Elections silly season started - six people care

9am torts lecture today was made briefly amusing by someone who's running for one of the sabb positions. This is all I remember of it, apart from that it was blatantly being read off a piece of paper, so memorable were her policies that she needs to write them down to recall:

"Hello, blah blah blah, Women's Officer (normally I'd turn off here, but unlike the discrimination hellhole that is Warwick, men are allowed to vote), blah blah blah, free condoms, blah blah blah" - throws out sweets.

This is the flaw with student politics - apart from the fact that I couldn't hear her name, every candidate runs on the exact same ticket. The temptation to go to hustings and just ask "what policies do you have that are different from your opponents?" is huge. But I really doubt I'd care, seeing how whoever has the biggest social circle wins anyway (cf. the rugby union reign of terror at Warwick). I don't know any of the candidates (well, I might do, but there's less than two weeks until a vote and I've seen none of the following:

- dozens of coloured A4 posters around the union with some witty pun attached to their name
- prior to today, anyone openly going round advertising they're running with some ridiculous publicity stunt/gimmick
- a list of candidates from whatever Sheffield's equivalent of Elections Group is, in the Steel Press or anywhere)

I'm sure they're all decent people - all of the ex-sabbs I knew from Warwick were alright folk, as were those I knew that didn't get in. It's just that I couldn't give a shit who wins.

edit (19/2) - I've just had a look at the pdf for the candidates that's shown up on the union website. Luckily, good old RON's available for election.