The boys are back in town: Sabbs re-elected

Leo Bøe has been elected as next year’s President of Warwick Students’ Union, announced last Saturday evening. He beat eight other candidates in the race to total 1,569 votes after nine stages of elimination through the single transferable vote system (STV), leaving runner-up Jane Costello in second place with 1,296 votes.

Education Officer hospitalised while candidates posters vandalised

Current candidate for Education Officer Sean Ruston is currently at Walsgrave hospital in Coventry undergoing treatment for appendicitis.

Officer candidates throw hats into the ring

Election nominations closed last Friday, and the provisional lists are available for who is running for next year’s officer positions at the Students’ Union.

Ripping up the manifestos – who did you vote for?

It’s almost midnight on the 11^th of February 2010; week five is done. Elections week is finally over. No more nagging on Facebook statuses, lecture shout outs, no more hustings, group invites, kitchen tours or ‘like’ this page or I won’t be your friend anymore threats.

Nigel Farage - Straight talking?

[May 2010]

Tonight I attended a 'public meeting' for the UKIP party, headed by Nigel Farage. He's the ex leader (as of 2005).

UKIP stand for the UK Independence Party. Don't know anything about them? Liberalist, nationalist (non-racist [in comparison to BNP maybe]) party... Here's some of their mini manifesto for you to chomp on.

Abused by the political system?

Thursday 6th May 2010. D day. D for decision that is.

Having made the effort to rummage around the kitchen and find my polling card this morning, I came across a pile of election leaflets my mother had kindly not thrown out for me (I already kept the first copies, they were duplicates...) So I read through them (again) and then failed (yet again) to be inspired by any of them.