"… how many young men down the years have turned up on dates armed with chocolates in the hope that this will result in a romantic tumble in the bedroom later on..."

- having consulted anthropoligists and historians...none in the last fifty years at any rate: showing his age somewhat with this one.

On "Education, Education Education" he appears to miss that the main aim of the policy was to park large numbers of unrequired young people out the way because there were too few job oppertunities... thus fiddling the unemployment figures and indeed getting them to take on student loans, thereby effectively paying for several years of their own unemployment whilst essentially on a papershuffle.

The debasement the higher education sector and it's qualifications was an easy price to pay, whilst starting a career as a serious debtor would doubtless make for a more maliable workforce...and of course introduce the young people into their new "rentier" future.

He is of course correct on the continuing fetishisation of the private sector...and on that I notice my Postman Pat of yore with the his little red van and gold crown logo is now a dude in a glow-vest driving an "Arnold Clarke self hire."