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So this thread evolves from where I have just finshed my manifesto for the position of Events Officer at my University. This is the first election I have ever stood for and I'm looking forward to it.

So NSGer's have you ever run in an election? Will you ever run in an election? Or do you see it as a waste of time?

I refuse to vote for you unless you're going to lower the price of a pint in the student bar.

I refuse to vote for you unless you're going to lower the price of a pint in the student bar.

I promise! :D

So this thread evolves from where I have just finshed my manifesto for the position of Events Officer at my University. This is the first election I have ever stood for and I'm looking forward to it.

So NSGer's have you ever run in an election? Will you ever run in an election? Or do you see it as a waste of time?

Do you get paid for being Events Officer?

Never have and never will run in an election. The positions tend to involve too many people bitching at you to really interest me

Waste of time. I'm nonreligious, and so, at least in my country, I'll never have a chance to get elected because people here are bigots.

Waste of time. I'm nonreligious, and so, at least in my country, I'll never have a chance to get elected because people here are bigots.

Then pretend to be religious. :p

I have run for election for various organisations I have been apart of. Safety rep for my team, Chairmen of the Safety committee of my department, Consultative rep for my team and Secretary of my football club. Nothing large but something small.

I may run for elections in the future maybe for a position that has more responsibility and importance.

Good luck, with the election I hope you win. Not that I think you are the best for the job or that you will do a good job (I am sure you will), but because you are the only person I know running for it. As it is not my university I don't really care who wins, provided that this success will not launch the winner into a political career where they let the power go to their head and end up attempting to take over Europe. :D

I refuse to vote for you unless you're going to lower the price of a pint in the student bar.

Okay!

Wait a minute...you're not a student at my uni!

Do you get paid for being Events Officer?

Never have and never will run in an election. The positions tend to involve too many people bitching at you to really interest me

Don't get paid but do get benefits such as free entry into all events. I'm doing this partly because it's something I've wanted to do for a while and partly it would look good on my CV.

Londim, is NSG really banned in China?

Okay!

Wait a minute...you're not a student at my uni!

I could transfer! Or you could lower the price of a pint in my SU Bar.......

Londim, is NSG really banned in China?

I once heard it was from some source. It is now in my sig because I can't be bothered to change it.

I could transfer! Or you could lower the price of a pint in my SU Bar.......

I don't hold any power in your SU... Unless you help me in a coup against your current SU.

I have run for election for various organisations I have been apart of. Safety rep for my team, Chairmen of the Safety committee of my department, Consultative rep for my team and Secretary of my football club. Nothing large but something small.

I may run for elections in the future maybe for a position that has more responsibility and importance.

Good luck, with the election I hope you win. Not that I think you are the best for the job or that you will do a good job (I am sure you will), but because you are the only person I know running for it. As it is not my university I don't really care who wins, provided that this success will not launch the winner into a political career where they let the power go to their head and end up attempting to take over Europe. :D

*hides plans to invade Belgium*

Don't get paid but do get benefits such as free entry into all events. I'm doing this partly because it's something I've wanted to do for a while and partly it would look good on my CV.

This is the real reasonwhy you are running.

You organise them use uni funds to make it awesome and then get in for free. Best of all you know which ones will be good and which ones will be poor ahead of time.

We can all see through your little plan. :D

*Befriends Londim* You must have an extra free ticket there, mate? Hey, mate, old buddy. :p

I don't hold any power in your SU... Unless you help me in a coup against your current SU.

Convince people your name is Mike Pat. I think he won the Ents elections. That or Morrisey(not the famous one)

This is the real reasonwhy you are running.

You organise them use uni funds to make it awesome and then get in for free. Best of all you know which ones will be good and which ones will be poor ahead of time.

We can all see through your little plan. :D

*Befriends Londim* You must have an extra free ticket there, mate? Hey, mate, old buddy. :p

Yes. It's true! I'm corrupt!

*gives ticket*

All you need now is a Student ID card for my uni to get in...That is upto you my new friend.

I ran for some very minor student positions (committee of a couple of societies and campaigns, staff/student liaison committee, academic standards & practice committee, inter-university student rep committee) and won chiefly through being either the only candidate OR the only candidate willing to make self-deprecating remarks about the size of their genitalia in order to solicit votes.

