Students 'trapped' in halls of residence

First two fresher weeks at uni are a giant piss up anyway. Irrespective of that though they can pretty much everything online, it was a big bungling mistake sending the students to uni knowing what problems it would cause becsuse of covid.

It was not a mistake, the landlords wanted the rent from the students so they were sent back to uni and then immediately quarantined and told lessons online. 

You forget that Tories are the rentier class.

I agree with you parrotandcrow, money. The same for the universities. They are smarting from the loss of foreign students. They can' 'afford' to reduce or refund tuition fees.

Yes students are a big honey pot

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-54342186

Australia needs no lessons from the UK on corrupt authoritarianism, if snything theyre just looking for more ideas on social control.

All these measures theyre using now when the virus is not a high mortality threat thst shoukd have been used in February when it was just points to the obvious conclusion that its all about taking advantage of the situation for stifling protest and imposing social control especially since in 3 months time we've got the added chaos of Brexit kicking in.

Theyve half the population to death an into submission and locking up the rest.

We're watching democracy (what bit there is in the UK) ebb away and we're just letting it happen.
They make big noise about Russia being run by authoritarian politicians and corrupt businessmen but its no different here.

I fully understand that Australia is very much under the thumb of a right wing govt, same as here, but the newscaster was actually saying that our social control measures, such ad they are, are pointless.

Over the last few decades I have seen various segments of society demonised as a method of spreading fear. Divide and conquer is the ruling classes method of control.

The poor, (benefit cheats) the disabled (benefit cheats) single parents - though only if they are women, (benefit cheats) the unemployed (benefit cheats) anybody who is not white (terrorists/illegal immigrants) muslims (terrorists). We've managed to wage a "war on terror" which is a challenge as most of the fear and terror comes from our own government, but they are very good at taking away our rights to protect us against "them" whoever "them" is at a given moment.

The young have always been painted as scary, "feral youths" do . . . and the like.

Now we have something that works even better than the war on terror, which was always an ephemeral target.

We have a virus which has been heavily publicised, "Save our NHS" is the cry, and this has resulted in it being virtually impossible to get treatment, even tests for anything that isn't covid, leading to people dying of many preventable conditions, whether cancer, heart disease, diabetes, whatever. The "surplus deaths" are written off as covid, and undoubtedly some are, which further muddies the water. However, it has been very easy while we are fighting this invisible enemy to finish selling off the NHS.

Racism is so built-in to our society that we don't even see it when it is stinking right under our noses. The only people who are never singled out as our current enemy, are the ones at the top, the utterly corrupt government and their donors to whom this is all an end plan.