YES I am back. Two weeks later then promised. I couldn’t even keep to my word of a regular blog each week. Lets forget about the blank spaces and pretend we were all in a coma for a good few days. Good. Frankly I was feeling a little uninspired by the news. It wasn’t as though there were no important stories, it was just I wasn’t gripped by any to investigate further. Not good news for a ‘journo’ in training.
Don’t worry I haven’t been completely uninspired. I have a few ideas I want to develop over the next few weeks. Until then here is a little nibble to suppress you literary hunger.
We are firmly into the annual party political conference season. Kicking off with the Lib Dems. I am sure a vast majority of the population have little, to no idea that this is taking place. It seems that this how politics seems to work in Britain today. Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem party leader (apparently a third of voters have never heard of him) announced that the party will need to seriously consider outlining policies on cuts in public spending prior to the election in contrast to previous elections. There are also hints that the vote winning policy of scrapping student tuition fees could be dropped from the next manifesto.
If only tuition fees had been scrapped already. The past few weeks have seen thousands of students wondering if they will be able to go to university at all this term. The government and Student Finance England, have - to put it bluntly - cocked up big time. It is estimated that 50,000 students will be left without finance at the start of the term due to a delay in processing applications. With a phone line that is permanently busy and a Direct Gov website that is constantly useless it’s a case of waiting for the post. We’ll just have to wait around and twiddle our thumbs nervously.
Back to party conference, Clegg makes his key speech tomorrow. We might find out a little more about the party’s direction, if we are lucky.
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