MU Whigs

With our glorious takeover of the UMSU Creative Arts Committee, praise to the King, we can stop terrible things like this from happening;

Outrageous.

A worthy result for a glorious ticket! The MU Whigs are honoured that they have received a mandate from the student body to enact our sensible reforms! Our policies of forming a Student Union Choir in the English Chorale Tradition, Renovating the Guild Theatre in a style akin to George III's sitting room and ensuring that Zadok the Priest is played at 9:07am every Friday morning in Union House will be at the forefront of our agenda!

Yours Truly and with immense excited anticipation,
The MU Whigs!

RESULTS OF THE UMSU CREATIVE ARTS COMMITTEE:

1. Tom Crowley (More!)
2. Karla Livingstone-Pardu (Stand Up!)
3. Isabelle Knight (More!)
4. Jordan Peters (Stand Up!)
5. Claire Miller (Stand Up!)
6. Samuel James Perkins (Whigs)
7. Grace Middleton (Whigs)

1 hour left to Vote [1] Whigs! **kthejacobintrots

Today we were proud to endorse the introduction of the Furphy Appreciation Society, and are pleased to see how many Whig Voters appreciate a good beverage. Unfortunately this correlation led to the Returning Officers placing a ban on our ticket for providing an "inducement to vote", but we'll be back tomorrow for a final hurrah. Remember, Vote [1] Whigs!

A sensible position for a sensible Student Union. Vote [1] Whigs!

People have been asking why the Whigs are not out campaigning today. We're touched to see we are missed, but fear not - we are merely indulging in free cheese and wine. Whigs promise to deliver free cheese and wine every Tuesday when we are elected to office. Vote [1] Whigs

Introducing our first policy! Free Readers for First Years! A truly sensible policy for a glorious Student Union. Vote 1 Whigs!

The Whigs hereby present; the Whig Platform 2016!

Whig Policy Platform 2016.pdf

An article found in the Archives of E.B. Wilmot's Library on the day of Prime Minister Turnbull's Spill:

The UMSU ELECTION 2015 – the Whig Ascendancy

Every September we are faced with the daunting task of running the gauntlet from Alan Gilbert through South Lawn and the Baillieu to the Back Gate without being hassled by the UMSU apparatchiks who attempt to confuse, coerce and condemn you with their various coloured shirts and pamphlets to vote for them. According to official statistics that are never sourced only 5% of us vote for these junior career politicians, and only 3% of students care. With this in mind a week before the most splendid democratic endeavour the Union gives us, myself and a few other nobilitas of the college banded together, found a dusty copy of Lord Macauley’s History of England from the Ascension of James II, donned our yellow ties and set out to win the election. In this moment the MU Whigs were born. What is a Whig, many of you asked during our two weeks of inter-galactic rise to popularity and power. The Whigs were one of the founding political parties of the British Constitutional Parliament and believers in what we would describe as antiquated liberalism, a combination of aristocratic goodwill towards society and a belief in competent individualism. A party dominated by centrists, the MU Whig Shadow Cabinet of Montague Bodkin, Edward Bulstrode Wilmot and Honoria Glossop saw a market opening, a means in which to sideline the extremes of both the left and the right, challenge the student union’s political establishment of rallies and superfluous shouting and an apparatus to rejuvenate the student body in electing their student officials.
Calling on the Spirit of William III of Orange and the Glorious days of 1688 the Whigs took their champagne, cable-knit sweaters and RM’s to the Baillieu:
Day 1:
The evening was spent placing posters around the key areas of the University to attract even the most unassuming students to be won over to place our custom printed vote cards – no need for those plebeian printed UMSU endorsed how-to-vote cards – in the ballot box.
Day 2:
11:30AM Montague Bodkin and Edward Bulstrode Wilmot sauntered over to the Baillieu enticing voters with sensible policy (weekly cheese and wine parties, Saturnalias every fortnight) and outlandish style to make any Sloane Ranger envious.
12:30 AM After a bit of scuffle with the Trots, the MU Whigs retire back to College having won 7 voters and garnering 46 Facebook likes. After a good day’s work, the chaps decided a bit of work for the old man was in order – grooming the studs for the Meningoort Cup.
Day 3:
A haze of champagne, duelling and general banter atop the second floor balcony of Main Building.
Day 4:
1:00PM Montague Bodkin and – The Presidential Candidate and Wom*ns Officer: Vyner Brabazon-Plank are found running around the quad with Honoria’s underwear on their heads, espousing anti-papist sentiment, chanting page 14 of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and taking pot-shots at the tower with their smooth-bore shotguns. Rumours are surfacing that the party is amidst a factional split, between the young Whigs and the old Whigs, the latter arguing in favour of giving the dissenters the vote and the former arguing in favour of the Georgist policy of land-taxation.
10:47PM Press Release from Cyril Fortheringay-Phipps the party Whip and Welfare officer, “there is no factional split, only that Emily Agrippina Worlesdon had forgone the party’s Courvoisier in favour of Handel’s complete works for the party picnic down the coast at Diamond Bay. Some of the cabinet thought this was not in line with party policy.” – Party reunites after Honoria’s old man lends the party his second Range Rover and the keys to the Chalet at Buller.
Day 5:
5:00PM With the election over, the MU Whigs opened the fourth bottle of Brut that afternoon and the second bottle of Sherry, declared victory without having left the second floor balcony.
6:03PM The Chaps now rather rubied and red-faced received communications from Create , declaring that they have foregone their liberal ideas and had surrendered the term to the MU Whigs. The Ascendancy was complete!
11:59PM Party victory celebrations made their way up Spring St to the State Parliament where Edward Bulstrode Wilmot was caught hanging a union-jack over the statute of a minor-colonial hero. Apprehended by the municipal constabulary the shadow cabinet ditched the Range Rover and the Flag; finding their way back to college by the Saturday morning, having lost the gendarmes at the hedonistic palace Revolver Upstairs.

Ad Consentio
The Scarlett Pimpernel

At Time of Writing: MU Whigs have raided their parents’ liquor cabinets, praised 1688, the Queen, Macaulay, TORMANC and William Pitt the Younger due to Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to contest the Liberal Party Leadership. The MU Whigs Moderates to the Hilt are in Full Support of the Hon. Mr Turnbull!

From our liberty loving brethren at Generation Liberty. It must be remembered that while the father of Conservatism Burke was fore mostly a Whig! A glorious advocate of the primacy of Parliament!

Among a People Generally Corrupt, Liberty Cannot Long Exist | Lawrence W. Reed Burke criticized the overreach of government in all spheres, arguing that treating people as pawns of power only bred violence and disorder.

Our central philosophy http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r50wn

Adam Smith and the Whigs, British Liberalism: The Grand Tour - BBC Radio 4 Anne McElvoy revisits the innovative ideas of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.

Donald Trump has proven not only to be a proto-fascist but also a supporter of terrorism. The MU Whigs condemns the actions of this man! Long Live King William III!

Donald Trump attended New York Sinn Fein dinner before IRA London terror attack