In message , at 13:46:32 on
Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Paul Weaver remarked:
Vague memory says I paid 80 pounds a term for a bedsit at Trinity, and I
was a few years after you. Grants were something like 1400 for the year

So, no fees and twice the grant, and you didn't have to pay it back

The grant was linked to parental income. The equivalent of about 30K
today would mean you didn't get a maintenance grant (parents had to
pay).

It's a good example of "be careful what you wish for". The current
situation has been largely brought about by pressure from students whose
parents refused to contribute under the old scheme - those students then
saying they'd rather have a loan than be penniless.

Then soon as you got into government you decided the rest of us wouldn't
have that.

See above.

And of course in 0 years time we'll have to pay for your pension too.

You are a generation out of synch. The people who got the best deal were
those who are now in their 60's and 70's. They retired (often early)
during the 80's and early 90's on pensions linked to their final salary.
Such schemes are now turning to dust (as are independent funds, raided
for stealth tax by Gordon) for those in their 40's and 50's.
--
Roland Perry