Takedown of the week
Takedown of the week goes to this exchange which started with a column by student Isaac Doel in the Times arguing it was wrong for Labour to scrap university tuition fees.
I’m a student and Labour is wrong to scrap my tuition fees, writes @IsaacDoel https://t.co/bczmJW6Qf5 pic.twitter.com/wH29lZZenb
— Red Box (@timesredbox) November 12, 2019
Which prompted this reply from Evolve Politics, a left wing media outlet, pointing out where Doel went to school.
Isaac Doel went to Reading Blue Coat Private School where fees are £16,695 a year.
Isaac Doel is not exactly representative of ordinary people.
— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) November 12, 2019
And just when you thought he had the perfect response …
Hi, I’m from a single parent family and my mum is a nurse. I was very fortunate to receive a foundation scholarship at Reading Blue Coat which meant I didn’t pay any fees at all, owing to my family’s low household income.
— Isaac Doel (@IsaacDoel) November 12, 2019
… This happened.
So you’re saying it was a good thing that you didn’t have to pay tuition fees?
— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) November 12, 2019
Boom.
In the interests of balance and all that, he later said this. But we can’t help but feel that people had moved on by then.
Aside from the secondary school I went to being out of my control, the issues of private school fees and university tuition fees are clearly separate as there is no loan and repayment system available for private school fees.
— Isaac Doel (@IsaacDoel) November 12, 2019
‘Wow,’ said Redditor redwhale335. ‘It takes a lot of chutzpah to argue that poor people shouldn’t get free college after you got free college because you were a poor person.
‘EDIT: Yes. I get it. He is referring to the UK system of education, and he got a scholarship to a swanky high school, not college. He still is arguing against scrapping tuition fees. What he’s saying is still indicative of the mindset that I was commenting on.’
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