Quintin Jardine's blog

If I was a Westminster MP, I’d have voted against the increase in university tuition fees that our Parliament passed this evening. As an elector I’m going to want to know how my local MP voted . . . although since I live in the champagne socialist republic of East Lothian I’m pretty sure how she did. However that does not mean that I approve for one second of any of the stuff that went on in London this evening in the guise of protest, anarchic conduct so violent that TV reporters were forced to wear hard hats, as if they were in a war zone. I can only hope that every person convicted of offences committed in these riots is banned from ever setting foot in a British university again, even after they’ve done the lengthy stretches which are warranted. Let the punishment fit the crime.