How do you solve a problem like Britain?

· Nazreen Chennile Osman and Jordan Rowe

As a country, I feel as if we are missing the mark and forgetting the underlying issues which will emerge after the education reforms take place. This is probably due in part to the media’s focus on the ‘violence’ that occurred during the various student marches that have taken place over the last few weeks.

When EMA is scrapped and the tuition fee cap is raised to £9000, we will effectively see a social hierarchy re-emerging in Britain, which will succeed only in making the poor, poorer and the rich, richer.

This comes as no surprise to me, but it does make me ponder if anything will ever change. As all three major parties chase the votes of middle-England, the power of the new generation to change what Westminster thinks and does has evaporated. The cuts that are being made are only one of the detrimental decisions which David Cameron and the coalition partners will put the country through, leading to a greater problem. How do you solve a problem like Britain? I don’t know for sure, but it’s definitely not by saying ‘hello’ to the neo-liberalist policies of Mrs Thatcher again.