Now I sit on many committees, eat their excellent biscuits, try not to fall asleep during discussion of Full Economic Costing, and sob silently at night.

I ran for some very minor student positions (committee of a couple of societies and campaigns, staff/student liaison committee, academic standards & practice committee, inter-university student rep committee) and won chiefly through being either the only candidate OR the only candidate willing to make self-deprecating remarks about the size of their genitalia in order to solicit votes.

Now I sit on many committees, eat their excellent biscuits, try not to fall asleep during discussion of Full Economic Costing, and sob silently at night.

You can wash, but you'll never be clean.

No. Because I'm nowhere near popular enough to be elected. Basically, all the people for our uni elections got their friends to campaign for them with tons of facebook groups, asking them to tell friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends to vote for them. No-one votes except the friends of the candidates, meaning it has sod all to do with actual policy or basic competence.

Outside of uni, I'd doubt I'd be an attractive candidate for many people in the wider political scene both for personal reasons and the fact I'm considerably left of the British centre ground. I'm hardly a gifted public speaker, so I doubt I could sweep in for election off my own personal charisma either...

Convince people your name is Mike Pat. I think he won the Ents elections. That or Morrisey(not the famous one)

But if I convince people I am Morrisey ( the famous one) then Mike Pat and Unfamous Morrisey will be forgotten about!

Yes. It's true! I'm corrupt!

*gives ticket*

All you need now is a Student ID card for my uni to get in...That is upto you my new friend.

Yes, I'm in.

*Enrolls in course* *Votes for Londim*

But if I convince people I am Morrisey ( the famous one) then Mike Pat and Unfamous Morrisey will be forgotten about!

Genius! No wonder you're in government.

Convince people your name is Mike Pat. I think he won the Ents elections. That or Morrisey(not the famous one)

Yes, I'm in.

*Enrolls in course* *Votes for Londim*

Excellent! My first vote...2 weeks before voting week. I'm in the lead!

I was on a ticket for student government during my undergrad days.

I thought I was cynical before that election, but by the end of it I was jaded to an absurd degree. The election was already decided long before it began. One ticket was comprised of students from either the management/business or poly-sci programs, all of whom had expensive suits (COLLEGE STUDENTS, mind you) and PDAs (this was over five years ago, mind you, so that was actually just becoming a fad). Their ticket included five white males, one Asian woman, and one Latino male, and this was at a school with 70% female students. Every member of their ticket was a member of the College Republicans. It was seriously like watching live satire.

At our school, there were rules about how much a group could spend during campaigning for student government. The winning ticket broke all of them, multiple times. The punishment? They were told that their budget allowance was cut. Let me make that clear: they spent more than they were supposed to, multiple times, and each time the punishment was that they were told that they weren't allowed to go over budget. The budget they already were ignoring.

There were also rules about where, when, and how campaigning could occur. The winning ticket broke those, too. No penalties were imposed.

I'd only participated in the process because a very good friend of mine brow-beat me into joining his ticket, so fortunately this wasn't something I'd had my heart set on. But it really made me ill to watch a bunch of bratty rich kids literally be given power as a reward for refusing to follow the rules.

Item #153 on the list of reasons why I tear up all the alumni mailers asking me for money.

I was on a ticket for student government during my undergrad days.

I thought I was cynical before that election, but by the end of it I was jaded to an absurd degree. The election was already decided long before it began. One ticket was comprised of students from either the management/business or poly-sci programs, all of whom had expensive suits (COLLEGE STUDENTS, mind you) and PDAs (this was over five years ago, mind you, so that was actually just becoming a fad). Their ticket included five white males, one Asian woman, and one Latino male, and this was at a school with 70% female students. Every member of their ticket was a member of the College Republicans. It was seriously like watching live satire.

At our school, there were rules about how much a group could spend during campaigning for student government. The winning ticket broke all of them, multiple times. The punishment? They were told that their budget allowance was cut. Let me make that clear: they spent more than they were supposed to, multiple times, and each time the punishment was that they were told that they weren't allowed to go over budget. The budget they already were ignoring.

There were also rules about where, when, and how campaigning could occur. The winning ticket broke those, too. No penalties were imposed.

