Our student union forced a vote on whether or not to boot out the entertainments officer, who had allegedly made a racist remark to a student of colour. Despite the fact that the alleged victim, along with most of the other coloured students, came to his defence, the loony left mustered enough tossers to win the vote.

This is the same union that once gave its entire year's funds to the IRA.

One of the most heated debates I remember was over the annual renewal of subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals. The Spartists wanted to renew the Socialist Worker; the equally loony Tory lot wanted the Sun, I think. The combined forces of the rugby and boat clubs tabled an amendment to the effect that if we were to subscribe to comics we shouldn't overlook the Beano and the Dandy. The debate ran into the small hours, with beer-fuelled rantings and heated discussions on all three sides. Net result: fights every Thursday morning over who got first read of the Beano.

"So, Mr. McGuinness, who do I make the cheque payable to...?"

Thinking about student cheques reminds me of doing things like writing a cheque for a kebab on the way home from the pub... in those days, you got your cheques sent back to you each month, and it was a little embarrassing to see drunken scrawled cheques for 1.65... or the regular 100 quid cheques using the guarantee card at Bureau de Change when you'd no cash left in your account!!

Happy days. I think.

Spartists? Senior portait artists, according to google.

You meant "sparticists", Gerry Healey's lot.

"The lines of cleavage between Pablo’s revisionism and orthodox Trotskyism are so deep that no compromise is possible either politically or organizationally. The Pablo faction has demonstrated that it will not permit democratic decisions truly reflecting majority opinion to be reached. They demand complete submission to their criminal policy. They are determined to drive all orthodox Trotskyists out of the Fourth International or to muzzle and handcuff them.
Their scheme has been to inject their Stalinist conciliationism piecemeal and likewise in piecemeal fashion, get rid of those who come to see what is happening and raise objections."


Ah, I do miss them, bless.

That was another thing. The Union shop would cash cheques but not Barclays ones.

I hope you're 'aving us on.

Manchester is not the midlands We have got enough loonies here without all the ones from up north.
Also we must remember that these well rounded individuals may well be running the country or local councils in a few years. then it will be the lunatics running the asylum I would say mad house but I dont thick I am aloud

See for yourself, http://spartists.blogs.com/

I would just like it to be put on record that I will be voting for the Bloc this year.

http://www.blocagency.com/

OMG I am in the Midlands and studying......I'd better watch out, is this how I will end up?! Today I was told I am not allowed the use the word "Brainstorm"

Jules Europe ?

I was under the impression they already were!!

OooooH

Ah yes, that would be in the 1970s when boycotting South African goods and busnesses was the thing

There was some local graffitti that said Barclays is a piggy bank