"Bruce" wrote in message

"Recliner" wrote:

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:34:48 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
Exactly! I suppose it's just to prepare themselves for a jobless
future; I can't imagine many employers would rush to offer these
activists jobs, even if they did manage to get a worthwhile degree.

I get the feeling gob****es like Solomon and her flunkies simply
become students so they can muscle their way into the political side
of it and give themselves a platform they otherwise wouldn't have. I
doubt they gives a rats arse about whatever worthless sociopolitical
degree they'll scrape through with.

I wasn't thinking of her, but the actual students she's urging to
ruin their futures. She obviously is a professional politician
already, which is what most student union leaders aspire to.
Normally (like Aaron Parter now, and the likes of Jack Straw in the
past) they aim to become Labour party ministers, but she's almost
off the left-hand edge of the political scale. I hadn't even heard
of Crossfire ("a network of activists who are Marxist,
anti-capitalist, anti-war, anti-cuts while campaigning for equality
and workers' rights"), which is apparently an SWP splinter group.


They say that people become more moderate (or even right wing) as they
get older. Perhaps she just needs to grow up a little. ;-)

Reading that article, she seems to be have gone in exactly the opposite
direction to the norm. It also struck me that she gave birth to a son 20
years ago -- I wonder how many other student union officials themselves
have university age children? And is her son one of those sit-inners?