NUS: abolish all prisons now!

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Pan Pan Pan said:

Like wise the appropriate course of action for the nutter who killed an overseas student on a footpath near Essex university by stabbing her repeatedly, Not to mention the poor bloke, the same nutter killed earlier by stabbing him over fifty times??

He's a nutter, he needs to be in a mental hospital. Not a prison. Mate of mine, sadly no longer with us, got Alzheimer's. Believed there were fairies in the garden. Not too much of a problem until he decided the fairies were out to get him so he'd beat them to death. The fairy in question was an old dear of 90 and he very nearly succeeded. Should he go inside for gbh then? That's what he did after all. Fortunately the law has the sense to put the mentally I'll in hospital, at least some of the time.

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battered said:

Pan Pan Pan said:

Like wise the appropriate course of action for the nutter who killed an overseas student on a footpath near Essex university by stabbing her repeatedly, Not to mention the poor bloke, the same nutter killed earlier by stabbing him over fifty times??

He's a nutter, he needs to be in a mental hospital. Not a prison. Mate of mine, sadly no longer with us, got Alzheimer's. Believed there were fairies in the garden. Not too much of a problem until he decided the fairies were out to get him so he'd beat them to death. The fairy in question was an old dear of 90 and he very nearly succeeded. Should he go inside for gbh then? That's what he did after all. Fortunately the law has the sense to put the mentally I'll in hospital, at least some of the time.

The court actually decided he was not in fact a nutter, but only using the chance that he might be to escape a more onerous sentence. Fortunately the court saw through this and he was jailed for being a murderer rather than a bona fide nutter.

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mph1977 said:

if HEIs own Students Unions continue to disaffiliate there won't be much for the NUS to do; To be honest as traction builds for disaffiliation all it takes to replace a lot of the none political action of the NUS is someone to set up either a business with the shares owned by the constituent SUs or a co-op for the purchasing side of things ...


Once the NUS loses the ability to claim to 'represent' x thousand students ...

Well if this article is accurate then that moment has arrived, as it doesn't seem to represent male students:

http://www.inside-man.co.uk/2016/05/31/nus-man-pro...

Article starts "Aaron Golightly, a journalism graduate from Bournemouth University, was disturbed to read of the NUS’ dismissive response to recent findings by a major think tank that universities need to do more to support male students. Here he asks, is this just one example of a pattern of NUS failures to support male students?"

And makes some interesting points about the current NUS officers and their attitude to men.