Britain's seeing its biggest protest yet against the deep cuts the country faces to tackle its massive debts. Tens of thousands of students are protesting against a planned hike in tuition fees which could see them treble to 9-thousand pounds a year. Violence flared briefly during the overwhelmingly peaceful protest as a handful of people smashed windows in a high-rise building that houses the headquarters of the Conservative Party, part of the governing coalition. Britain's Liberal Democrats, who are part of the coalition, pledged during the country's election campaign to abolish fees.
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British Students Smash Windows in Fee Protest
By BLOOMBERG LONDON - Demonstrating students broke windows at the complex housing the headquarters of British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative
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Poor? Disadvantaged? Pull the other one... The rich, rioting students
On advice from the police I explained it wasn't safe to leave the building and they should stay away from the windows. We could hear the students shouting
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Is the government out of touch? Ask those students Whitehall was besieged by students and the centre of power was powerless to do anything about it. Ministers and officials watched from their windows, |
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UK students storm Conservative Party HQ after rumours spread of middle-class ...
The crowd smashed windows and entered the building after rumours spread that there were middle-class handouts inside. Although it's thought the
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John Rentoul: Johnson learns from the Lib Dems away from recalcitrant claimants; rioting students smash plate-glass windows across the road from the House of Commons: it feels like the old days. |