Revolting Students
The students of University College London have passed a nasty little motion against allowing the armed forces to recruit from among their number:
The UCL motion, proposed by Sham Rajyaguru, stated: "This Union believes that because the British military under the Labour Government is currently engaged in an aggressive war overseas, for the Union to use its resources to encourage students to join the military or participate in military recruitment activities at this time would give political and material support to the war."Well - to be fair - a tiny, unrepresentative fraction of the 27,000 strong university has passed a motion:
The resolution was passed by around 80 to 50 votes.Lest we think this spokesman a hyperbolic Bushitler stooge, a quick trawl of the miracle that is the Google cache yields the following admonitory vignette on ringleader Sham Rajyaguru:
A spokesman for UCL Union accused a group of "hard core", Left-wing students of orchestrating the vote. "It's quite a silly thing," he admitted.
I'm Sham, 16, Socialist git. I hate everything especally [sic] YOU.Politically active students, of course, ordinarily are "quite silly". Some of those who once fell into that mephitic category are now running the country - into the ground.
Not that I have anything against UCL. (Some of my less academic school friends were constrained to study there.) But as this news demonstrates, students can be a noisome and unworthy bunch.
The time has come to amend the 1969 Representation of the People Act, which that old crook Harold Wilson erroneously believed would swing him the 1970 election. 18 to 20-year-olds should still have the vote - so long as they're not in full time education ...
2 comments:
Student politics ! The sad part is that the lefties will all end up being cabinet ministers or MPs having never done an honest days work int heir lives.
In my day I stood for election as a NUS conference delegate on the basis that if elected I wouldn't go - saving the Union the expenses etc. I was ranked second out of 4 based on getting up very early on election day (a dastardly right wing ploy) to put anti NUS fliers round the University.
It all paid of as the year after I left the students voted to leave NUS - one even quoting my campaign as inspiration. As ever the professional politicos were having none of it and made sure the 'will of the people' was never carried out. ( Much like the present deceitful bunch of parasitic liars who are Labour ministers today ).
OK rant of - I've got more work to do today if I'm going to afford Darlings stealth tax hike on Weds ....
"The sad part is that the lefties will all end up being cabinet ministers ..."
Ha!
Thanks for the memories. I myself was lucky enough to attend an extremely apathetic college which could barely ever muster more than two people to go on whatever futile, time-wasting student march it was at the time (I was never one of them).
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