This is an amazing move by Labour and by Ed Miliband. At a stroke it is as near as you can get in politics to instant popularity. There can be no doubt at all in anyone's mind that the Coalition cocked up the Tuition Fee situation massively. Unheralded unpopularity ensued. It put paid to Nick Clegg and Cleggmania for starters, his awful flip-flop about-shift in this area is well documented already, no need for further ramblings or ravings from me. His crumbling ediface is evidence enough.
But to add to Cleggs misery the Tories pushed ahead with a rise in the fees to £9000, a staggering level, with Cameron insisting that only elite universities would charge this level of fees. I watched him utter those words. Of course silver spoon Cameron has never operated in the real world of work and business and lo and behold...it happened.. all universties including the belt and braces cloth cap concrete variety introduced the top rate.
Egg on governments face.
All this of course gave wide-eyed Ed wind under his sails and at Prime Ministers Questions in the House the young Miliband got stuck in. Picture shows him giving Mr Cameron a good finger wagging on the issue.
Now with this latest move he will have wrong footed the Prime Minister with this slash in tuition fees. Yes the puppet master and his woodentop dummy Clegg will have to burn the midnight oil to come up with a credible antidote to this fully funded move from Labour.
This move will go down very well with our student fraternity.
