Do you want Swedish meat balls with your tuition fees?

Michael Gove is always keen to quote “The Swedish Model” when discussing the perfect approach to education.

So let’s follow his example and quote the Swedish model for university education – it’s free to all EU citizens.

Or we could quote the Danish model or the Finnish or Norwegian one, or how about the Polish one? All free to EU citizens.

What do they know that we don’t?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/sep/15/students-university-netherlands-scandinavia

This whole tuition fee debacle is simply a backdoor to force people from poorer backgrounds into other forms of non-academic, vocational HE. It is a disastrous abandonment of fundamental Liberal Democrat principles and, if the parliamentary party doesn’t have the balls and the integrity to oppose it, it should be met by the fiercest opposition by the rank and file.

I wonder what’s involved in calling for a vote of no confidence in the leadership now that we’ve had all the clap-trap about “voters can now sack their MP”? Whatever it is, will the membership have the gumption to mobilise and take them to task? They’ve shown great restraint until now and the party does seem to be well and truly over – in every respect…