If you have been following goings on in Hull University Union – or if you have just been about campus – then you will have noticed the SOS:U – Save Our Students’ Union banners everywhere, with various people telling you to vote “YES”. Now, I have purposely kept out of the arguments – as the current chair of Council, I don’t wish to be biased, and, besides, I have had too much going on with my PhD. Now the vote is over, and the results… well, are yet to be announced…

The vote needs a 2/3rds majority YES vote to pass – and 10% FTE of the student membership, roughly 1700 students, to vote. Unfortunately, in a vote at HUU, the best turnout has been 1500 students, and that is for the UEC elections… until now!

While we do not know the result yet, we do know that 1762 students voted, the 10% that the union needed – so the result of the vote, due on Monday at 10am, is a binding result and must be followed through.

So, to end this short post, I offer my congratulations to Helen Gibson and her UEC and Union staff, and all the volunteers that helped to get the 10% they needed to vote – they have achieved more than previous UEC’s with respect to voter turnout.

Of course… there is the little matter of the results – Monday will be a very telling day…