University Students Devastate Tory HQ In London During a Protest That Turned Into Riot

Global economic crisis is determining even economic powers like the United Kingdom to take measures that would ensure cuts in expenditures in most of the fields related to the state sector.

Thus, in order to gather more money to the state budget, the Conservatory-Liberal government is bent on tripling student tuition fees, which sparked the anger of university students who took it to the streets of London on Wesnesday, in a protest that counted 50,000 students that came to protest peacefully against this provisions, threatening the Tories that if they got through with it, they would lose the support of an entire generation of Britons, which in Britain is a very serious business politicians cannot easily dismiss.

The protest soon degenerated in a chaotic riot, mainly because of anarchists that blended with protesters, heading for the Conservatory Party headquarters.

The police were outnumbered, so the students smashed their way into the Tory HQ building, destroying everything in their path and even aggressing some police officers, according to reports.

According to a police spokesman, 14 people were injured, half of them being police officers, while 32 were arrested by the police for criminal damage and trespassing.

Police estimates that the number of university students who were marching the streets of London in protest against the tuition fee proposal of the Conservatives-Liberal Coalition was of 20,000, while 50,000 is the number advanced by organizers.

London’s Police chief Paul Stephenson said that this level of violence was not expected and that what happened on 30 Millbank was absolutely unacceptable.

The president of National Union of Students, Aaron Porter, called the violence that occurred during the protest “despicable.”

On a Twitter message he praised those who came to protest peacefully and slammed those who caused troubles.

By the time riot police forced the students out of the Tory building the signs of devastation were present everywhere. A student was quoted to have said that the police did not expect to march them until there without anything to happen.

University students are angry because the increase in tuition fee is way too high, the politicians decided it without any consulting with them, and because it contradicts pre-electoral promises of the Liberal Democrat Party, which is a member of the coalition in power.

On the placards they were holding could be read: “Stop education cuts,” and “9K? No way!” the latter referring to the STG9,000 maximum level of annual fees.

Students complained that, given the economic situation in the country, getting a job while student is a problem for more than 50 percent of them and that the increase of the tuition fee would only make things three times worse.