Why Subsidise the Well Off?
Readers have probably noticed that a young man was arrested yesterday - on suspicion of taking part in Wednesday's student protest at Millbank Tower in London.
Turns out the young man is not the one who hurled a fire extinguisher into the crowd below - but he was allegedly involved in the general mayhem and vandalism on the roof of the building.
Even more interesting is the fact that he comes from an apparently wealthy family - which owns a large country house worth up to £1 million - set in its own expansive grounds - in leafy Berkshire.
Jackson Potter - a 23 year old student at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridgeshire - joins the ranks of those charged with disorderly behaviour.
But you have to ask yourself this:
Why should the public subsidise the cost of sending someone like Jackson Potter to university - when he and his family seem to come from such comfortable means?
Turns out the young man is not the one who hurled a fire extinguisher into the crowd below - but he was allegedly involved in the general mayhem and vandalism on the roof of the building.
Even more interesting is the fact that he comes from an apparently wealthy family - which owns a large country house worth up to £1 million - set in its own expansive grounds - in leafy Berkshire.
Jackson Potter - a 23 year old student at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridgeshire - joins the ranks of those charged with disorderly behaviour.
But you have to ask yourself this:
Why should the public subsidise the cost of sending someone like Jackson Potter to university - when he and his family seem to come from such comfortable means?
