HOW many students voted Labour in May and helped Tony Blair into Downing Street? How many are not bitterly regretting this decision?

The outrageous decision to tax students to learn is typical of a government which promised so much and now cannot deliver unless it snatches cash from those least likely to be able to afford it.

Many members of the Cabinet benefited from a university education, but now they want to banish young talent from higher education establishments.

They say that nobody from a less well-off family will have to pay, but the figure is to be set so artificially low that only the rich will be able to afford to send their children to university.

This is typical of Labour's short-sightedness. By denying clever young people a place at university, they jeopardise the very future of our country since they fail to invest in the brainpower that will be needed in decades to come.

B GAVIN, Jessel Street, Blackburn.

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