A Student fees rally last Saturday once again turned into a scuffle between police and students.

The rally started as a peaceful march through the city of Manchester.

Thousands of students attended, holding a variety of banners, some even showing their support to the recent demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia.

A group of around 30 Lincoln University students attended the demonstration.
Students rallied together at Platt Fields Park where various members of the NUS and trade unions gave speeches.

During the rally students seemed to be angry towards the NUS and kept calling for President Aaron Porter to show his face.

The largely peaceful atmosphere turned angry towards the end of the rally.

One of the students Lucy Tonks, from Liverpool University, explained her anger towards the NUS.
She said: “I don’t trust the NUS anymore mainly because our Student Union isn’t doing anything to fight the cuts.

“The NUS has sold us out, they have been talking to politicians and they aren’t doing anything in support for the student movement,” she continued.

Aaron Porter was planning to speak at the rally but decided to pull out after protesters turned violent towards him and demanded his resignation.

A group of students pulled out of the rally and made there way back into town, chanting

‘Die Cameron, f**king die’.

The police were trying to force the group back to the park but were unsuccessful.

The angry crowd gathered at Oxford Road and started chanting ‘Your jobs next’ to workers inside the HSBC and Lloyds.

The group turned more violent when police tried to stop them, and even started insulting police officers.
In the end 16 arrests were made.

Lincoln University students were mostly disappointed about these clashes with the police, as they felt it would put a dark spin on an otherwise peaceful rally.