snowflakes fall on the shopping streets of central London from Oxford Street to Bond Street, whitening the Christmas lights with images of Disney movies, and slows down jackets and ladies Pellicciotti Chelsea intent on making gifts. A scene from the romance of consumerism that is broken by invading groups of students, shouting loudly "no cuts to the university, no ifs and buts", which were disrupted traffic Jaguar and Mercedes taxi blacks and red double-decker bus.
"Move, do not get kettled" (come on, do not get caught), was the slogan that ran on the websites of the student movement on the eve of the third day of protest against plans to reform the Cameron government, supported by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats that wants to triple the maximum limit for tuition fees, bringing to 9,000 pounds. To avoid being creased by "bobbies", and be forced for hours in the cold as happened last Wednesday, yesterday, British students have created a «blocchi metropolitani», con proteste a macchia di leopardo nel centro della capitale, cogliendo di sorpresa la polizia.
Il tempo gelido e una bufera di neve che, a partire dalla mattinata, ha creato nuovamente disguidi ai trasporti cittadini, reduci da un grande sciopero lunedì scorso, ha limitato il numero di partecipanti a poche migliaia. Ma questo non è bastato a raffreddare l'entusiasmo degli studenti che tra le grida «Tory feccia» e «Libdem traditori», festeggiavano i segni di cedimento all'interno del governo, con i liberaldemocratici intenzionati ad astenersi nella votazione in parlamento. Piccoli scontri con la polizia si sono verificati verso le tre di pomeriggio, quando i diversi «serpentoni» that had paralyzed the traffic gathered in Trafalgar Square. A dozen arrests.
If there were so many students among the demonstrators of twenty universities in the capital, as happened last week, the majority was composed of high school students: boys aged 14 to 17 years who fear they can not afford university if the fees were raised. "I want to study psychology" - Alexandra says a fourteen year old student, wrapped a wool scarf against the wind chill. "But after that my parents have already paid for the studies of my two older brothers, I do not know if they can pay my tuition fees. It is an injustice to the younger. "
A lot of worry is the proposed elimination Ema (Education Maintenance Allowance), a check for high school students. "When they give me £ 30 a week" - said Robin a boy 16 years of Southend. "With what I pay for my bus to school and little else. In the evening I have to work as a waiter. If I could take that money also would mean that I should work in the afternoon. Study really hard for me to become. " In addition to protests in the capital, the day was marked by processions and sit-in dozens of campuses in the United Kingdom. At Cambridge, Edindurgo, Nottingham and Newcastle students have occupied classrooms and academies, mentre a Oxford in centinaia hanno invaso la sede dell'assemblea provinciale. Scontri con la polizia si sono registrati a Brighton, Bristol e Leeds.
Le proteste studentesche si intensificheranno nelle prossime settimane, quando il piano di riforma arriverà in parlamento, con i Liberal-democratici in grave imbarazzo, dopo aver rinnegato la promessa elettorale di opporsi all'aumento delle rette e di fronte a sondaggi che li danno in crollo al 9%. Ieri, parlando alle telecamere della Bbc, Vince Cable, vice-ministro LibDem all'economia, con delega all'università, ha dichiarato che potrebbe astenersi assieme ai colleghi di partito quando il provvedimento verrà votato in parlamento. L'astensione dei LibDem permetterebbe comunque l'approvazione the reform of the university. And certainly not enough to save face for a party that university students, who had voted overwhelmingly in May, accused of treason colored blue conservative.
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