I saw the James Caan from the BBC’s dragons den a couple of nights ago on Newsnight discussing or not whether there was going to be a recession and what should be done to stop it.

All things are pointing to a recession at the moment…

• Sinking house prices
• High energy costs
• High food costs
• High oil costs
• Banks won’t lend money for mortgages
• The employment market is slowing

and more things besides. I agreed with what James was saying in that the government must help us out here. If the government don’t want a recession then they must ‘ease the pinch’ on the average British person right now. It’s time to start cutting tax on energy and petrol and place these taxes elsewhere.

I personally have the viewpoint that there is so much wastage by the government that many millions of taxpayers money is virtually ‘lost’ due to poor allocation of the money or the money is not used to its full extent.

Recession won’t hit students so bad because the students will get the same amount of money regardless. The only thing to hit students bad (as I have said before) is these top up fees, high energy costs and rising food costs.

This is partly why this site is here. To help you guys out a bit more!

Take care for now

I have a nice title for the book that has come in the competition ‘The Wealthy Student Handbook’ - providing a wealth of knowledge for the student community.

It’s going to be tough to be it - but you can try here.

With this blog I am going to get into some meatier subject matter to get my real views on things out there.

This week: Where does all the money really go?

I am talking about taxes and what the general public pays. Of course we pay taxes to maintain the services - police, army, hospitals and those things, but is every single pound and penny going to good places?

I personally don’t think it is.

There is so much waste of money in our society and our government has to take the blame here. I know if every penny was spent properly students wouldn’t have top up fees and being slammed with 4.8% interest.

We need to fight the student corner but we also need to fight our own corner as a British citizens. Where is every single pound of our money going? All we seem to have found out lately is that MP’s can now claim thousands on a new kitchen for their second home.

In Scotland students don’t have the same fees as us. Why not here?

We need answers and in our quest to help students, we’ll also be trying to get these answers.

Are you with us?

Well ladies and gents the competition is up, it’s been there for 2 days and I haven’t had one entry yet! What’s going on?

You get a free professional CV (or voucher for when you need it if you win), plus you could win some cash.

Now, if you’re a student - read this and see if you don’t go mad.

I officially think this government is crazy. How can Bill Rammell, the ‘higher education minister’ dare to say…

“There is no real rate of interest. The student only repays, in real terms, what they have borrowed.”

“This is in contrast to the policy of the Conservative party which is that students should pay a real rate of interest.”

What is this conservative ‘real rate of interest’? Maybe it is something more manageable like 2%

Most of us (like me) are going to be graduating with £15,000 debt, so that’s £720 in interest a year which will compound unless I am earning over £22,000.

This is the same for everyone.

Is it fair? NOOOOOO, it’s not fair.

The government are clearly making money off us and it’s about time we did something about it, something more than Facebook petitions.

I have set up a new forum - HERE - it’s the bottom thread - this will discuss what we are going to do about it.

We will get something done.

GET INVOLVED.