SNP: ‘Black day’ for higher education
SNP home affairs spokesperson Pete Wishart MP comments on the passage of the government’s controversial legislation on tuition fees:
“This betrayal is a black day for higher education and is all the more disgraceful because it has been delivered with the votes of Scottish Lib Dem MPs.
“Those Lib Dem MPs who voted for this increase, or abstained, should be named and shamed.
“This tripling of fees will have serious consequences for higher education north and south of the border. Scottish students studying in England will be saddled with mammoth debts and there will be a knock on effect on Scottish higher education.
“People in Scotland will have an early opportunity to pass judgment on the Liberal Democrats at the elections next year and I predict this betrayal will haunt the Lib Dems at Holyrood.
“The Tories introduced loans, Labour brought in fees and the Lib Dems have now helped the Tories increase them. Only the SNP is left as the party for students in Scotland offering them the opportunity to be part of something better.”
