Jason Wong, a candidate for student elections at LSE whose campaign featured shocking sexism and misogyny, has issued an apology after deliberately offensive posters caused red faces at the university. Wong’s campaign featured a number of sexist campaign posters, including one promising toaster in student halls because “Girls love cooking and love to be in [...]
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“She can clean my toilet for £12″, says misogynistic student Tory campaign
Days after Tories at St Andrews University were exposed for burning effigies of Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, members of Conservative Future continue to disgrace themselves. A Tory candidate in student election at LSE has now outraged campus with deliberately misogynistic campaign posters. The poorly judged attempts at laddish “humour”, which are available on the [...]
Tory society which torched Obama effigy repeatedly burned Mandela
The Conservative Association which caused outrage by burning an effigy of Barack Obama have previously torched a likeness of Nelson Mandela on numerous occasions and toasted Apartheid at their annual dinners. The group at St Andrews University have been excoriated for the racial insensitivities of the stunt — but the burning of Mandela, which occurred most recently in 2005, [...]
Chair of Conservative Future mocks northern diet of “chips and gravy”
The leader of the Conservative Party’s youth organisation has been called “patronising” and “snobbish” after insulting the diets of northerners, describing the party’s successes in the region as the ”gravy revolution”. The Tory website London Spin — previously the venue of appalling anti-gypsy racism — claimed that Conservative Future chair Ben Howlett has “committed to having chips and gravy with [...]
The Conservative MP, the elitist dining club and the strippers
The revelations of port-fuelled anti-semitism at Oxford University Conservative Association are shocking but by no means the latest soiling of this right-wing political cradle. A look back through the Oxonian archives yields further anecdotes about their forbears – the crucial difference being that they are now special advisers and MPs. Step forward Aidan Burley, Conservative MP for Cannock [...]
Oxford Tory claims women “serve their purpose” in drunken video
Leading Tory students have been filmed mocking urban slang and claiming that women “serve their purpose” in a video posted on YouTube. In what they will doubtless claim is “hilarious satire”, a HandyCam was kept rolling during one of the Oxford University Conservative Association’s (OUCA) boozy Port and Policy events. After attempts to translate vernacular of “the common man” and [...]
Tory candidate resigns after claiming female residents “are all slags”
A Conservative candidate for Thanet Council and the chairman of University of Westminster Conservative Future has resigned from the party for his blatant misogyny on Facebook. The Evening Standard reports Payam Tamiz was until recently listed as a member of a Facebook group with the name: “Girls in THANET … you are all slags, hoes, brasses and bheads.” [...]
The inside story of Aaron Porter’s secret bid for Leicester South
Outgoing NUS president Aaron Porter aborted a bid to run for parliament in the face of fierce opposition from student colleagues and union staffers, Political Scrapbook can reveal. On 13 March as speculation mounted that he would enter the Labour Party’s selection for the Leicester South by-election, the student leader tweeted to reassure observers he would [...]
