As the British state cuts funds to universities, it makes them turn increasingly to wealthy foreign students, whose money keeps them afloat.

This is, of course, bad for British students. But that's the general pattern: right-wing budget cuts are bad for nearly all the non-rich.

The cits were started by the Tory party when it stood purely and simply for dooH niboR (take from the poor and give to the rich). Now that the Tory Party has moved towards the extreme right, it sees this as an opportunity to knock down the non-rich and weaken them. The Labour Party of the past would have offered to undo the cuts, but now that it has become a center-right party it is not interested. (Here's the latest example of Labour's new alignment.)

Labour is also about to eliminate most of its planned investment in avoiding environmental disaster even as it courts business with deregulation.