• I think if the student leaders had condemned the violence, they would have retained a lot more public sympathy. Everyone is getting hit by cuts at the moment, yet you dont see people lobbing bricks at the police, smashing up public buildings and defacing national monuments.

    As it is, if anything the protests have had the exact opposite effect of what they where trying to achieve.

    Charlie Gilmour alone has done more damage to the campaign than a bunch of anarchists joining in for shits and giggles.

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