“Mr. Sensible ...
Have you yet detected my deliberate spelling mistake?.”

“Mr. Sensible, The Real World. ....
Your eloquence would be significantly enhanced, if only you could spell correctly.
You Poor fellow!, obviously a failure of our educatioinal system.....”

“Captain sensible--how is it costing the government through student loans. I thought the term 'student loans' may be a give away--its a loan made to the students--not a gift like the giros issued to the losers of this country. Unlike benefit scroungers the loans DO have to be paid back”

“John there are 2 problems with that statement.

The first is that the Tories were waxing lirical about the so called need for cuts during the election campaign, but the Liberal Democrats didn't buy this. Now they do.

The second is that this policy on higher education is actually costing the taxpayer money. Why? Because the number of institutions charging over £6000 has surprise surprise turned out to be more than the government thought. As a result, the government is having to pay out more in student lones, thus a deficit, and if a lot of students fail to pay off the debt this will get worse.

Helen, what do you mean?

And like I say, it is the taxpayer who is losing out as a result of this for the reasons I've just given.”

“Mr Sensible, the tuition fee issue has nothing to do with a Lib-Dem promice (your spelling, not mine). Election manifestos and party election promises disintegrate when a new government discovers the reality of a mountain of debt created by a previous regime whose survival was based on spend, spend, spend. As a nation we are broke and we can no longer afford to subsidise the higher education system to the level it has enjoyed for such a long time.
You need to get yourself a visa to travel to the Real World, Mr Sensible.”

“I worry that Trent are staying £500 under the £9K to duck the issue of encouraging kids from deprived areas. Come on Trent, you are trying to compete with Nottingham Uni but not giving the same service.”

“Mr. S, can you please remind me which administration promised to not introduce university tuition fees and then introduced them? I keep forgetting, just like you...”

“Hello Mr Sensible. Communists and scum had it good for 13 years, so now it's the taxpayer's turn to have a few perks..”

“Exactly what percentage of universities across the country are now charging at or near the full amount?

The Coalition's record on universities is one of broken promice, after broken promice, after broken promice. The Liberal Democrats said in their 2010 manifesto that they would look to scrap tuition fees in the long term - they've increased them to between 200 and 300% of current levels, they said £9000 would be the exception - it's the norm, they did it with the motivation of saving the taxpayer money - it's costing money, and finally they said places would be allocated on ability to learn not ability to pay, but last week David Willitts announced plans to offer off-quota places effectively for the rich.

Given all that, is Nick Clegg proud of his record on universities and higher education?”

“University these days is just like being on the dole but your Mum's proud of you.”