You'll notice I've put very little effort into this strip, confident as I am that you will lose and therefore no-one will read this strip!
Like anyone would read it anyway.
So, er... stall, stall... any relation to Colette Smith?!?
Put it this way: I'm no relation to John Smith!
Oh, by the way, on the matter of the restoration of student grants - Colin may be interested to note that it was Ken Clarke who, as Education Secretary in the 1980s, oversaw the transfomation...
...of the old polytechnics into new universities. The result was that 40% of the school-leaving population now go to 'university': thus making it far too expensive ever to reintroduce grants!