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About us :: Our stance
Tuition fees
We reject Labour's proposals to make students pay top up fees. What is worse is the Conservative proposal to put commercial rates of interest on our student loan. Many students do not mind paying inflation-rate debts after graduation, but cannot comprehend paying back commercial rate debts. This type of proposal is typically Tory - penalise those that need to take out a loan (i.e. the students who can't afford to go through university without one), whereas the ones that don't need to pay for a loan pay nothing.
We believe in education based on merit and the enthusiasm to learn, not an education based on how much your parents earn.
Iraq
This is a vast argument that we tend to put into three main points that counter the arguments of those who believe war was the right thing to do:
1. The government say they went into Iraq for humanitarian reasons. If this was the case, why didn't they go to Rwanda to stop the genicide, and why didn't they go to South America (on Dubya's doorstep) to stop the infanticide?
2. The government say they went into Iraq because they suspected them of possessing WMDs. If this was the case, why didn't they go into North Korea, been as there was much more evidence of their nuclear agenda than Iraq?
We strongly opposed the Iraq war consistently, whereas the Conservatives had no idea whether they were coming or going.
ID Cards
We oppose ID cards because they trample on civil liberties without being much use themselves. Even Charles Clarke has admitted that they would not have prevented the London bombings, and they did not stop the Madrid bombings. We would rather see £6bn of our taxpayers' money going towards more intelligence and police to prevent such terrorist acts ever happening again.
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Future events
Weekly Meeting
Committee Room, USSU.
8th March 2007, 7:30pm
Off to Roots afterwards.
LDYS Conference
Bristol University
23rd-25th March 2007
Lib Dem members only. For more info contact the committee.
Contacts
President
Kyle Chamberlain
bs53kc@surrey.ac.uk
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Vice-President
Tom Southern
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Treasurer
Richard Tarrant
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Constituency Liaison Officer
Luke Searle
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Membership Officer
Paul Hunt
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