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So who will the unfortunate ones be?

Ramsay "flies under the radar" according to The Journal

According to The Journal, Adam Ramsay's campaign although attracting support from EUSA "celebrities" like Tom French, is flying under the radar as he fails to make an impact across the wider student population.

Adam Ramsay - up your game!

And as someone below pointed out, does Tom French's endorsement mean he's in breach of EUSA regulations?

Facebook-Poll-The Journal

Congrats on the Facebook group setup by Scott George McCombe which now has 200 members.

It's great to see everyone there is prepared to post under their own name. If you haven't been there yet then the link is http://ed.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5927093663

If you have time and want to help out, invite all your Facebook friends to the group.

Needless to say we're trouncing Tom French and his ironic Facebook group entitled "Vote Tom French No.1 as EUSA's worst sabbatical," which had just 48 members.

Commiserations to him however as Josh MacAlister pipped him to the post in our poll for EUSA's worst sabb. Mysteriously, the votes leapt up over night to overtake Tom.

Perhaps this is Josh trying to help out Tom as part of their "good" relationship or just someone being a sad gimp and voting for Josh all night. You decide.

And just for the record, we're not anything to do with The Journal. Both student newspapers have printed letters from our supporter, Sarah Arbroath, and The Journal covered us because we're damn newsworthy! I'm sure the Student newspaper will cover us too.

Trouble in paradise?

Today's Journal made for some interesting reading this morning. Not only did they cover our blog in gory detail (THANK YOU!!!) but also there's a nice little piece about Tom French being acquitted from that indecent behaviour saga.

Its clear to see that things are not quite as cosy at the top as our noble President made out in his last statement to us.

Here is a little game of spot the difference loyal readers:

a) "Tom and I get on really well so this isn't an issue." Josh MacAlister in an email to EUSA-less

and

b) "Mr French has lodged a counter-complaint against the mishandling of the investigation by EUSA, including leaking of the allegations to the press and the "general procedure" followed.

The conduct of EUSA president Josh MacAlister and the lack of support given to Mr French were criticised in the counter-complaint. Mr French has asked that Mr MacAlister's communications with the EUSA-funded newpaper, Student, be investigated for suspected breach of data protection laws and association policies. " The Journal

Keep and eye on this one people.. could get messy.

But in reality are these investigations actually going to find anything out? Well they are undertaken, it seems, by one of EUSAs very well paid permanent staff, Mr Graham Boyack, the permanent secretary to the Association and also its Returning Officer. Hardly the most partial of opinions. This looks to me like the sort of investigation that Gordon Brown would instigate... but that doesn't surprise me either. These investigations should be undertaken by someone from outside the inner working circle. Why not start with the University.. it does after all keep EUSA afloat with seven figure cash injections every year...

The Sabbaticals respond - well, kind of...

EUSA-less wrote to Tom French and Josh MacAlister asking if they wanted to comment on the emails we've put up proving that the Vice President threatened the Student newspaper with a ban from EUSA property (see the evidence here)

Tom French refused to give his own comment and merely told us he agreed with Josh.

Josh MacAlister commented

"Tom and I get on really well so this isn't an issue."

That's all very well and good Mr. MacAlister, but what of the more pressing issue concerning your Vice President threatening student societies?

Did you not think that this was worthy of a statement from your office? Can you not measure the gravity of the situation facing you as your Vice President's credibility as a student leader is seriously compromised?

Get a handle on the situation now Mr. MacAlister.

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We've received a request to print the rest of the email sent from Mr. MacAlister. We inititally decided not to as it was even more irrelevant to our request for our explanation of the threatening behaviour. But in the interests of free speech, here it is

"On a general note, this blog is really interesting. We try our best to represent students and do a good job. However, if people have got concerns, criticisms and suggestions then the whole team would be more than happy to sit down and see what we could do better or change."

So, if anyone does have concerns, criticisms and suggestions after reading our blog, you know who to go to!

