The whole “YUSU Clique” would disappear with him at the helm though.

But I hope he doesn’t get in. A Pirate President? York would be a complete laughing stock, surely?

Black or brown? The point is he isn’t white and that is what he is trying to get across. He trying to say vote for something different as if he is a radical change, like Obama.

He is just as a pathetic candidate as Laura except he is pretending to unite everyone together by being from a minority.

Does York have a race problem? No, it certainly does not. Does America? Yes, a very serious one. Someone like Obama in charge means massive changes and would be a superb thing. Someone like Nadeem in charge doesn’t mean anything more than weak promises he has no intention of keeping.

I’m voting for Tom Scott as at least he has a sense of humour and is original.

You may be colour-blind… but the colour of their skin is not the same. Nadz is BROWN, Obama is BLACK. Unless you count all non-white people as the same, that is a big difference. So it’s clearly not an attempt to play the race card.

Obama represent a break from the Clinton/Bush dynasties in America. He represents something different and something new and that is exactly what Nadz is offering in York.

It also adds a bit of the US election spice to our own usually dull elections.

Chill out and take it in the light-hearted fashion it was meant.

The message sent out by the sanctions today show that any breach of the election regulations will not be accepted and this will of course apply to tampering with other candidates’ publicity.

Come up with something original, instead of trying to ride the coat tails of a true to be great leader.

As for the email and the postering, if those two things are explicitly against the rules then the campaign ban seems justified here. Although, if the email was not sent out by one of Nadz’ campaign team it also seems a little unfair.

I do feel it is worth mentioning that while YUSU seem all too willing to crack down on these actions - rightly or not - it seems the far more serious issue of campaign posters for Charlie Leyland and Alan Duffel alledgedly being taken down by Mathew Pallas, the other candidate running for Academic and Welfare(apparently caught in the act), is not being investigated by YUSU to the degree which should be necessary, given the nature of the accusations.

I’m pretty sure deliberately sabotaging your rival candidate’s campaign is more serious than a facebook note or even an email.

I suppose that more needs to be done to inform the general student population that whether they are official campaigners or not, they are still the responsibility of the candidate they are supporting. I’m sure that whichever president ends up in office, they’ll all try to avoid this sort of thing happening next year.