Can’t find any BBC report on this (Got to be one somewhere surely!?)

Student loans to Bulgarians and Romanians frozen

Loans to students from the two countries frozen after “suspicious” surge in the number enrolling at British colleges

 

Definitely no BBC report on this:

When it comes to Europe, we’ve been mugged

I’m seething. But not half as angry as my constituent.

Her daughter had studied hard and been accepted by a good university. She had just started life as a fresher. Mum was so proud, busying herself with the sort of things that proud mums do when their daughter goes off to university.

No one imagined that that that irksome delay with the Student Loan whatsit was anything to fret about.

Because my constituent, and her family, had lived for a while in Germany, the Student Loan Company wanted more details. How long had she lived in Germany? Was she normally resident here?

Spend two minutes talking to my constituent, and it is perfectly obvious she – and her daughter – are as British as a post box.

But it is ticking the boxes on the application form that counts. And because she had lived in Germany for a short time, her application for a student loan was rejected. Despite a very understanding Vice Chancellor, she has now had to drop out of university.

Try to imagine how that family in Clacton might now feel, when they read that student loans to Bulgarians and Romanians have just been suspended.

 

 

However the BBC weren’t always so slow on examining student loan disasters….from 2010:

Firm ‘confident’ no repeat on student loan delays

Boryana Dimitrova, applying from Bulgaria, told the BBC she had had to send an identity document three times before the company managed to locate it – despite it having acknowledged receiving a form sent in the same envelope.

 

 

Great that we pay for foreign students, whom many of which no doubt, won’t pay back the loan….but also that the BBC covers up once again the EU free for all….free that is except for you and me who pays for it….and positively seeks out foreign hard luck stories, no doubt to make us think we are all one big happy European family.

 

The BBC does have time for this though…..a full report on a bit of banter at PMQs:

Cameron’s Commons drugs ‘banter’ angers MP Meacher

 

The second most important political story on the BBC website!

 

Oh and this is even more important…on the frontpage:

David Cameron follows ‘high-class escorts’ on Twitter

 

oh look….way, way down at the bottom after the BBC has headlined the story:

The site speculated that the Prime Minister – or more likely, an aide – might have been looking for the Carlton Club, a private members club for supporters of the Conservative Party…..’which bills itself as the “oldest and most important of all Conservative clubs”.

 

So another non-story….but too good a chance not to smear the PM on the frontpage of one of the world’s biggest news broadcasters.