The EVIDENCE

Apologies if our initial source quoted us wrong, but there you have it. Absolute proof that Tom French threatened Student newspaper with a ban from EUSA property.

We'd implore Tom French to issue a statement about this.

(see more about this story here)

Vice President of EUSA threatened Student newspaper & slagged off President

Apologies to return to a bit of mudslinging but this one really can't be helped, especially as it is from impeccable sources and backed up by written evidence.

The Student newspaper published a story in week 2 of this semester about rising drinks price in the Unions.

Tom French, Vice President of Services, threw a hissy fit; calling up the editor and claiming the prices were wrong. The drinks prices had in fact been confirmed by another source, Tim Gee (last year's Vice President).

Despite it being basically one man's word against anothers, Tom French fired off a hugely unprofessional email worded

"You can go ahead and withhold a correction, but if you do we (EUSA) might have to consider withholding your right to distribute on campus buildings"

That's right, Tom French threatened to ban Student because it printed some drinks prices he didn't agree with. Surely an example of that power-hungry, office abusing little specimen we've been banging on about...

The situation culminated apparently in a two - hour slanging match over the phone, in which Tom French verbally abused the editor of Student newspaper and even slagged off the President with

"yeah he likes to act like a hard-man but he really isn't, he gets upset about everything"

Well, sorry to drag Tom French into this again but it really looks like he did a bad job here - threatening a society with sanctions while slagging off his colleagues at the same time.

Make your own conclusions about the clique running EUSA now, do we want a change? I think we do...

Comment spamming

Dear EUSA-less readers,

Overnight it seems that around seventy pointless comments were posted across the blog.

It's fairly obvious that these originated from EUSA officials, who displayed their usual sense of "professional integrity."

We accept that much of what we say has probably caused personal offence to some of the sabbaticals, no names mentioned but our attacks are meant only to publicise the wide ranging flaws in their personalities which make them unfit for office.

We have, in fact, held back on many accusations. Since this blog has started there have been a dozen or more emails from supporters, containing anecdotes about the sabbaticals which we could not publish. Needless to say, we're shocked at some of what you guys get up to...

But in due course, our blog will begin the serious work of debating the reform of EUSA. There are some serious constitutional changes needed from top-to-bottom, and we intend to be in the vanguard of this.

Think of this blog as clearing the decks, expunging the bad blood, highlighting what placing power in the hands of poorly-formed characters can do to an organisation. We have a few serious scandals to expose and then you can listen to our proposals...

So, what to do about the comments posted by EUSA officials? We have been asked by four or five people to turn on moderating of comments.

We're not keen to turn on moderating, it's an obvious infringement of free speech.

But from now on, if comments are clearly off topic (i.e. Lord of the Rings etc), or have any legal implications, they will be deleted.

It is also completly unacceptable to pose under names of real students at this university. We have recieved complaints of this happening and it is not on.

Thank to all of you who read the blog and support us, your emails and messages of support are much appreciated...

Tom French - Consider your position, NOW!

Tom Tom Tom...EUSA-less really aren't very impressed with you.

Tom French, as you all know, is under investigation for an alleged indecent sexual act in Teviot Library Bar.

Well, we say investigation, it's much more likely that it'll all be brushed under the carpet if nobody stands up and demands an explanation. Knowing student politics, this might well have happened in the past, but not any more...

Tom is strangely absent from EUSA at the moment - the question is, is he suspended or is he on "compassionate leave?

We numpties at EUSA-less were under the impression that if you were granted "compassionate leave" it was because of something sad, terrible etc beyond your control...oh how we are mistaken.

This power-hungry, Labour-loving, back-stabbing, office-abusing specimen, totally unfit for his position, has decided that it's not his fault that he got caught romping round Teviot with his boyfriend, oh no, it's something that we should all feel very sorry for him about, we should still pay him and let him sit at home twiddling his thumbs and crying about what a misrepresented poor boy he is...

