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Jump To Comment: 1At least when you have an open FF head in a union you can argue politics with them. In my experience of student union politics its the wishy, washy "in it for the students" brigade that are generally worse - they have an ideology but deny it. Stuck to the middle of the road like dead rabbits, they are overly determined to ensure that nothing, NOTHING good, bad or indifferent happens in a union. That stalemate of political play denies the very real link between politics and student issues.
The argument you are using now is all fine and good as you are attacking right wing party members. But I have seen the exact same argument used by self described "apolitical" right wingers to attack the left. "Why are you always bringing politics into the union? Why are you pushing an agenda?" is cried out whenever you raise anything progressive outside a letter writing camapign regards student issues. Just go have a look at the current shower in UCD, Aonghus was preferable - at least you could rally against him as a hate figure. That lot just sow indifference. As for the gaint Ents Office that is DITSU...