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HUU Elections 2009 – The delayed President
Mar 13th
One of the more controversial aspects of the elections that recently took place at Hull University Union was the disqualification of one of the Presidential candidates – Jamie Scudamore. Due to that decision, made by Returning Officer Kat Docherty, Jamie appealed and that meant an Election Appeals Committee had to be arranged. This delayed the…
HUU Elections 2009 – the results (with a twist)
Mar 6th
The last day of voting and the announcement of the results were both very eventful. Naturally, there was a lot of tension and when each result was announced, there was a huge amount of emotion shown. Amongst the chanting and the tears though, we now have most of the team that will be in charge…
HUU Elections 2009 – Polling days
Mar 4th
Before I get onto the subject of this entry, I should point out that the current UST (Alex Hamilton) sent a message to me and said that as a result of my discovery about the confusing Returning Officer notices, the incorrect notice has been removed from Hullstudent.com. He has also informed me that there are…
HUU Elections 2009 – Candidates & Controversy
Mar 2nd
I haven’t posted since November last year. To be honest, I had lost the motivation to blog and I had other things that used up my time. Each of my posts take a while to research. Anyway, certain things have happened recently which have given me some motivation again. The importance and history of elections…
Obama 338 – 163 McCain
Nov 5th
As you can see from the result above, the Illinois Senator Barack Obama was elected to be the next President of the United States. He will start that job on January 20th, 2009. Results breakdownHere is a graphical representation of who won each state:Here is a simple breakdown of the numbers Choice No. states Democrat…
All the excitement of a governance review
Oct 20th
I won’t bore you with the reasons why I haven’t blogged much recently. I could have posted my opinions on the credit crunch or the latest news about the US election, but I’m not going to today – that will come later. This post is more of a continuation of my last post as it’s…
The HUU Governance Review
May 12th
This year, after a referendum at HUU, a review of the current governance structures has been initiated. It’s the second one in three years and it attempts to correct any flaws in the existing setup that was created to make the union more compliant with charity laws. At the time of typing, the green paper…
The ’08 primaries – not many left
May 7th
On May 6th we had the primaries for Indiana and North Carolina. These states were incredibly important for Hillary as it was a chance to build up more late momentum (after her win in Pennsylvania). For Barack Obama, they were a chance to get an even bigger lead in the delegate count prior to the…
The NUT industrial action
Apr 25th
On Thursday, April 24th, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) members went on strike for one day, but there is the possibility of further action in the future. The reason for the strike was poor pay and conditions, however I think that this is a dubious claim and the type of action was the wrong…
Pennsylvania Wars: Clinton Strikes Back
Apr 23rd
Photo taken by Barbara Kinney Before the voting day in Pennsylvania, many people felt that Obama would lose in that state. He was behind in the polls and the citizens are people who fall into the categories that typically vote for Clinton. However, I’m always skeptical about polls – especially after the surprise in Iowa…