Tim Hames, writing in this mornings edition of The Times points out that

Universities are, crudely, factory farms for social liberalism

which they may well be, but I for one am utterly delighted in the massive explosion in the size of Blighty’s universities. Forget if you will dear readers the nonsense about having to rename the old Polytechnics so that students reading something useful didn’t feel disadvantaged when compared with their classics reading university brethren - it can only be a good thing that so many young people, despite the emasculation of the A-levels exam system, now attend what is euphemistically know as ‘further education’.

I don’t care if these slack jawed, gum chewing yoffs are all reading Media Studies or a BSc in Applied Facebook & the piece of paper that they will emerge with in 3 years time will be completely worthless in the real world … Nu-Liebours inspired Student Loans scheme ensures that graduates now enter the real world saddled with debt (a bit like the rest of us). Now if that isn’t an incentive to get them voting for any party that espouses low tax, I don’t know what is.