Put Your Money Where Your Vote Was

Here’s a message I sent to my MP Rob Wilson today, via writetothem. I encourage everyone else whose MP voted in December to raise tuition fees, to send a similar message to their MP.

Dear Rob Wilson,

According to The Public Whip website you voted with the government on the proposals on university tuition fees in December. Accordingly it would appear that you believe that  individuals who gain a degree (or even simply study for one) should be required to pay  individually nearly the full cost of that education. Since you appear to have a degree (your web page indicates that you studied at the University of Reading although it does not explicitly state  that you graduated) or at least studied at University, and that as an MP your salary is well above the average (indeed comes into the higher rate tax bracket), I would like to know how much you  have personally paid towards your degree and if this is less than is estimated to have been the relative cost of your degree at the time, whether you have any plans to put your money where your vote was and to pay for your own degree by a voluntary contribution (perhaps over time) to your Alma Mater to bring your payments up to those you voted to impose on future generations of students.

Originally published at blog.a-cubed.info