On 30 January, the National Union of Students launched our Manifesto for our Future which represents the aspirations of the millions of students across the UK. We developed these ideas based on consultation with over 10,000 students. Regular polling has afforded us a clear picture of the big issues for today’s students. At our annual democratic conference, one of the largest gatherings of elected students in Europe, we come together and deliberate on the world we want to see. Specifically for the Manifesto, we launched ‘What Students Think’: an interactive polling platform which asked students to rank their election priorities. We got a clear signal from 7,459 students on their priorities, giving us a total of 97,472 answers.
So, what do all of these students think? Honestly, the future is looking bleak. The cost-of-living crisis, the crisis in the NHS, the mental health crisis, the housing crisis, the climate crisis. We’re becoming the Crisis Generation.
To change the future, we have to act now. We need a radical, new vision for our future that disrupts the crisis cycle and prioritises quality of life and protecting our planet. As an absolute bare minimum, we need a government willing to alleviate the impacts of the crisis cycle on people’s lives here and now.
