a bunch of young people, whose votes were assiduously courted by Nick "no tuition fees, honest" Clegg, are a bit pissed off that when he was given the chance of a bit of power, he turned his back on what he'd promised them and have actually got the energy to complain about it.

Still, given time, they'll just become jaded, cynical and realise there's no point protesting and become apathetic just like the rest of us.

..goes right by Millbank Tower.

I'll take your tenner. There's no way that the SWP/SWSS could organise 50,000 students, 500 maybe.

must be feeling a bit pissed off, the Lib Dems enrage students by abandoning their opposition to tuition fees and the students attack Tory HQ. Truly. we are all in this together!

Student uprising?

When did this last happen in the UK

But as John Lydon once remarked of the Sex Pistols, some things happen simply because they should.

who ruin it for everyone else.

These dim students have only gone and attacked the wrong building! The Conservative Party's campaign HQ is next door!

Sorry if this all sounds a bit simplistic but I sat in my car this morning on the Strand while thousands of students passed by on their way to the demo. I have to admit that I was genuinely excited by it and even more thrilled when I heard that that they had broken into Tory HQ. For the last few years the vast majority of the people (not just students) have been shat upon by the government in this country particularly during and after the banking crisis. The lower and middle classes are paying for the greed of The City whilst the top earners avoid paying their dues and this country is fast becoming a 'have and have not' society.

Its about bloody time there was some civil unrest. Bring it on! Let's hope it escalates..

The Levellers have timed their comeback well haven't they?

as to the perpetrators.

And it is indeed both wrong in principle and counter-productive in practice to smash up private property.

However I hope I can be forgiven for finding a crowd of students trashing Tory HQ to be hugely amusing.

Would it have been the top item on the news had it not 'degenerated' into violence?

I think not, myself.

The anti-war demo was peaceful and look how effective that was. Perhaps it's the natural progression for people who are dictated to by, basically, a section of the upper classes. In 2010.

I think some people have noticed the French response to being dictated to, at least at certain points in time, and reached the conclusion that the (piss) artists formerly known as 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' are currently nothing of the sort. It's us that are laying down and taking it.

I'm with them. It's hard going being a student now. Unless you've got a 7 million pound trust fund that you don't pay tax on. Eh, George?

When they had a photograph of the peaceful march on the BBC News. Lots of identical placards, obviously handed out by the NUS, plus a large homemade sign that read, "I ONLY POPPED OUT FOR A BOTTLE OF MILK".

The film of the bunch of protestors kicking in the window seemed to show they were outnumbered by the police standing around watching them. Were they waiting for a risk assessment to be carried or was it break time? In the 1980's the truncheons would have been out.

Yes, let's hear it for mob rule.

it took me to get home last night, living in the vicinity of Millbank. Bloody students. I drove by it this morning and it's a mess - and the grafitti! Surely it's agitators rather than students, though. I agree with them, but I wrecking property while getting them noticed will not help their cause. The ones interviewed on the news - all called Charlie, Nell and Jack, etc., just sounded priviliged and dumb. It won't play well.

The millions of coaches going the other way last night seemed to have a lot of very fed up looking students in them, perhaps ashamed and embarrassed that their peaceful protest had been hijacked by the usual suspects.

only option left to us here in Ireland if we have any hope of getting our Government out. They seem to think that constantly telling us that 'we're turning the corner' is proof that we're in capable hands! As for buying a house, I'm 41 and still haven't bought and now that the banks have stopped lending I'll probably never get one.

who's hardly an examplar of the hard left (she's 65 and my dad's pushing 70, both usually fairly middle of road politically) told me what her reaction to it all was when she saw it on the news last night:

"I cheered, and was glad someone's had the balls to open their mouth to this bunch of idiots and DO something"

Hey, how did this so quickly turn into a mortgage discussion? It's true what they say.

Hooray for the kids. Sometimes it takes a riot. This is great.

We've gone through a 20 year decline in youth political engagement. people have been complaining about this sorry state of affairs for years. And now it looks like the kids might be waking up from their oversaturated culture, and looking around themselves instead. Sure its motivated by self-interest, but thats where all injustices are fought from. A healthy society needs regular checks and balances, and rioting - popular rioting - can be as important an ingredient to a healthy society as can an effective broadband network or exchange rate mechanism.

... what he said.

I was in SWSS, I was a former comp schoolboy and an ex-plasterer's apprentice to boot. Thus the public schoolie thang is a bit of a canard. Damn right on Lenin tho....

.. among whom I suppose I now have to number myself - are a bit terrified of civic uproar. They/we find it reassuring to think its a load of well brought up kids having a momentary aberration. But it IS reasonable to assume that it will be posher kids involved if its a university students demo. Fair play to them I think, what's going on is absolute daylight robbery and our politicians are just acting as the tipstaffs to the banks

Oh my god, it is the 1980's, now weve even got a bloody royal wedding on the way!

Bloody disgrace. Lock 'em up and throw away the key. Bring back national service.

Oh,they're in the Bullingdon Club you say. Oh well, boys will be boys.

...as do lots of people who don't work for the Tories. It's a big place. Her office was smashed to pieces. It's a bit like smashing up 1 Canada Square (Canary Wharf tower) because you don't like the Daily Mirror.