I used to respect the Liberals and then the Lib Dems, but they're rapidly and irretrievably sliding into an abyss of toryism from which they'll never recover, in my eyes at least. (Labour are already there, I should add.)
My brother brought this home to me. Three kids, up to £9K per year in tuition fees for 3 years each, add on books etc, and that's already £100K. You can at least double that for accommodation and general living expenses, and you're looking at an outlay if getting on for a quarter of a million quid just to get his family a basic university education (basic being the word) according to the "education for all" mantra that we get rammed down our throats.
And don't forget that to be able to do anything with a uni degree these days you need FURTHER training, hence the new con of getting students to pay up for an MSc, which in most cases is worthless because just about everybody who is daft enough to pay for one gets one.
THE FANTASTIC JOBS THAT WILL SEE ALL THESE PEOPLE EARNING HIGH WAGES SO THEY CAN START TO PAY BACK THEIR LOANS DO NOT EXIST! (Except for a tiny minority of graduates.)
This is one of the biggest con jobs ever perpetrated on an entire nation, and it will (is designed to, perhaps) reinforce the gap between the poor, who while educated will always remain in relative poverty due to a lifetime of debt, and the rich who can merely soak it all up.