29 versus 28

While no one can condone the violence that has come out of the student protests in London, it is true to say (as I have several times) that you don't get this kind of emotive gestures when there's a Labour government.

The sad truth is that Conservatives don't give a fig about the future generations, because their kids are okay. Thatcher dismantled the future of that generation's children and now Blackadder and Baldrick, along with Lord Snooty are doing the same now. I believe that our students have to pay for their education eventually, but I also want to see a fair system which we are patently not getting.

29 LibDem MPs either voted against this proposal or abstained. Nick 'Baldrick' Clegg cannot call his party united, by any stretch of his imagination. Especially as they only have 57 MPs.

Clegg is effectively a Dead Man Walking in political terms. He will struggle to get re-elected at the next election and will watch his party get systematically targeted at the next local government elections to the point where they will become as effective as the BNP - and about as well liked. We witnessed a monumental turning point in British politics today. But now the LibDems have been effectively destroyed, it really is time to turn on the Tories; to kick the Liberals while they're down is a waste of time and energy.