. Fact is these cuts are affecting us as students, and people younger than us.
For my part my mother as a widower and working as a social worker, with 3 children currently in full time education, feel that the current cuts are unacceptable, but I have no anti-feelings of those that have previously prospered from the way the education system has previously been run. Both my parents went to university as mature students and both gained MA's mainly through grants. My main reason for protesting is that my brother as a college student will face an EMA cut of 1500 pounds a year, and then have to look at anywhere upwards of say 50,000 pounds worth of debt to be saddled with after university. All the while the university budgets are being cut by 40%, and so emphasis is no longer placed on university being a place of learning and bettering yourself. Why cripple prospective students? I am much more in favour of a graduate tax, as it would appear to be a fairer way of re-couping money.