I have mixed feelings about all this to be honest.
Firstly: The right to protest is ****ing important, and if the police decide to ban marches in the capital I personally will go join future marches in the capital, and I imagine a lot of my friends will too. Purely to protest the ban on protests.
With regard to tuition fees: The problem here is twofold. The last government encouraged the majority to pursue a bachelors degree, which was a stupid thing to do, meaning we've now got complete cretins with bachelors degrees, devaluing the qualification. It also means that a large proportion of full-time students could be in full-time employment, benefitting the economy in the short term instead of chasing qualifications that will be of no use to anybody.
But the universities have geared up to accept the increase in applications, so to discourage the majority of students from applying now would mean having to scale back the universities' capacity, resulting in more job losses, loss of revenue, etc.
But my biggest beef with all this is that - primarily as a government spending cut in reaction to an economic recession which was caused by a complete disregard for enormous levels of debt - I find it completely irresponsible to encourage school leavers to begin their professional lives with five-figure debts as if it's a perfectly sensible and normal thing for people to do.
And that's why I support the tuition fees protests.