And it's goodnight from him...
On Wednesday evening, the Executive of King's College London Students' Union passed a motion of No Confidence in their President. I'd like to say this doesn't interest me. But I'd be lying. As the five people who texted me the news were aware.
It's not exactly tough to put forward a no confidence motion at KCLSU. a mate of mine reckoned you could no confidence a president for wearing red socks on account of the fact that students preferred blue ones. (No political comment intended.) But it's rare for one to go through, and it's rare for that many people in a KCLSU exec meeting to agree on anything.
The gist of it all was that the president had failed to report after being censured for not doing so three times. It was admittedly quite difficult for him to do so, since he often fails to attend meetings altogether. (He is an esteemed member of the Carlton Club and as such has to be there as often as possible.) He has also never attended a ULU Council Meeting, and has allegedly (it's ok, I said ALLEGEDLY) turned up to various college meetings trashed. According to this he was no confidenced for 1.) Failure to report 2.) Failure to do work 3.) Failure to lead. Which are quite big oversights if you're the President, even if you're crap at it.
The decision now has to be ratified by Council, not so much because Students' Unions like to give people a fair hearing, but because they like to drag out the agony for as long as possible. What amazes me, though, is that, in spite of the fact that 13 people voted to get rid of him (versus 1 - him - to allow him to stay) he hasn't resigned yet!
There's a not-very-interesting discussion on educationet about it, (although there is a guy who posts as "Barry the Seagull", which interests me...) and surprisingly little (i.e. nothing) about it here (although the chatter section is fun.)
Oh, and the guy's also a Tory. Not that I'd hold that against him.
It's not exactly tough to put forward a no confidence motion at KCLSU. a mate of mine reckoned you could no confidence a president for wearing red socks on account of the fact that students preferred blue ones. (No political comment intended.) But it's rare for one to go through, and it's rare for that many people in a KCLSU exec meeting to agree on anything.
The gist of it all was that the president had failed to report after being censured for not doing so three times. It was admittedly quite difficult for him to do so, since he often fails to attend meetings altogether. (He is an esteemed member of the Carlton Club and as such has to be there as often as possible.) He has also never attended a ULU Council Meeting, and has allegedly (it's ok, I said ALLEGEDLY) turned up to various college meetings trashed. According to this he was no confidenced for 1.) Failure to report 2.) Failure to do work 3.) Failure to lead. Which are quite big oversights if you're the President, even if you're crap at it.
The decision now has to be ratified by Council, not so much because Students' Unions like to give people a fair hearing, but because they like to drag out the agony for as long as possible. What amazes me, though, is that, in spite of the fact that 13 people voted to get rid of him (versus 1 - him - to allow him to stay) he hasn't resigned yet!
There's a not-very-interesting discussion on educationet about it, (although there is a guy who posts as "Barry the Seagull", which interests me...) and surprisingly little (i.e. nothing) about it here (although the chatter section is fun.)
Oh, and the guy's also a Tory. Not that I'd hold that against him.
posted by RLS at 1:46 pm
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He's a bit like Tony Blair, isn't he? Ironic since he's a Tory.
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