+++SU president gets away with it+++

Via the excellent

Young Conservative

blog it seems Nottingham University's notorious President has survived efforts to have him removed from office... TB broke the story a couple of months ago and was then threatened with some very arsey emails from the bureaucrat in charge at Nottingham threatening to sue unless the stories were removed. Seems they had issue with the phrase "beating up" rather than "head butt". Over to TYC:

"Impact, the ‘University of Nottingham Students’ Union’s award-winning magazine’

is reporting

that disgraced Students’ Union president Nsikan Edung has survived a no-confidence vote by a threadbare margin.

Monday night’s vote ended with a majority - 24 - voting in favour of removing Edung, whose position looked increasingly untenable following revelations last month that he bragged on Facebook of “pissing our [SU] money away” and “ruining diplomatic relations” whilst he was meant to be acting as an ambassador the university in China. The trip was funded from the public purse. Whilst only 16 votes were cast in favour of Edung continuing in his role, the two-thirds threshold which would have seen him dismissed was narrowly avoided.

However the lamentable story doesn’t end there, with Impact stating that "on Friday 28th March he was observed to engage in an altercation involving 40 minutes of sustained verbal abuse and then an alleged physical altercation, which is now pending censure”.

Taken in totality this conduct surely begs the question, what does one have to do to be dismissed as Nottingham’s SU president?"

Quite.