With the announcement of a national demonstration on the day of the fees vote Oxford Right To Work activists immediately committed themselves to supporting students getting to London.  A letter from the Cheney Joint protest group requesting support for the student protests was taken to Oxfordshire Health branch of UNISON who agreed to pay for a coach as many of their members had students in the family that would be deterred from university with increased tuition fees.  An appeal was made to oxford and District Trades Council with the response of support from the NASUWT who donated £200 towards the coaches.  Ruskin UCU also booked a coach. In all three coaches went from Oxford to the London demo filled with students from Ruskin, Oxford Uni, Cherwell, Cheney, European School, St. Gregory's, Wood Green and Oxford school to name a few.

They say a week is a long time in politics.   In this case half a day was longer.  Having successfully split the Liberal vote in the Coalition students connected with the vicious side of the Coalition government in the form of the London Metropolitan Police who threatened, bullied, charged, assaulted and kettled (denied, movement, food, water, warmth and toilet) to tens of thousands of people for wanting to protest outside parliament where their futures were being decided.  The organisers managed to negotiate the with the drivers to hold the coaches long enough to get most people back to Oxford together. One student stayed behind to collect the remaining two who found themselves kettled to 11 pm on Westminster bridge without any way of getting home.

Despite the harsh treatment meted out the students were unbowed and determined to carry on the fight to end fees.