That leaves the party a bit behind the fogeyish Conservatives, who attract 18% of students, and far behind Labour, who attract 55%.
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There was much to be admired, even if his fogeyish views led the newly ennobled presenter to be mocked as 'Lord Clark of "Civilisation".
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"I'M SORRY to say that I was young once," drawled Jacob Rees-Mogg, a prematurely fogeyish 48-year-old MP, to a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference.
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After one too many students called me by my first name and sent me email that resembled a drunken late-night Facebook post, I took a very fogeyish step.
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After one too many students called a professor by her first name and sent her emails that resembled drunken late-night Facebook posts, she took a very fogeyish step.
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And although Mr Rees-Mogg has a reputation for being a rather grand, fogeyish type, I was profoundly impressed watching him respond as his voters unburdened their woes on him.
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Some of his provocations, like a paranoid riff on vaccinations, seem less than fully formed; and the show loses its comic zest in some of his fogeyish umbrage over sensitivity to transgender people.
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There's the Bukowski-quoting, self-styled literary bad boy; the American Redditor who addresses people as "sir;" and, in Scotland, the kind of fogeyish young patriot who makes a big deal of the fact that they prefer ceilidhs to raves.
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" Another controversial cultural topic—Soundcloud/emo rap—gets an unexpectedly positive response from the at-times fogeyish Grohl, who even corrects Heaf when he mistakenly identifies Lil Pump as "the so-called 'Soundcloud rap star' who overdosed on Xanax and coke late last year.
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"Middle-class memes for Rees-Moggian teens", a Facebook group populated by young folk who want the fogeyish Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative MP, to be prime minister, describes the Battle of Hastings as "when the Norman William the Bastard usurped the throne from King Harold".
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Betjeman's poems are often humorous, and in broadcasting he exploited his bumbling and fogeyish image. His wryly comic verse is accessible and has attracted a great following for its satirical and observant grace. Auden said in his introduction to Slick But Not Streamlined, "so at home with the provincial gaslit towns, the seaside lodgings, the bicycle, the harmonium." His poetry is similarly redolent of time and place, continually seeking out intimations of the eternal in the manifestly ordinary.
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