I'd only participated in the process because a very good friend of mine brow-beat me into joining his ticket, so fortunately this wasn't something I'd had my heart set on. But it really made me ill to watch a bunch of bratty rich kids literally be given power as a reward for refusing to follow the rules.

Item #153 on the list of reasons why I tear up all the alumni mailers asking me for money.

Ouch. Here if you break any of the rules regarding election you are automatically disqualified. I am not allowed to start campaigning until Monday, I will have to attend Candidates Question Time so the students can ask me about policies. No mud slinging or you're out. The campaign budget is whatever you can afford and all of us being poor students, it won't be big.

The Uni follows these rules to the letter and the outcome are fair elections. If only real government followed such rules.

Ouch. Here if you break any of the rules regarding election you are automatically disqualified. I am not allowed to start campaigning until Monday, I will have to attend Candidates Question Time so the students can ask me about policies. No mud slinging or you're out. The campaign budget is whatever you can afford and all of us being poor students, it won't be big.

The Uni follows these rules to the letter and the outcome are fair elections. If only real government followed such rules.

Good for them!

It probably didn't help that I went to a massive university, and the administration basically viewed the student government as a way for a few select kids to pad their resumes. I think the administration wanted to give that padding to the kids that they figured were most likely to grow up and become major politicians or businessmen, because then they could say, "Oh yeah, Secretary So-and-so was a Student Leader at our university! Send your kids here and give us your money!"

Which is pragmatic, but shitty for anybody who isn't already a rich white kid or a conservative token.

I was on a ticket for student government during my undergrad days.

I thought I was cynical before that election, but by the end of it I was jaded to an absurd degree. The election was already decided long before it began. One ticket was comprised of students from either the management/business or poly-sci programs, all of whom had expensive suits (COLLEGE STUDENTS, mind you) and PDAs (this was over five years ago, mind you, so that was actually just becoming a fad). Their ticket included five white males, one Asian woman, and one Latino male, and this was at a school with 70% female students. Every member of their ticket was a member of the College Republicans. It was seriously like watching live satire.

At our school, there were rules about how much a group could spend during campaigning for student government. The winning ticket broke all of them, multiple times. The punishment? They were told that their budget allowance was cut. Let me make that clear: they spent more than they were supposed to, multiple times, and each time the punishment was that they were told that they weren't allowed to go over budget. The budget they already were ignoring.

There were also rules about where, when, and how campaigning could occur. The winning ticket broke those, too. No penalties were imposed.

I'd only participated in the process because a very good friend of mine brow-beat me into joining his ticket, so fortunately this wasn't something I'd had my heart set on. But it really made me ill to watch a bunch of bratty rich kids literally be given power as a reward for refusing to follow the rules.

Item #153 on the list of reasons why I tear up all the alumni mailers asking me for money.

Ouch. Here if you break any of the rules regarding election you are automatically disqualified. I am not allowed to start campaigning until Monday, I will have to attend Candidates Question Time so the students can ask me about policies. No mud slinging or you're out. The campaign budget is whatever you can afford and all of us being poor students, it won't be big.

The Uni follows these rules to the letter and the outcome are fair elections. If only real government followed such rules.

Seconded. Last year someone was disqualified for handing out lollipops he bought with his own money to people he was canvassing.

I'd probably do very well in an election until the first debate. That's a long time to go without tackling someone. *nod*

I'd probably do very well in an election until the first debate. That's a long time to go without tackling someone. *nod*

Tackling is a perfectly reasonable rebuttal. Right up there with "Your mother didn't think so last night" and "No, you're gay!"

Tackling is a perfectly reasonable rebuttal. Right up there with "Your mother didn't think so last night" and "No, you're gay!"

"My esteemed opponent is a shithead."

"My esteemed opponent is a shithead."

I know you are but what am I?

I know you are but what am I?

*tackles you*

So this thread evolves from where I have just finshed my manifesto for the position of Events Officer at my University. This is the first election I have ever stood for and I'm looking forward to it.

So NSGer's have you ever run in an election? Will you ever run in an election? Or do you see it as a waste of time?


