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Body Shop: BYC = collateral damage

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NitroNine · 27/05/2024 12:40

It turns out that the Body Shop’s brokeness from wokeness also sank the British Youth Council a couple of months ago.

Once can of course question how useful BYC was (mostly it was [absurd] posturing & for years some organisations - looking at you Girlguiding - made their members vote en bloc which still makes me want to shake whoever came up with that idiocy: hard enough for someone to accurately represent all of the huge area they’re meant to…) but shutting down an opportunity for young people to become more politically aware & engaged doesn’t seem a brilliant plan. Especially if serious consideration is being given to extension of the franchise to 16 year olds.

British Youth Council announces closure after 75 years

The move raises questions over the future of initiatives such as the UK Youth Parliament, which the council organised

https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/british-youth-council-announces-closure-75-years/management/article/1866322

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GrimDamnFanjo · 28/05/2024 00:49

Former BYC reporting in! Yes the block voting! I used to laugh long and hard at the NUS delegates having their arses handed to them by the Couts.

GrimDamnFanjo · 28/05/2024 00:53

Scouts!

To be honest it's really sad to read that. I would reckon that Brexit would have had an impact on the funding too.

NitroNine · 28/05/2024 02:01

Oh, the NUS… when I was BYC-ing one of them decided to get aggy with/about something they’d essentially made up about Girlguiding 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

They also used to produce startlingly illiterate motions for, y’know, people allegedly representing the nation’s students 🤨

There wasn’t even noise made about it going under.

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