Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Sometimes GP I fear your own employment has led you to suspect everyone of sheer self interest. Maybe explains your attitude to Johnson too.

Tbf...at no time have I suggested any such scheme could be ‘grandfathered down to past students’. Indeed I made it very clear that 43 years ago I qualified with negligible debt and excellent employment prospects.
Times however have changed...it is those qualifying today, or from the last decade or so, that I refer to, and all I have suggested is that those who, having spent time and money qualifying, then spend their working lives working for the good/betterment of society, might be rewarded in this way.

I’d also entirely agree with Tricky’s proviso from his final sentence.
That's better than your previous working directly for the state. But how would you determine working for the good of society?

Would you include any of the following, accountants working for health companies, architects for building companies who have built schools, roads, hospitals or even HS2? Or maybe researchers for pharmaceutical companies?

The list is very long and the idea is unworkable, its not as if these people aren't being paid for what they're doing.