It has not gone unnoticed that MPs have been utterly cowardly in contributing to any debate about these issues, with the notable exception of David T C Davies. Their failure to engage in rational debate and to uphold democratic values has allowed discourse around this issue to become increasingly toxic, and ultimately to produce a fascistic silencing of the mainstream, rational view that women do not have penises. MPs, while claiming a salary to represent us, have been happy for their constituents to face threats, violence and loss of jobs in order to speak up about women's rights to single-sex provision in spaces where they are vulnerable. I can't recall there ever being such cowardice and abdication of responsibility in Parliament.

Norway and Ireland, for example, have a higher % of the population going to university, as do Luxembourg, Sweden and Lithuania. However, you are correct in that higher education is delivered much much cheaply in those countries - larger class sizes, fewer resources, and less flashy buildings, no pastoral care, for example.

Fees have not gone up since tuition fees were bought in in 2011 (and were set at the level at which the government had previously subsidised each student), but the recently-passed Higher Education Bill will see the start of fee inflation and will make the perception that the Tories have it in for young people all the stronger.

While you (I don't mean you, personally, but the Party in general) continue to refer to the abolition of tuition fees as a "bribe" and to sneer at young people for voting to have the opportunity for free higher education that every other young person in mainland Europe has, the Conservative party will continue to build its own demise.

The assumption here is that the under 35s are voting Labour. It's worse than that, an Ashcroft poll has just shown a swing to Labour in the 35-44 age group (50% of whom voted for Labour, 30% Tory). These are not kids, but people midway through their careers and usually with mortgages (though some not having managed to get on the housing ladder). I fall into this category and generally see myself as politically centre ground, with no particular affiliation to any party (I've flip-flopped between three parties over the last three general elections). I could not contemplate voting Tory on this occasion because:

1. The claim that Tories are the party to be trusted with the economy is no longer even vaguely credible considering the cliff-top Brexit that was being talked about. As someone in a job that is vulnerable to the economy, and who has a large mortgage, I favour a pragmatic approach to Brexit rather than a reckless one. The Tories seemed inclined to pursue a Brexit that would stick two fingers up to the EU to keep the tabloids happy, however destructive that might be economically.
2. On that subject, the party has made an obvious lurch to the right to mop up the UKIP vote. I was dismayed at the rhetoric that was emerged from the party conference, especially around shaming employers of foreigners. That may have played well with Farage's fans, I guess, but not with me, my friends, or colleagues, who started to detect a xenophobic tone within the party. If you shift your rhetoric to the right, you start to lose those centre-ground swing voters that Cameron managed to secure.
3. I did not appreciate the constant appeasement of the red-tops, and found the failure of May to condemn the dangerous undermining of our parliamentary democracy and judiciary by the Mail very worrying. I felt quite optimistic when she took office and gave that speech outside No 10 last July, but having to call the snap election, for me, was a sign of someone who had failed as a leader to bring people together and build consensus (the outcome of the election, of course, vindicates that perception). Either that or she simply wanted to stamp out any opposition which, coming at the same time as the Turkish referendum and the general global threat to democracy, carried worrying implications. Even before the manifesto was launched, I'd decided there was no way I would be voting for her.

Returning to the issue of young people, I teach in a top 10 university, and feel very sad at the way in which prospects for young people have declined sharply in the 15 years I've been doing the job. I find the sneering attitude of many older people towards them distasteful - free university tuition should not be seen as an outrageous bribe when it's something that all other European countries manage to provide. Certainly this is no more of a "bribe" than the goodies that have been offered to older voters in the past in Conservative manifestos (hence the outrage when they were unexpectedly withdrawn this time).

The Conservative party is going to have to look carefully at how it addresses these two groups - the young, and those mid-career types. I strongly believe that the cliche of people becoming more likely to vote Tory as they get older is not going to prevail as this particular generation - indebted, not owning the kinds of assets their parents' generation did, and unable to contemplate retirement - ages.

As a resident in one of the villages in the north of this constituency, I have to take issue with the claim that services have not been cut. The roads around here are so eroded from potholes that they are positively dangerous, and we have lost the bus route serving the village, as well as the mobile library. There is, we are told, no money, to deal with potholes, and so road damage that was reported last December has still not been dealt with. The recycling centre is also being closed down, though luckily, being on the doorstep of Warwickshire, we can use their facilities. I would favour a modest increase in council tax to address some of these issues, particularly the condition of the roads, which all visitors to our village are shocked by.

800 new homes is also all well and good, but there is a chronic shortage of GPs in the area, and the maternity unit has just been closed down because it can't recruit clinical staff, so a journey of one hour plus to Oxford is now necessary for women in labour.