Dr Eliza Filby
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294 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 May
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But if you are earning a lot, the more you pay and the more, you know, the more you're seeing go out of your wage packet, suddenly the student graduate premium doesn't look like, you know, what you were led to believe it should look like.
And I think the...
Again, it's this growing up in an economy where work doesn't pay.
And if work doesn't pay, the return on the investment of your education isn't there either.
And I think you combine student loans crisis, and it is a loans crisis.
A lot of people are now talking about the government like it's the worst kind of loan shark.
And I think there's a huge justification.
The way that they've tweaked
the loan means that people are legitimate when saying, you know, that's not the agreement that I signed up for.
And also that it's all slightly done in stealth and secret and incrementally so that, you know, it's a bit like the fiscal drag.
No one really kind of knows or notices what's happening, but actually you look at your payslip and it's a considerable amount that's coming out each month.
That's where the sense of grievance comes from.
And you combine that in, you know, a low wage economy where we don't have the same growth in wages that you have in the US,
and you combine that with the level of taxation on wages as opposed to taxation on wealth, there's a legitimate grievance there for sure.
I think what's interesting is how is the government going to respond?
I think, and this goes back to my earlier point, is that throughout the 2010s there were student protests around student fees, there was lots of talk about the intergenerational gap, lots of talk about boomers have had it all and their kids have had nothing, but there was no political ramifications of that because the Tories were totally in sup to the boomers and not enough young people voted.
I think now that's starting to change.
And one of the reasons why I think that is politically, this is difficult for Labour because of the impact potentially it might have on people switching to the Greens.
But I think it's also a sense of young people have been screwed for a long time.
And there's a sense that their parents are starting to realise it.
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