Another Labour President in Drunken Nightclub Assault
Thomas Graham
is President of the Edinburgh University Student's Association. He is also a Labour Party pole climber and holds office in Labour Students. Hilariously with his recruiter hat on he once tried to get TB to join Unite. Like so many in careerists who would not be able to survive in the real world, Graham now has his eyes set on an role within the National Union of Students. His chances of election next month took a big hit last night though.Despite the fact Graham and his other sabbatical Vice-Presidents have just announced a restructuring of the students association model, with inevitable redundancies, nobody was expecting a tired and emotional President to start swinging the axe in the later part of Saturday night.
A paralytic Graham was escorted out of the student run Potterow venue last night by bouncers who found him behaving aggressively and very, very drunk. Instead of taking it on the chin and getting in a cab he decided to throw his weight around a bit. Not only did he declare, at the top of his voice repeatedly, that the bouncers in question would be fired on Monday morning, reports that he assaulted a fellow student are being investigated. Not only an embarrassment, Graham has completely abused his posistion and made himself a laughing stock. Needless to say the bouncers who were doing what they are paid to do are safe in their jobs. Things aren't looking good for the wayward President though.
Labour hacks have a track record of this sort of thing. Nottingham's Labour President was lucky to get away with head-butting someone outside a club, and who could forget when Manchester Labour's poster girl Grace Fletcher-Hackwood punched a student, while elected to a role responsible for "student welfare". She had to
resign
her sabbatical position at York. TB can see little reason why the precedent set in York isn't applied to this situation. If he does end up going and loses out at the NUS elections, it sounds like Thomas Graham would be most at home with the rest of the thugs at Unite.
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These cases are an ideal antidote to the Labour cries of "Bullingdon Club Boys!" about Cameron and Co whose main crime seems to have been playing games of Pool...
Ha! Well found TB.
See, that's why Glasgow University is better. We had the wisdom to stay out of NUS despite repeated attempts from lefties to inveigle us in.
By and large - and with some depressing exceptions, of course - we have avoided attracting these kind of dull Labour placemen. Ah, many's the day I used to roll up, cast my vote to frustrate the Socialist Workers and then disappear for another three months...
Fantastic. I hope there was the standard Labour line of 'doncha know who I am?'
Yup, a soon to be unemployed ejeet.
Comedy that keeps on giving.