They tend to be people who are academic elites who came from public schools like Eton and went to Universities in Oxbridge before entering politics.
As a result they are highly educated persons who are somewhat disconnected wholly from reality. And by somewhat, I am being generous. Many say they have lived and continue to live in their own pristine bubbles away from the dirty peasants, eating their bread AND cake.
But in regards to our education system - funding.
Right now the only way you can get free University education is either if you get funded by the NHS or funded by the MOD. Another alternative is studying abroad, options are available to study in some EU Unis for free or a lower price than the one would pay in the UK - though the costs of living abroad could more than compensate to increase destitution of poor, poor students.
Either way, you're either going to become a nurse or be obligated for a time to work in some branch of the military or military reserve respectively, or become a Swede. For the majority of British students in Britain, the maximum Universities can charge sits at a little over £9k, and you can be certain that more than half of the Universities opt to charge the maximum.
Considering that what will surmount to a £27-36k loan is more than enough to cripple a student who fails to secure an adequately paid job or a job at all after completing a course, student loans and maintenance loans are given out with very specific terms designed to ensure no such crippling takes place.
Maintenance loans are given to help with living costs and educational material, the meat of the student loan is the tuition fee loan. Extra help is also available for those who are in financial shits.
Repayments of loans is joint hand in hand with how much the indebted student makes per year, following one of two plans:
Plan 1
Income per year Monthly repayments
£16,910 and under £0
£20,000 £23
£25,000 £61
£30,000 £98
£50,000 £248
Plan 2
Income per year Monthly repayments
£21,000 and under £0
£25,000 £30
£30,000 £67
£50,000 £217
Don't make the money, don't pay back the loan. When you can pay back the loan, you pay it back. Keeps funding whilst ensuring education is readily available without anyone having to fear entering Uni without a job certainly being at the end.
Currently the top 5 things the Gov love throwing money at in order of size are pensions, health care, welfare, education and debt interest payments. Defence tags at 6th, just outside of debt interest payments. To get more money given to education you're going to have to cut one of the above or you're going to have to increase taxes. Considering how the above also need increased funding, it's taxes that have to be raised. Raising taxes has for all eternity been prone to pissing off the taxed. So this happens instead. In 2014 £41.9B was spent on education by the government - and that's with trebled Uni fees. This is largely because of a prediction come true: The Tory-Libdems estimated that 30% of loans would never be fully paid off before they were written off (the student dying or the debt not being fully repaid after 30 years will result in the debt being written off) meaning the tuition fees are in essence, an attempt at getting higher earning graduates to subsidize the education of lesser income graduates. This system would be more or less perfect if interest rates for the loans could not exceed repayments, essentially making some graduates into eternal cash cows for Uni subsidies, as they will never pay off their loan. Good for some, bad for some. Rich graduates will pay off their loans quickly, poor graduates will never pay for their loans, middle income graduates will be paying for quite some time.
tl;dr, gubmint already spending loads on education. Education needs more still.
Also on the topic of MPs and education, across all the major parties MP candidates who went to elite Unis and public schools are highly overrepresented, the only party which breaks this trend is UKIP amongst which many MP candidates didn't even go to Uni.
Pretty much what you'd expect from them all. Posh boys and posh girls ruling the world; I've got no problem with that - it's just an observation that could go to some lengths to explaining their narrow mindedness. They come from a very niche upper echelon of society and are in the majority for some reason. TIS A PITY, is all I say.
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