Stewart Lee on university funding and the arts

Stewart Lee discusses tuition fees and arts funding.

Full interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxaJrp... (DevereuxOnians)

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[1965917]

Yeah get back to work, learn on your own time, how dare you increase our understanding of the past and enrich yourself and our culture at my expense? This isn't what I pay my taxes for! I pay my taxes for pointless government think tanks, concrete council buildings, war and bailing out failing banks! All government spending must be geared towards making this country more of a dull grey morally bankrupt slab.

[1965917]

You are a troll, right?

I pay 20% VAT, income tax, Council Tax, car tax, Excise duties and I WANT them to take my money and spend it on enriching our culture, I don't want this country full of unemployable angry young people who cant get a job to pay for the degree they cant afford because they haven't got a degree to get the job in the first place.

But you've already made up your mind right? You think "fuck you, got mine". Congratulations btw on being born male middleclass and white.

[Sera Johnson]

Tell that to JRR Tolkien

[Sam G]

I still don't understand how studying Ancient Norse literature has any value intrinsically or otherwise.

[ThunderAppeal]

Wouldnt it be just amazing if a portion of those same children learning 'ancient nordsk literature' would spend some time learning about izlamic history. Perhaps a few of the surrender monkeys in europe would realize how much destruction izlam has caused. No instead all the eurokiddies would just put all religion under the blanket of 'bad'.

[Conquestidore]

Labour is and has been just as dangerous, if not more so, toward the preservation and ongoing practice of the arts

[Martin McMonkey]

Never. Ever. Lose this piece of footage. Thank you.

[warriorprince101010]

No top up fees under Thatcher.

[Gral Cumberbund]

Conservatives : all they want is to create a them and us culture. The Tories are all about keeping their privileges through making it hard for anyone else to be anywhere near them. They just slide it under your radar by saying things like we want everyone to have what we have: and then providing everyone no means to have it: 90% of the people in the top wage brackets are from children of those who are in the main in the top 90% wage bracket. I'm not a socialist, but I am not an idiot either.

[Jeffrey Badland]

He's got it spot on.

[oddun]

He's completely correct

[ThisIsWater7]

Just wanted to say that you totally own.