Following Kent Labour Students twitter battle with Steve Brookstein (remember him? He won the first X-Factor? Yeah me neither.) I felt it apt to write a blog reiterating the view that Kent Labour Students disagree with Tesco’s sale of a card which trivialises sexual harassment in the work place. Kent Labour Students condemn this card …
The welfare state is currently undergoing a major shakeup at the hands of the coalition with little to no thought about how these changes will affect those that rely on benefits to keep them above the poverty line. At a time when 2.56 million people (February 2013) are out of work, is it really the …
What’s clear to everyone bar Grant Shapps is that yesterday wasn’t a great day for the Conservative party who saw 335 of their councillors lose their seats. Most back benchers will cry outrage at being outflanked on the right and most of the front benchers will blame the treasury. One thing they can be certain …
NUS is our national Union that has the task of representing 7 million students across both FE (Further Education) and HE (Higher Education), no easy task. Every year NUS holds a national conference that is the sovereign body of the organisation it is tasked with deciding the NUS policy for the year ahead as well …
Only a single confirmed photo of the would-be successor to Kim Jong-il existed back in the first half of 2010. Yet nearly 3 years on, North Korea’s new young leader, Kim Jong-Un, has his image projected across the world, as he heads a potential nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. The recent hostile rhetoric that …
KLS Catch Up – 6th April 2013 Seema Malhotra- 28th March Canvassing in Canterbury – 30th March Kent Young Labour AGM – 30th March Charity Fundraising for Mind – 5th April Labour students once again have been incredibly busy, before the end of Spring term we had speakers, campaigns and even more elections. On the 28th March … Continue reading »
In her memoirs, published in 1993, Margaret Thatcher wrote of the Callaghan government that it might be ‘perhaps the last ever’ Labour administration. Thankfully, Thatcher wasn’t as good at predicting elections as she was at snatching milk, but the lesson for Labour remains – you’re nothing without power, and if you’re without power it’s usually … Continue reading »
KLS Catch Up – 24th March 2013 KLS Committee Elections/AGM – 4th to 8th March Student Voter Registration events – 12th and 13th March Spirit of 45 Film event – 17th March KLS Hustings for Kent Union Leadership Elections – 18th March Sabb Week and Results – 15th – 22nd March (results 22nd March) Campaigning … Continue reading »
Following on from successful elections at AGM, Kent Labour Students was left with two vacant roles. The Social Secretary and BAME officer. Last week the Committee unanimously decided to co-opt Alex White into the role of Social Secretary. After just losing his election to Vice-Chair, Alex expressed an interest in filling the role. Alex has been … Continue reading »
Another year has flown by for Kent Labour Students. I can remember this time last year nervously awaiting to find out if I had won my election to become General Secretary for the club, Matt delivering a fantastic Chair’s address and losing at pool for the thousandth time to Joe. The past year has been … Continue reading »
The fourth of our blogs to mark International Women’s Week is by Megan Wells, Kent Union’s Women’s Officer. Coming into this role, I thought I had a clear vision of what I wanted to do, how I was going to do it, and that no one would stop me from achieving. Most of this is still … Continue reading »
I can never fully experience the challenges facing a woman in today’s society. I am a white, able-bodied, heterosexual male in a white, able-bodied, heterosexual male’s world. I am, essentially, the patriarchy. Most men feel comfortable with that identity not because they enjoy the oppression of others (though some undoubtedly do) but because they don’t … Continue reading »
