Peter I don’t think you should be boasting about your exploits in chucking stuff at the police, to us kids, as you think of us. Actually I’m over 40 and I did spend every Saturday going on a demonstration to save the world from Thatcherism all through the nineteen eighties – though even in those days I was the one with a stewards armband going ‘no, please don’t jump over that barrier’. Of course no-one is saying that tuition fees are something to be glad about. I would rather talk about all the policies to be proud of : the first ever minimum wage, Surestart, Tax Credits, After School Clubs, Investment in the NHS – things that are part of Labour’s values. We are not scared of the Daily Mail! Personally I would wear it as a badge of honour if they burned me at the stake (metaphorically). Tuition fees were a hard hard decision, the Labour Party has grown up. We no longer just write a big long wish list of everything we want to do straight away and say we will pay for it with higher taxes and massive Government borrowing. You sound like a chap with a good degree in economics – you must know more about the perils of irresponsible Government fiscal policy for the economy and jobs, than I do? I lived through the 1980’s mass unemployment was evil. Labour lost 4 elections in a row. Good intentions and sacred principles did not get a single child out of poverty.

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