His main policy aim seems to be no more student accommodation, which is fair enough, but hardly the most pressing issue on the Major's desk.
It's more pressing than you think. As a previous article alluded to, students don't pay council tax. The council gets a subsidy of £9m from the government to cover this, but that is being stopped in 2020.
On top of that, as I see it, the city has an uphill battle to retain. students. They stick around for a few years, but once they realise it is very hard to break out of the low rung jobs' market and crack the upper, more professional tier, the more ambitious ones bog off.
Plus, Pinnacle, the company which was building student blocks on London Road and Shaw Street seems to be in trouble. I've not read any news about it but work on both has ground to a halt.
If anybody knows different I'm quite happy to be corrected. But to my mind, as things stand the student market in Liverpool is a ticking time bomb and the arse could literally fall out if it at any time. This "put all your eggs in one basket" approach could prove disastrous.