All that I can say is… WOW! What a bloody amazing day’s campaigning! It’s just been epicly fun!
It started off rather excitingly because I got to drive the mini-bus into town from campus, laden down with students, staff, student officers, and stash for the campaign. I’d never driven anything much larger than a VW Polo, let alone a large beast of a vehicle, and nevermind that I was driving down the pedestrianised Broad Street shopping mall at 10am. It was certainly an experience, and I’m fairly sure that the old lady and her bike didn’t mind being dragged for two miles underneath the chassis 
We had a space outside Waterstones in a kind of raised-up band stand area right in the middle of the main thoroughfare… and it was there that we set up our gazebo, trestle tables, posters, balloons, and the ‘Wallpaper Wall’ where passers-by could leave a handprint and sign it to show that they cared 
Then we started leafleting.
And leafleting. And leafleting…
We must have shifted over 1,000… maybe nearer to 2,000 flyers to passers-by and the voting public about higher education and demanding a fairer funding system for students. So so many people wanted to engage, whether it was just to stop for a chat or to sign our petition, to have their photo taken or to get their hands stuck into the paint… even just those people who accepted a flyer were engaging in a small way. It was beyond exciting to see our entire team of campaigners, decked out in our red t-shirts emblazoned with our slogans, constantly talking to people or giving flyers out or just jumping around.
The interesting highlight? The guy who got involved who’d definitely soiled himself…
The worst part? The middle-classes who were mostly too busy to stop and see what the issue was, even though it probably directly affects their darling children.
Keep an eye out tomorrow for The Big Steal
Let’s throw our debt back at the University – time to take action.
Tommy
If funding wasn’t an issue… then things would be free.
