population. all paid for by the government. can you imagine what that did to the national debt? obviously it skyrocketed and the reason there are those huge masses outside the conservative party offices is because they want to triple the rate. it s still pennies on the dollar compared to the united states stimulus. they are marching for their inalienable right to have their three years of drinking, drugging and whoring paid for by taxpayers often much poorer than these middle class kids. is that fair? i don t think so. here s the other thing, you say that while some around the world have this image of british education as being fantastic, it s not. no. and that was a consequence of this drive to send more kids to university. what happened was you ended up getting what you called mickey mouse courses being set up by these universities, wind surfing studies, golf course management, media studies. a survey showed that actually kids who had studied media studies at the university