abingdon street prep school student council elections

With the Abingdon Street Preparatory School student council elections drawing ever closer it is time to consider who you are going to elect to represent you on the school council. As usual there are a number of candidates to choose between but today we will be focussing on the campaign of the main contender to the existing councillor.

Early indications were that he would win comfortably without actually making a single firm policy commitment but pressure is growing on him to commit to something. A frantic scramble over the last few days has halted his diminishing popularity among the student body but his early campaign based on unspecified 'change' is no longer providing the forward momentum it initially generated.

One thing he is committed to is appearing to make popular promises. Only yesterday he took to the stage at a special assembly to promise that any petition that could gather more than 30 signatures will be eligible to be formally debated by the school council, and any petition with 60 signatures or more would allow students to table a motion that could end up being debated and voted on by the council. The chess and computer clubs were huddled deep in negotiations when a member of the mathematics pointed out that the key words were 'will be' and 'could'.

His campaign has hit a few snags; most recently over who exactly provides his dinner money. Rumours abound in the sixth form that it comes from an off-shore investor in his campaign, in direct contravention of school rules, a fact that he will neither confirm or deny.

Then there was the terrible incident which resulted in his school photograph being attacked by vandals. This seriously dented his credibility among his peers and he became the laughing stock of the school for some weeks. The investigation has yet to uncover the parties behind the defacement.

On to the manifesto then. The central pledges in his campaign are

• Petty cash overspending will be reduced by more than 50% by the end of the academic year
• The running of the Tuck Shop will be put in the hands of a more efficient external catering company
  
• 'Personal tuition' for any male students falling behind in biology from Iain Dale
  
• To be a much better councillor than the existing one
  
• Hall monitors to be granted powers to administer on the spot chinese burns to reduce congestion
• Prefects to be given power to perform homework compliance searches
• Ring-fencing Matron's funding
  

Next week: In depth with another candidate