I MUST criticise the coverage that you have given to student ingly against ultra vires limitations, to get clected to conference, or to come lo a personal position on the SSA. Questions that should have been answered (admittedly they (so have been askedi) includ firmation of NUS's charity status f it was simply a reaffirmation bov ould the situation b en changed by it? What extr pressures were to be individual unions to enforce altre vires? Why have, despite pressures, colleges simply disregarded ultra vires and remained in NUS? onsitional Vegal definition of constitutional (legal) definition sayments which are beyond ou powers'? Why wasn't it mentioned that there has never been a court room verdict or prosecution of a union said to be making ultra vires payments. (1 have heard that dispuses of this sort have always coLt)? It should have been pointed out that BIC setting up itself, and individual union executives as interpreters of the law — over and above general meetings and Also, is 'No Platform" ultra vires? If it was simply linked to autonomy and the enforcement of the constitution more generally. why was it enforced? Could the consider expelling NUS Wales simply be consistent?
I have found the answers to most of these questions, though they are not all very clear to me and have often arrived too late. I did not find these answers in Socialist Challenge and too often found them embarassingly out argued by Broa LES HARTOP (Cardiff)
union Finally I would like to say that it is not too late to answer these questions - the autonomy debate still rages. • FREE total membership. issued to branches, but is likely to reach only a small proportion of the What is urgenrly required is a united ban the chac Tri him and aR ASLEF, TSSA. The Front feeds on the three tail unIons