SIR – Our so called political leaders seem to be entering a phase of playground politics it is interesting to note that even TV presenters and other political commentators have taken up this chant of “Is it fair?”.

They then proceed to ask “Is it fair that people who won’t go to university should pay for those who will?” or “should someone who is homeless be placed in a property that an ordinary working family could not possibly hope to rent?”.

The one thing they never seem to discuss as being unfair is that ordinary people are paying for the mess the greedy bankers got us into. That area of debate seems to have been lost.

“We are all in this together,” they say, when all they do in both speeches and policies is to divide the nation by vilifying people on benefits as scroungers or immigrants who live off the backs of ordinary people.

What they have done by increasing tuition fees is to unite the majority of the young generation into taking political action in their demonstrations.

In one fell swoop they have politicised hundreds of thousands of future voters, so I suppose in a strange way they are doing something right.

Max Hey, Fairway Grove, Bradford