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Pensions to be secured, either through an increase in employer contributions to soak up any deficit recovery contributions above the current 2.1%, or through accepting an increased level of risk, or both. No rise to employee contributions above current levels. 

Any rescheduled teaching to be fully paid as additional work.

Resignation of Alistair Jarvis from Universities UK.

The current Universities UK to be replaced by a more transparent and accountable body. An independent public inquiry to be held into the communications and other conduct of Universities UK during the dispute and in the period leading up to it. Universities UK to be made subject to freedom of information requests, ahead of a more thorough restructuring of its governance.

Abolish student fees.

Abolish Teaching Excellence Framework.

Reform Research Excellence Framework.

More funding for counselling and student welfare services.

Fair pay. A pay ratio of 1:10 to be established in all universities, so that the highest salary cannot be more than ten times the lowest salary. An end to below-inflation pay increases.

Democratise university governance by extending the membership and the powers of the Academic Board.

Celebrate the global university. An end to surveillance, harassment and deportation of non-UK national students and academics. Full compensation for students and academics unjustly deported under the current and previous governments.

Representation of all staff, including the lowest paid, on top level management committees.

End marketisation of Higher Education. Universities are collaborators. Competition between universities is of a special kind. ‘Market exit’ (collapse) of any university to be recognised as unacceptable.

Reform the Oxbridge brand. Cambridge University to go private, and Oxford to remain within the public sector.

End outsourced labour. 

Nationalise Unitemps.

An end to golden parachutes and other massive bonuses for Vice-Chancellors. Introduce the option for alternative upper management structures which split the Vice-Chancellor role.

Money is a matter of functions four :

A medium, a measure, a standard, a store.

Not so long ago, my beloved, someone brought me by chance the letters of consolation you sent your friend.  ¶  Now the abolition of markets may be like cutting off – not the head but – the top of a king ; so off comes the neck! ; the shoulders! ; you slice through the breast-bone ; at some point you have a king stain, & you sweep him hard for hours & specific blood finishes up highest.  ¶  For this reason it is right to ask, what laws are just to be promulgated?  ¶  “Only particular dogs.”  Laws on placards.  You have to obey whichever do wiggles.  “No person should for the future execute any trade, craft, or mystery presently executed in England, save he have previously served to it an apprenticeship of seven years at least” in flames.  ¶  Marxist-Leninist morning stretches.  My law books aren’t progressing though.  I don’t mean to do myself down when saying my mental processes are convoluted.  Having taken some pains to get them that way, if anything in fact I’m delighted.  ¶  Seven, eh?  ¶  Bailiffs took everything but they neglected to flip my labia.  Of course I’d neglected to stash anything there.  Still my tactics are improving.  I am thinking of writing a poem.  ¶  Hmmmmmmmm.  There’s a cock in my port.  “Ward it off with a display.”  I have been carefully studying Nordic parliamentary systems but am ignorant of how our Scandinavian friends address the issue of pigs.  ¶  “Archaic gestures, vicious combinations of letters and numbers.”  ¶  Cf. which significant figure the Joint Stock Companies Act (1856) §2 calls for : seven first shall fain hold stock.  ¶  Pass on port, cockwise.  ¶  Let’s see, laws laws laws.  Laa-wws.  ¶  “i hate anarchists and | marxists only i hate | capital somewhat more.”  Sign 33,600 placards flourishfully & signal mes Enragés avec la bunting Bill of Rights the chancels to bedeck.  ¶  Zephyrs. ¶   ¶  “Police wax.” ¶  A thought found on the tongue like a hair.  ¶  Tresses may actually be thoughts, I can’t see my way to discriminating them.  “A new prosody.”  ¶  Cf. Senior Hair Inserter at Tussaud’s with relict concept who contracts Lupus, admits she is without fiscal or financial resource & throws herself on the mercy of her fellows as follows, “General Assembly, I’m not only terrorized by the motives extruding to supplant the profit motive.  Also the aftermath of the Compound Motives Bolus’s profitectomy, in which it wobbles, morphs & goes bloomph.  So obviously I was very interested in what you had to say about prosody!  I wonder what would be necessary to versify articles such as these, Article V. Work.  Every Citizen has the right to carry out their work within such a Context, including such relations of production, that that work contribute to, and not erode, the realisation of the rights and freedoms set out in this Bill.  Article VII.  Political Rights.  Every Citizen has the right to participate in only such Democratic Institutions as afford that Citizen the occasion to sanction and to prefer, and not merely to consent to, every determination of those Institutions.”  ¶ “Use electricity.”  There are visions a horse will puke at but not a pig & so on.  ¶  My camp job is to determine who saw what with my straw down his bucket.  ¶ No need to return to our precise stance on oil ; upon self-rule via Workers Councils, all energy will be generated in the most rational & scientific manner lol.  On my wall I have name of the man where Doris wishes one day to be buried.  Maybe they can use whatever results.  ¶  Alas! ¶  Like “a rapid collectivising of subjectivity equally rapidly involves locked doors, barricades, self-definition through antagonism etc.  If you weren’t there, you just won’t get it.”  ¶  And I say “they” because . . . I’m so attached to this life as a cat,[1] I’m inclined to continue it indefinitely. Miaow, yeah?  ¶  ¶  Guess that’s it for now, & this.  (1) The meaning of phenomenal freedom is underestimated in most of its most advanced interpretation.  Seen mainly as occlusive of real freedom.  Yet the mere apprehension of liberty is also a legitimate & a likely object of true liberty.  At the cusp it can be nurtured in the calculation of advantage – let us say, in arithmetic frolic.  (2) Our juridical formalisms experience no recoil. Stipulatively, every release resets itself to status quo ante like Ren & Stimpy episodes.  Yet the statistics ratchet.  My intuition is that magistrates must be ascribed Hit Points like the RPG sorcerers they most resemble.  (3) So far the purest legal terminology is nigger.  ¶  (4) 33,654.  ¶  ¶  The camp is filled with rumours as though with cats.  Laws must, by the speed with which they warp & spread, be rumours but they could have been numbers.  I come across, whenever I try to be declamatory, a bit mardy.  I told Georgie M’Glug, a columnist from The Independent, priests were with us earlier, threatening to erect a cathedral outside the Info Tent in retaliation.  ¶  So far, the purest legal term is nigger.  Do you find that?  If Marx had been a Blues-singing moggie things might have been different.  ¶  ¶  In other respects this year has passed peaceably.  There’s been a visible increase of worldly circumstances.  10 Ross Road – when you get this gonny shank up ichRay like osencrantzRay.  Love to Frances.  Peace xxx. “They will feel the full force force of our own liquid cock in our mouth.”

