The British student left in NUS
By Daniel Randall, NUS NEC (personal capacity) 2005/6 will not go down as a proud year in the history of the National Union of Student. NUS’s campaigning has detoriorated to the extent that its national demonstration was actually cancelled. Meanwhile the union continues to cosy up to both Blairite ministers and education sector bosses. The union’s democracy and the engagement of its members with its structures continue to diminish. Hundreds of thousands of pounds have gone to waste on needless fripperies while right-wing bureaucrats on the NEC told the membership that there was no money...