The national campaign to disaffiliate from the NUS is picking up momentum, with Newcastle University announcing today that they will follow Lincoln in leaving the “Zionist-led media”-hating student bores. 67% of voters supported disaffiliation in Newcastle, after a campaign that mobilised nearly 1,000 votes against the NUS. And as control slips, the NUS are panicking…

In Exeter, co-conspirators report an NUS funded Project Fear-style campaign to stay, with the national student organisation sending 3,000 texts to students:

Leaked messages reveal paid up NUS employees such as the current president Malia Bouattia and a number of vice-presidents, as well as their apparatchiks from other universities, have been bussed in to Exeter en masse, even cajoling students in their own homes:

One source claims the Stay campaign is using gay dating app Grindr to push smears against Leave (branded “Exiter”). By bringing in outside campaigners, the NUS are flouting Exeter’s strict £60 campaign spending limit, changing the rules to fit their aims. Project Fear, use of large contact lists, breaching spending limits – all trademark campaign tricks of Remainers…