CAMPAIGN BASED ON STUDENT FEES AND THE ROLE OF THE INTERNET

CAMPAIGN BASED ON STUDENT FEES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HXak0zKJp4

In this YouTube video Nick Clegg apologizes for his betrayal especially towards students who are now left having to pay £9,000 a year to study at university. Before the general election the liberal democrats had declared that they would not follow the positions that the other political party had taken to raise student tuition fees. However, why would we believe the liberal democrats would have our best interest and take a stance against the rise in fees? But they did not!

Most people in general are disappointed with Nick Clegg; he’s broken a promise that he should have never made. Even his party issued a response:

‘We shouldn’t have committed to a leader who was so costly to our image when there was so much goodwill around. There’s no easy way to say this: we put forward a leader who fooled many of us too – and for that we are sorry.’  (Huffington Post, UK. By Andrea Mann. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/21/nick-clegg-liberal-democrats-apology-spoof-news_n_1902633.html) (Accessed on 13/03/2014)

Even though I do not believe In Political parties because in my opinion they lie and cheat just to make it to the top. And to be quite frank Nick Clegg has done that and added caution to the fan with his video because his party felt that they chose the wrong leader who could not keep their word.

Really what did Nick Clegg think was going to happen after he gave his apology?

Well I can tell you… by time the video came out there were many videos posted on YouTube after his apology mocking Nick Clegg. Many people had made rebuttals on how they had felt and composed songs that caused laugher for days.

This why I love the Internet, and the freedoms we have to post and say how we feel on videos and blogs. The creation of the Internet has come so far because now there are different mediums and platforms of media that allow us to express our feelings and thoughts and find information. Nick Clegg’s apology received almost 70,000 views on YouTube.

In our campaign, we decided to create awareness of our views about student fees. Looking at some research many others, students as well as teachers campaigning for the reduction of student fees have shown the importance of unity with many people coming together for one cause nonetheless they have received brutal force from the police in many places. Most of theses videos have been shown on YouTube recorded on people phones and cameras showing how normal people have become reporters and the creation of user-generated content has spread.

With all the uses of technology it has really shown how important the campaign for student fees is. The harsh reality is Nick Clegg made an “unrealistic” promise to us, some may say that those who believed (not including myself) were foolish to an extent to believe. But as much as I do not want to believe it in the economy we are living in it was inevitable, that student fees would go up.