Author Archives: EB

On the 12th of September I found myself in a fight at a Trustee Board meeting over a worrying policy being passed at the board with no debate from the wider student body. This report – which I have attached … Continue reading →

Tonight is the final Guild Council of the year and like every Council meeting before it, nearly all the debates we have will be within the framework of the “Guild”. What should the Guild of Students be doing? Of course … Continue reading →

Below is an open letter from University of Birmingham Unison, it’s important that students read. Unison members, the universities support staff  are earning below the UK poverty line, they being giving increasing workloads and having their weekends taken away are … Continue reading →

I’m hanging the palestinian flag out of my office in the guild because there is something I want students to know about. It’s that today is Nakba  day meaning “disaster” or “cataclysm” in Arabic. Today is when people all across … Continue reading →

Last night I was informed that I’d been removed as Guild Trustee.I’m not going to go into the rights and wrongs of that decision now as that has already been done, my defence case can be found here. Mark’s note … Continue reading →

The Trustee Board are planning on holding a vote of no confidence in me as a trustee this Monday (read this). I have offered my defence in full in writing here, however I can’t go to the meeting as they … Continue reading →

There is a tradition in NUS elections of candidates being scared to criticise each other and instead ending up just saying nice things about “me me me” – “what I’ve done, why I’m wonderful” and nothing about their polices. In … Continue reading →

So after immense public pressure last Friday the Guild released a statement saying that a nine-page letter containing seventeen separate explicit references to a resolution to remove me as an officer was an ‘admin error’. They are now only attempting … Continue reading →

Thank you for whoever wrote this comment on this article, I lol’d. I thought I’d display this excellent piece of satire more prominently. THE VOICE OF THE MAJORITYsays: April 11, 2012 at 11:06 am As a self-appointed representative of the … Continue reading →

Since my election as VP Education there has been an obsession by unelected senior managers and certain invertebrates in the union to not only prevent me from delivering my manifesto for a campaigning, democratic Guild, but also to remove me … Continue reading →