At a recent Student Union hustings, where the Liberal Democrats were represented by John Leech, Labour failed to send a representative. Obviously, this is pretty embarrassing, and suggests that Labour don’t take students and the student vote seriously

What makes it much worse, and the reason I’m posting about it, is that when Student Direct investigated, a Fallowfield Labour councillor decided to threaten news editor Girish Gupta for exposing the organisational incompetence which lead to the Labour no-show. This is clearly unacceptable - they should have just owned up to the mistake, admitted that they got it wrong by failing to engage with the Student Union, and moved on. Threatening a journalist to cover up your own mistakes is just inexcusable. It’s an attack on journalism, and an attack on students. No matter which party you stand for, this behaviour is just not acceptable for a councillor. I’m glad that Girish has the integrity to publish the story, including the Labour threats, and stand up to the bullies.

Fortunately, this particular Fallowfield Labour councillor is standing for re-election on Thursday. By voting Lib Dem in Fallowfield, you can send a message that bullying and intimidation from our elected representatives cannot be justified.