Despite rising A level grades, it’s a genuine question: are A level students fundamentally stupid? When lots of young students who’d just reached 18 saw the leadership debates, I wonder how many of them were realistically thinking of the near future. OK, they would argue that they took Nick Clegg and Vince Cable at face value in promising no cuts, but you don’t expect me to be that stupid, do you? Here is a typical view of students in the election campaign, here with Julian Huppert MP, winning Liberal Democrat candidate in Cambridge.

These students voted for Nick Clegg like turkeys voting for christmas. I have absolutely no sympathy for them now. A good argument is that Labour commissioned the Lord Browne report, and therefore the conclusion would have been the same had Labour still been in power. The outcome seems to be not in favour of a graduate tax but to be in favour on no upper cap for how much Universities can charge for their tuition fees.

So why did you vote for Nick Clegg then?

You’ve only got yourselves to blame.