To Haringey for a Full Council meeting. For reasons that are unclear to me it was a very good humoured meeting. Not a common experience in the chamber where the usual sport is shouting at me individually or the LibDems collectively for daring to exist – let alone having the temerity to challenge the status quo.

By the time we got to council motions the public (there were none this time) and the media had long left. So only council members were left to pontificate amongst themselves on the local MP’s failure to vote against top-up fees, despite much previous media coverage of her ‘rebellion’.

More seriously, my concern is the number of Haringey’s young people who will now not go on to a university education because of debts they will incur. Whilst the government may argue that future graduates will pay back their debts out of their very high and advantaged earnings, many will find that if they go to worthy but lower-paid jobs, like teaching or working for voluntary organisations, they will have to pay back an extortionate tax rate out of very low income.