Any pig’s face contains many fascinating portals, including the ones opening on the future, a small comfort after being forced to consider that the semi-on glimpsed gliding petal-like through the Maggie Thatcher death parties may have been partly a figment of our imagination after all. Thank goodness it wasn’t. But that isn’t IT, that isn’t why we must remind ourselves of the prime minister defiling the pork.

And it isn’t some avant-garde misogynist strategy, even if it IS the boys who bang on the loudest about it, and thank goodness it is they who do, but it isn’t a masterful shuffle along an imaginary spectrum between sex and rape which scrumples that non-spectrum into a non-non-spectrum with a pair of termini compounded in a point customarily expressed as “pigmouth, pigmouth”. 

And it isn’t even that Cameron is the most porcine prime minister in living memory and that, hidden in the act, for instance if you take out all the sex, and most of the police, is an important image of the compactification of Cameron’s corpulence, as if the mouth were HIS mouth, there is, that is, an innocent image of a right-sized Cameron, as if the colossus Cameron could be scraped out of his murder and torture and suicide and poverty, and folded up small once again, returned into his trim twenty-something body, and then it turned in on itself to about the volume of a toddler, and his offices de-extruded and contorted into their own orifices, and his collusion and influence contorted into a piggy glob of self-sufficiency that needn’t outwardly gobble and snuffle, but could hover there like a heart that is only the heart of a heart.

And it isn’t even that doing it to a dead pig is, as bizarre rituals go, actually probably the nicest thing Cameron has ever done, much nicer than burning a wad of cash in front of a beggar, which perhaps he did do too, or would have done, to be a member of the Bullingdon Club, and it isn’t even that it is the pinnacle of Cameron’s decency, which perhaps it is, being a little self-effacing act, in context, in the context of those rich boys and their hog roast, a harmlessly transgressive gesture, and perhaps bold and silly and uncalculating thing to do, and one of the few gestures which really says, I don’t want to be prime minister one day, I don’t want to be me up there killing everyone, coaxing everyone to kill themselves, I want my friends to think of me as the one who did something disgusting with the hog roast instead, and for all I know it will be the nicest thing I have ever done, and will reflect quite well on me actually, even though it is admittedly quite grotesque from another angle.

All it is is, well. It’s just that it is known how bad Cameron is. It’s just that it’s a metaphor, and for reasons which are not really the prime minister’s fault, dead-pig-fucking has strong negative connotations.

And then there’s Middle England, and we know they agree with us on those negative connotations, we know they don’t actually approve of doing that with a pig, so we have to bang on about it in particular ways to discriminate our ideas of ourselves from our ideas of Middle England, gory detail by gory detail to artificially pry apart our allegory from theirs.