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Originally Posted by punky
Anyone see the NUS president and that horrible woman on BBC breakfast? There's a clip on BBC news. Says our all really.
The NUS was actually quite nice for a union leader (although I'm not sure it counts as a union in the traditional sense?). But the woman was horrid, saying "it's out a few windows of the Tory party headquarters and the banks blah blah blah..."
Any sympathy will soon evaporate.
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I think the NUS conducted themselves appropriately throughout this entire protest. They worked well the the police, they deplored the violence in strong terms, and the actual march they organised was peaceful and well managed.
There is a good video of some students outside the Tory HQ chanting against those who were throwing things from the roof.
The reporting of the protest this morning has been keen to differentiate between the students and those who attached themselves in the march in order to cause disruption. A former senior member of the flying squad said the same on the radio this morning, that the NUS would never have been the problem but rather a professional group of troublemakers who use all marches to cause trouble.
As such I don't think sympathy will evaporate. As I mentioned previously a lot of people will either have been a student or be closely related to someone who was/is/will be a student. It's too big a demographic to effectively tar them all with the same brush, that really only works when people have had little exposure to the group in question.