NUS “Totum” discount card student boycott

[hiitsjay]

I saw that uni students are organising a boycott of the NUS on Facebook... www.facebook.com/boycottnus

I’ve read all sorts of stories and am quite concerned by the so-called national union of students.

Just a bit of research I did...
thetab.com/uk/2018/07/30/nus-trans-officer-suspended-over-claims-she-posted-explicit-photographs-of-a-person-flashing-75122
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/20/malia-bouattia-elected-nus-president-after-causing-controversy/
thetab.com/uk/2018/01/05/the-nus-have-proved-yet-again-that-they-dont-really-care-about-jewish-students-57259
www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/nus-condemned-after-refusing-to-vote-on-motion-condemning-hezbollah-presence-at-al-quds-day-march-1.465168

I’m shocked. It’s certainly not something I’d want my child funding.

It seems that most of the discounts on there are on the Unidays app for free, so I don’t get why they would need one.

will you encourage your son/daughter to buy this “Totum” card?

Surely at 18 it's up to them what they buy?

And 70 followers and no posts doesn't sound much of a boycott!

It's true that most of it is on unidays for free. It's also true that NUS is a massive organisation that isn't represented in its whole by the cases you've linked. Its also true that NUS is largely ignored by the vast majority of students, doesn't affect their lives past the discounts, and isn't something they're majorly interested in. The ones boycotting are a particularly vocal subsection.

But the main point is, it's not any of their parents business. They can decide themselves who they want to support, and which issues they want to give their limited political attention to.

Ds has one.
Because it gives him 10% of Co-op shops, and 15% of other shops near to his university campus, and 6 months free amazon prime student, big fan of Grand Tour programme, and then 15% (I think) off monthly cost.
He has a platinum card for his student union at his university, and I believe lots if places often do discounts for NUS members, so he can save money if he visits friends elsewhere.
I doubt he have anything to do with NUS politics

My DC had them from year 12 for the discounts. They paid for themselves in pizza alone .
Once at uni the unidays app covered everything they wanted.
As others have said they have no interest in the NUS other than slight irritation.

Students do things, some of which, some parents and the general public disapprove. Or things which are just plain stupid. Shock. Horror.

As for the (not so) delightful Ms B, you'll find that she (was) moved on a while ago, mercifully.

The current incumbent en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakira_Martin_(NUS)