Richards Brooks vice president of the NUS.   "Some people have more equal rights than others"

Now where have we heard that before?

If some sort of policy is being thought up with regards to a section of the public, it can't be beyond the realms of fantasy to actually confer with members of that section.

Of course one could do what the Yara Council in Melbourne did when deciding to do away with Australia Day.  They distributed a survey paper among activists and their associates in order to get the result they wanted.

We are living in a time of the victim olympics where everyone (other than white males) are some sort of victim somewhere on the victim ladder and where they turn to authority to put things right.  Except of course they cannot be put right because no longer being a victim is unacceptable, the goalposts are moved so often they are on wheels.

There's a difference between self-promotion and principle

Decided by whom?  You could say that every politian who make a speech is only doing it to promote themselves.