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ISSUE 684 21 MAY 2018 exepose.com @Exepose
THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1987
Guild fails to sign Brexit letter
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that Theresa May agrees with the European Union.
Gwyn Wright News Editor
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HE University of Exeter Students’ Guild has failed to join 60 other students’ unions across the country in signing a letter demanding a people’s vote on a Brexit deal, despite For Our Future’s Sake having sent them information about it in April. The letter, drawn up by a student campaign group called For Our Future’s Sake, calls on local MPs to give the British public a final say on any final Brexit deal
Lots of student unions who signed the letter passed policy, or had a referendum on the issue
Amanda Chetwynd-Cowieson, For Our Future’s Sake
It has so far been signed by students’ unions (SUs) representing 980,000 students at universities including Birmingham, Durham, Cambridge, and St An-
drews. Despite only having formed a few weeks ago, the organisation is already beginning to make its presence felt in campuses across the country. The Guild have claimed that insufficient interest in the letter amongst students is at least partly resposnsible for the fact that they have not signed the letter. They claim that there needeed to be a mandate for them to sign the letter, whether this was a vote, a campaign or a Student Idea, and that this was not the case with this letter. However, the Guild’s Student Ideas platform is closed until
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September. Shades, Guild President, said: “Not a single student approached the Sabbatical Team about signing the FFS Open Letter to Parliament; the team are dedicated to representing student needs on campus and we’re more than happy to talk to any student who wishes to discuss this with us.” The group have said that they are planning action which they hope will dwarf the protests against the trebling of...
Food Fight removed from Pride
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EMBERS of Exeter Food Fight have described being “infuriated” at Exeter Pride’s decision to remove their stall from Northernhay Gardens during the event on Saturday. However, Exeter Pride has claimed that Food Fight did not provide “health and safety details, complete risk assessments, food allergens or details of what they intended to sell or give away.” Food Fight were at the event, hosted in Northernhay Gardens, to give out free food to passers by from a table they had brought from home. The campaign has been running for several years, and can often be found on Bedford Square on weekends. The Exeter student-led group was told to leave by a person identifying themselves as the event’s treasurer, purportedly on the grounds that they were harming the profits of traders. They were then approached by event security. Videos posted on Facebook, both live and recorded, depict the extensive argument between them and event volunteers, who asked them to leave as Food Fight had not submitted paperwork prior to Pride. At one stage the police were called, but this proved inconclusive, with the officer leaving having allegedly told Food Fight they could remain in place should they stop serving food. Despite the group promising to do so, their table and equipment were removed from Northernhay Gardens by Pride security staff and placed outside the grounds of the event where they were told they could continue. In the video, boos from nearby event attendees can be heard as security carried the equipment away from its original spot.
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