Hertford JCR has avoided the threat to their democracy posed by the motion that would establish a House of Lords composed of PPE students to rule the JCR.
The original motion was amended during this week’s meeting so that the whole JCR were made members of the new House of Lords, and endowed with the title “Lord X of Hertford JCR”.
Further amendments were that the House of Lords would agree by default with any decisions made in JCR meetings, hence removing the need ever to convene a meeting of the House of Lords.
The new motion was passed near unanimously, the only people voting against it in amended form being those who had proposed the motion in the first place.
One student, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I think it is excellent to recognize that it is not PPE students, but the whole Hertford student body, who is truly elite”.
A follow-up motion to disenfranchise the PPEists who proposed the original motion was not submitted in time but will be discussed at the next meeting.
