Age: 21

Current voting intention: Tom has been thinking about voting for the Liberal Democrats for a few weeks. Now he's certain.

Key election issues: maintaining public service spending; student top-up fees.

Trivia: Tom plays right mid-field for the University football team. He also keeps fit by running several miles three or four times a week. He was once given a guitar as a present and so taught himself how to play it, favouring "cheesy stuff". He describes himself as "enthusiastic" and "up-beat".

So, should he be enthusiastic about the general election?

Has Tom got it all wrong? Click here to send him your view

Clearly you are a principled, right-thinking fellow with a strong social conscience. And though I can appreciate the good intentions of the Liberal Democrats, one must temper principles with pragmatism in how to achieve them. I would ask you to consider the social-justice oriented tax-proposals that the Tories have in mind; The principle of the neediest in society not paying tax and reducing tax for lower earners. The Conservatives have always stood for freeing people from the state and giving them dignity and allowing even a humble wage to raise a family. Someone as principled and right-thinking as yourself, would be all the more principled and well-rounded to think whether this would be in line with your views.
Andrew W L Miller, London

Stick to your intentions, Tom. The Lib Dems are the only main party to oppose the war and they admit we need tax rises. Why waste your vote on anyone else.
Mike Peatman, Lancaster

Does Tom realise that under the Lib Dems he could end up having to pay far more local tax once he finishes university? Under their plans to introduce a local income tax a flat/house with 3 or 4 graduates sharing could pay double what they would on council tax. Although the Lib Dems have proposed scrapping tuition and top-up fees these plans would take some time to come into effect and Tom needs to be careful that he's voting for issues that will affect him once he's finished university.
Jason, London

To all students, I am also a student and I urge them to vote Tory. I would like to remind them that Labour said they would not introduce top up fees and they did - they simply cannot be trusted. The Conservative party is the only party that can actually come to power and is the only party therefore that can scrap tuition fees! Labour spends more on the NHS and Education but they have not been spending the money effectively. The Tories are committed to increasing spending on both but by letting individual hospitals and schools spend it themselves because Whitehall bureaucrats cannot be expected to control the budget of every school and hospital in the country. As for the Lib Dems, they've made huge spending increases part of which may be paid by tax rises which may stifle our economy but mostly cannot be afforded!
Anand Karia, London

Wow, need to get into the real world, kids. The economic and environmental health future of the UK is going to be totally dwarfed by industrialisation, resource demands, pollution and consumerism of India and China. Huge need to sort out educational and environmental health issues fast - and who is it going to affect the most? The young, whose consumer-rich, polluting and currently safe lifestyle will come under major change very soon. That's before we start talking local issues like the explosion in sexually transmitted disease, pension crisis, stagnation in the north sea and demographic shift - oh, and Kyoto! Time to forget the hair gel and clothes, start horizon-scanning what's going to cause you major hassle in 2020 and beyond.
Christopher, Norwich

As Tom seems the sportiest of the bunch he ought to do something about the diet in the student house.
Fiona Beckett, St Albans

This guy is clearly clued up to the issues that really matter to Britain. If only all students could follow his example. Public spending is important and the abolition of top up fees is vital so that students arn't riddled with a mass of debt when they leave university.
Martin Lodziak, Cambridge

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