"It was the Times Higher Education Supplement, Jim, not the Telegraph"
NO - IT WAS THE TELEGRAPH
Nothing to do with expectations
And please don't tell me about my home town; I was there a couple of weeks ago and I know how cheap it is.
The point you were making was a superficial one - it is the lingering debt that is the problem with student loans and they follow you for years to wherever you come from and wherever you end up
One of the great Thatcher legacies was the situation where, if you need work, the soft South east underbelly is the main place in Britain guaranteed to meet your needs - try paying back your loan and paying London prices for accommodation if you need to work there
I left Liverpool in the late sixties because I couldn't find work and nobody can tell me things have improved since them
"I mentioned what the payments required under the student scheme would be for people earning that sort of salary"
And I pointed out that I wasn't referring to those drawing that sort of salary - I was pointing to the reports which are saying that students fees are excluding the lower paid
Your "good meal" was just a hackneyed Tebbit-like response to that situation - not unrelated to "If they drank less", or "had less children", or didn't fritter their money away on colour teles or the betting shop"
Jim Carroll