Port & Policy 2
Tuesday saw the very welcome return of one of UCL Conservatives’ finest events, Port and Policy; the first debate was between Oli Cooper and Stuart Davenport on the topic ‘This house believes that the United Kingdom should leave the European Union’ Oli proposing the motion, Stuart opposing the motion. As expected this led to another fantastic Cooper-Davenport debate which we at UCL have come to love. After hearing their debate and the floor speeches it was time to vote. This one was won by Stuart by a huge majority.
The second debate of the night was between Eamonn Hurley-Flynn and Iain Martin with Eamonn proposing the motion ‘The house believes that corporal punishment should be reinstated in school’. Another heated and passionate debate followed as each side, aided by Stuart Barfield and Stuart Turner, tried to sway our opinions and collect our votes on this issue. After each side had laid out their views it was time for the floor speeches. This was clearly a very strong and personal topic to many members of the audience, some even having person experience of this subject. In the end the motion was opposed but quite interestingly by only 3 votes.
The third debate of the evening was the balloon debate, always a popular and amusing one especially as all the characters for tonight were chosen by Starbuck. They included Gordon Brown, Davina McCall, George Osborne and Starbuck himself. After much laughter and attempts from each person to convince us why exactly we should keep them in it was down to the last two Starbuck and Gordon. Amazingly Gordon Brown one. This may partly be because people seemed to like the idea of putting him in a balloon and just leaving him floating somewhere above our country rather than having him ruining sorry running our country.
All in all it was yet another fantastic event, after polishing off the remainder of the port it was off to Potion to wash it down with a few Gin and Tonics, pints and a variety of cocktails. The next UCL event is in about two weeks and is with Douglas Murray.
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