I ran for student body president back in highschool. heh...it was rather funny really since my buddies on the football team and I ran as the Student Social Union (a.k.a "The Blackshirts"). We were aggressive, tore down other peoples propaganda posters and put up old Italian Fascist Posters and all kinds of shit. It was hysterical, and tons of fun. We got beaten bad in the election though, not many others thought it was funny :(

I ran for student body president back in highschool. heh...it was rather funny really since my buddies on the football team and I ran as the Student Social Union (a.k.a "The Blackshirts"). We were aggressive, tore down other peoples propaganda posters and put up old Italian Fascist Posters and all kinds of shit. It was hysterical, and tons of fun. We got beaten bad in the election though, not many others thought it was funny :(

The original post of this story when I first read I found it hilarious.

The original post of this story when I first read I found it hilarious.


hehe thanks! I don't have time to post the full on out good version that I used in the other thread, so I used the concise one :tongue:

I sort of stood for an election last April within my Union. An internal review committee was being formed, and they asked for two volunteers, 3 people volunteered, and we were all set for an election until someone moved that the committee be enlarged.

On paper I've stood for election within the workplace branch of the union - in reality it's been more volunteering for a paper position, with the one exception of the being a "strike vote delegate" (and all that means is that at the annual meeting, I get to cast a vote on whether or not the union agrees we can engage in strike actions if need be).

So NSGer's have you ever run in an election? Will you ever run in an election? Or do you see it as a waste of time?

Yes, I did. Not that I did have any chance, though.

People keep telling me to run for local office...

...I keep telling them to give me whatever it is they're smoking.

Stood in UK local elections last year, just as a paper candidate. I campaigned for others in that election and will be involved in the Euro campaign next year and onwards.

what Ifreann said cept no Uni or anything, just cheaper beer, period.

Treasurer of history club
Treasurer of Asians American association (I know not Asian, but it was their Idea I join.)
In retrospect they really shouldn't have elected me to those position.

I ran for somthing in my junior school, but I got so badly beaten I hit the kid that won.
So I got banned from running for anything again at that school.
I doubt I'll ever run for anything again as I can't realy speak in public and I have little charisma.

I would, except the pay as Australian PM is pretty s*it, so. =/

I would, except the pay as Australian PM is pretty s*it, so. =/

No wonder most of PMs have been pretty s*it

Only gay commies with not enough homework and nothing better to do run for any kind of office in college.

I would, except the pay as Australian PM is pretty s*it, so. =/

Yeah it isn't that great but think about all the perks you get. Free servants, travel around the world free entrance to all the best events. Not to mention if you are in there for long enough you also get a good pension.

In fact this is one of the reasons why I would like to be a state MP the amount of travel they go on around the world to 'learn about other countries and what they do' and then don't actually implement anything from their 'investigations' is pretty sweet.

Or in SA become a thinker in residence, it is a six month term where you are provided a residence get to go to state dinners and get paid to sit around on your arse for six months before coming up with some plan to make the state better. It doesn't matter what you come up with because the current state government in all their years have never implemented any of these ideas, (Some of which have been good) so it doesn't matter what plan you come up with.

Only gay commies with not enough homework and nothing better to do run for any kind of office in college.

Hey! I have a ton of homework and a lot of better things to do!


I just wanted to be cool :(

Students' Union shit.

Only gay commies with not enough homework and nothing better to do run for any kind of office in college.

Thats what I thought too until I read Embezzlement for Dummies. :p

I would run, and when I get voted in, Britain shall be a dictatorship the likes of which the world had seen before but never expected to happen there! hahahaha


It is not a matter of if, my friends, it is a matter of when...

I'd like to, but doubt I'd be up to all the bullshit required to actually get elected, or even come close to challenging. So I probably won't, and instead have to satisfy my political craving with NSG, political graffiti and firebombings.

I'm thinking about running for city council but that's years away, if at all.

I ran for students council twice in junior high and was elected once as an alternate classroom delegate. A couple of years ago I was acclaimed as President of a Riding Association, but that hardly counts.

I prefer to stay outside the public eye.

So this thread evolves from where I have just finshed my manifesto for the position of Events Officer at my University. This is the first election I have ever stood for and I'm looking forward to it.

So NSGer's have you ever run in an election? Will you ever run in an election? Or do you see it as a waste of time?
Being separated from the Navy for mental health reasons makes the possibility of my successfully running for any sort of office remote at best.

I ran for some elections a couple of times. Won some, lost some :)