Exeter finalist is campaigning to leave the NUS

After the disastrous conference at the weekend, where the infamous anti-semite Malia Bouattia was elected president, the NUS come under particular scrutiny.

We spoke to the man behind the NUSceptics campaign, economics and politics finalist, Charlie Evans.

So first off, when did you start the campaign?

So I started the campaign in the middle of March.

It was only designed to be a little forum for students to slag off their NUS but I really underestimated how disillusioned students are across the country.

We started off with 20 students, and have grown to 450 in five or so weeks.

Malia- the anti-semite

Why do you want to leave the NUS?

I am supporting Exeter’s ‘BeLeave in Exeter’ disaffiliation campaign because it doesn’t give a care for pluralism, is only committed to representing students who adhere to their very far-left agenda, and it’s just elected a President in Malia Bouattia who has expressed explicitly anti-Semitic sentiments in the past.

We hear ‘stronger together’ or ‘reform within’ from the stay camp, but this is very naive. Exeter delegates tried speaking out against some of its wackier elements, and we were voted down every time.

I can’t see it getting any better whatsoever.

Charlie at the conference

Are you surprised by the effectiveness of your campaign?

I am surprised at how quickly it has grown but I didn’t seriously envisage what would happen as a result of the conference.

How was the conference?

It was good fun, everyone was very pleasant to one another which I was surprised at.

It was a Far-Left Echo Chamber- it called the National Student Survey ‘institutionally racist and sexist.’

People stood up to oppose commemorating the Holocaust, albeit it was passed, and there was a general obsession with boycotting things and not offering pragmatic steps to bring about changes that students need.

Nice people, but rubbish ideas for students nationally.