RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THURSDAY

MR JIM MURPHY AND THE NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS

• Session: 1995-96
• Date tabled: 12.06.1996
• Primary sponsor: Livingstone, Ken
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That this House condemns the intolerant and dictatorial behaviour of the President of the National Union of Students, Mr Jim Murphy, who has unconstitutionally suspended NUS Vice President, Clive Lewis, because he took part, in a personal capacity, in an open debate at Queen Mary and Westfield College on the issues raised by the Campaign for Free Education; further notes that along with President Elect, Douglas Trainer, both men have warned NUS Executive member, Rose Woods, that if she attends the Scottish launch of the Campaign for Free Education she too will be suspended from the NUS Executive; reminds Mr Murphy and Mr Trainer that freedom of speech is a right in the United Kingdom, that they have no power to overturn the results of elections that went against their preferred candidates and that, whilst these methods are a common practice in dictatorships around the world, they are not acceptable behaviour from someone such as Mr Murphy who is putting himself forward as suitable for election to the House of Commons.

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Name	Party	Constituency	Date Signed
Barnes, Harry	Labour Party	North East Derbyshire	13.06.1996
Benn, Tony	Labour Party	Chesterfield	12.06.1996
Clapham, Michael	Labour Party	Barnsley West and Penistone	19.06.1996
Cohen, Harry	Labour Party	Leyton and Wanstead	20.06.1996
Corbyn, Jeremy	Labour Party	Islington North	19.06.1996
Etherington, Bill	Labour Party	Sunderland North	18.06.1996
Gerrard, Neil	Labour Party	Walthamstow	12.06.1996
Jones, Lynne	Labour Party	Birmingham Selly Oak	12.06.1996
Livingstone, Ken	No party affiliation	Brent East	12.06.1996
Mahon, Alice	Labour Party	Halifax	12.06.1996
Simpson, Alan	Labour Party	Nottingham South	12.06.1996
Skinner, Dennis	Labour Party	Bolsover	12.06.1996
Smith, Llew	Labour Party	Blaenau Gwent	18.06.1996

Interestingly Alex Salmond, MP for Banff and Buchan wanted to add "as a Labour MP" to the end of the motion and proposed an amendment to that effect.

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Bravo.

Seems like an evil little bucket of manure, doesn't he?
Think that Eton Dave must be putty in his hands.

So, no wonder Patrick looked like this when daft wee Ruthie
started burbling on about Putin invading Scotland and then talked
bullshit about the size of the British Forces.
They may be buying hundreds of armoured cars, but they don't have any drivers.
Almost as daft as building aircraft carriers when you don't have any aircraft
and who'd do anything that bloody daft...?

You gotta give the Brits credit. They are consistent.
They will keep on starving the lower orders until there are only
 just enough to serve champagne and canapés to their betters.

Don't know where they are going to be working.
There are no oil fields left.

Dave... yer patter's boufie mate.
We stopped believing a word you said 5 years ago

Ahhh, the British establishment.
As ever unaware of the situation outside of a few
select gentlemen's clubs in Pall Mall.

The Libations made it to the charts
But it seems that both they and the Proclaimers may be having problems
getting airplay. I wonder why.
So we have to do it ourselves. The BBC establishment will
 probably play Vera Lynn's White Cliffs of Dover.
If you know someone who doesn't have
Caledonia or Cap in Hand, persuade them to buy them.
It's not expensive and it will make a difference.
Remember the Proclaimers donated to the YES campaign and the
Libations to food banks.