Would York University students exploit Labour’s new loophole?
asks Sam Fugill At every general election since the genesis of our concrete home, students have had to decide which party deserved their vote the most. During this election, the choice was broadened to constituency, as well as party, due to many being registered at home and at university. Urged by the University and Students’ Union to vote to re-instate the Labour incumbent in the marginal Selby constituency, many students were also pressed to place their vote back at home (“Why not come home for the evening dear? Your father and I would be absolutely thrilled to see you…”). Would York students vote twice? Would they enter into fraud aided by the postal vote? No. Students, when faced with politics, break into one of two classes. Neither of them would actually place two votes. The first class was that of the militant fanatics. They had placed their vote, donning an indecently large rosette, and hit the campus campaign trail by nine o’clock in the morning. Such was the loyalty to their p