GROW UP! You are being groomed for Labour party politics, you know it, we know it, they know it.

Stand up and explain what the hell you were doing in the Library Bar!

If you can explain it, fair enough. If you can't, you should resign. It's a good lesson to learn Tommo, now, while you're still young...it's much worse out there, believe me, and the shit really sticks.

Right now, you are responsible for four Union buildings, up to £7m of EUSA spending each year, a large body of bar staff, supervisors, bar managers, and the safety of all who enter the Union houses.

You are faced with serious allegations which compromise your integrity as an individual and your suitability for office.

You should NOT be sitting at home, on OUR TIME, setting up "hilarious" Facebook groups called "Vote Tom French #1 as EUSA's worst sabbatical." Ironic, haha, all very funny for you and your merry gang of supporters.

But GET A GRIP - in public, in general politics, you'd be out by your ear, strung up, on the front page of The Daily Mail being hammered for an indecent act you should have known better about.

I call on all of you who read this blog, be you friends/supporters of Tom French or not, to seriously consider whether he is a proper representative of the Edinburgh student.

Whether his example should stand as an example for all.

Whether he should be at home laughing it off with frivolous Facebook antics.

Whether he should be considering his position.

Whether he should be involved with EUSA at all.

Show us the body Mr. President...

My spies tell me that four large men dressed in suits were seen entering the EUSA offices around four pm this afternoon...EUSA-less is as yet clueless to what they were there for.. we can but hope they have come to arrest Tom French..for being useless..nothing else...

Talking of TommyF it was interesting to note that in the new edition of HYPE there was one very key entry missing from the sabbaticals reports.. Where was Mr French's? Why is everything so quiet about this...

Show us the body Josh...

"Fuck You" - A response

In light of the following comment posted today concerning the allegations of improper lewd conduct against our favourite VPS Tom French, EUSA-less would like to go on record for the time being in stating that we will not be commenting on this issue until EUSA release the findings of their investigation.

So its hush hush from us on this one. Period.

We of course have utmost confidence that EUSA wouldn't dare try somehow fix the findings of this investigation...

This is what the "Former EUSA Monkey" had to say though...

"RESIGN!

RESIGN!
RESIGN!

Why has this not happened yet?

Why has EUSA gone so quiet about this issue?

Why has French not been suspended while the investigation takes place?

How can he be allowed to hide behind the homophobic card - the issue is his behaviour, not his lifestyle?

Will EUSA please release the outcome of their investigation.

Can we be assured of French being fired, or resigning (if he has the guts) if he has been found to lie?
I know I am not alone in having delt with this lying, cheating scumbag as I was there when he was climbing the greasy pole of the EUSA ranks alongside him. He has proven whatevery feared when he was elected. This spiteful and vicious coward is not up for the job.

EUSA's 25,000 members deserve to know the FULL STORY.

And the whole truth...

Instead of people saying FUCK EUSA they should instead turn to Mr French and say FUCK YOU SIR.
25 November 2007 16:07 "

Tom changes his tack

After EUSA-less pointed out yesterday that Tom French lovingly refers to the clientelle of McColls newsagent as "druggies and chavs," a quick check of his Facebook profile reveals that he's deleted this information from his profile...

EUSA hits back...

The EUSA machine clearly spends its time and resources trawling the internet for dissent as even before this website is properly launched the EUSA man of moment hits back...

TOM FRENCH:
"Have you attempted coming into the office for a copy of the budget? I'm sure I could get you one. We've got our own photocopier and everything!"
22 November 2007 18:19

Yes we have thanks Tom and like the budget of many left wing dominated organisations, you scratch beneath the surface and underneath you find a shambles.

Maybe you could explain how appalling inefficiency means that EUSA managed to blow over a hundred thousand pounds on office "administration" in 2007?

That's a lot of photocopying Tom...

Add it to the list of your actions that need explaining... must be a long one this week...