British students, workers and families start feeling the effects of the massive 82 billion Pound worth of cuts to public spending announced by the coalition government, last month. This has led to a number of strikes, peaceful protests that have now turned violent. On November 10, a student protest took place against the threefold increase in tuition fee to nine thousand Pounds. It soon turned into a violent fiasco resulting into 50 arrests and at least 41 injuries among police and protesters.
Now what does this mean? Is Britain taking a step back from being a welfare state or is it merely a contractionary fiscal policy? Whatever it is, my concern is merely weather Britain will continue in its reign of being a welfare nation. For people like me who live under the hopes of welfare states being the only remedy in capitalism, what will become the future of this welfare state system, if Britain being one of the benchmarks for this system has changed its policy. Clearly a cut in public spending indicates a cut in the welfare of people, and its unfair to the population because they have been living all their life with the comfort that their state provides them, now all of a sudden they have to start spending on health and education, its a disaster in the making and a serious policy re-evaluation is needed,especially after witnessing so much civil unrest.
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