I am writing this on behalf of myself and the millions of other students that find themselves in the same boat.
First and foremost, we are appalled by the lack of guidance and support that you have failed to provide us with. Our education has been put on the backbench since March 2020 and yet we are still expected to pay £9,250 for a ”full-time” education that has been replaced with Zoom videocalls and PowerPoint presentations.
In September 2020, we were actively encouraged to return to University and further from this, we were also encouraged to support the ’Eat Out To Help Out’ scheme, to which yourself and your fellow MP’s were shocked at the inevitable rise in COVID-19 cases. We are not to blame. We are the easiest excuse for you to give when addressing the nation at your incompetence to handle the global pandemic. We are constantly reminded to all “work together“ but how can you expect us to support you when we have received nothing but ignorance and confusion? I’m sure when the our crippled nation is completely on its knees because of your wrongdoings, you won’t hesitate to take our money in order to bring the nation back to its feet. Our tuition fees and maintenance loans will suffer a huge interest increase because of your failure to get us all through.
You also don’t hesitate at continuing to greedily replenish your pockets with the money we scrape together in order to afford the costs of our overpriced, rented accommodation with student finance that barely covers the costs for a place of residence that we are not living in.
I would like to make the point that my argument is not a reflection of our University lecturers and staff. I (and all of the other students) have the utmost respect for our lecturers and their attempts to still provide us with an education that has been robbed from us due to the disorganised structure, proposed by our failing government.
So, I plead to you, on behalf of myself and the millions of other students; LISTEN TO US.
Petition Link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324762