personally, they (league tables) are great, thanks for linking to them!
they remain about half as useful as The Student Room forums of knowledge, and
they are a great starting point, BUT, they miss out that "order by value for money" column.
I don't worry about who is going to be in the top three, as I consider only two of the top 3 candidates as really VFM.
I'd also like to see benchmarking against Swedish Universities, Dutch, Irish even USA - for VFM, there would be some surprises