Tory-hating girl behind University protests has launched 'culture commission' to 'deconstruct toxicity' on campus

Tory-hating girl behind University protests has launched 'culture commission' to 'deconstruct toxicity' on campus
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Luke Ridley

By Luke Ridley


Published: 08/12/2021

- 10:43

Updated: 08/12/2021

- 10:44

A left-wing Durham University student leader described Jeremy Corbyn as 'the white king' and suggested Conservatives should be 'dealt with' in a private Instagram post.

Seun Twins a left-wing Durham University student leader who was behind a campaign to oust Professor Tim Luckhurst has described Jeremy Corbyn as 'the white king' and suggested Conservatives should be 'dealt with' in a private Instagram post.

Twins has said the Durham University's union objective should be 'unravelling the unfair power dynamics which permeate into a culture of privilege'. She also launched a 'culture commission' to 'explore and locate and ultimately deconstruct toxicity at Durham'.


After she was elected, Miss Twins called for Tories to be 'dealt with' by 'roadmen' in a leaked post from her private Instagram account.

In response to the post Twins wrote: "I don't condone violence in the slightest, but sometimes when you are in the presence of such grotesque entitlement, do you ever just want to say 'We need to take these tories to South London and let roadmen deal with them' but you realise that you have to be the palatable and charismatic black girl since you are going to be their president for the next year and you must to smile and wave."

Later she insisted her instagram post was only created in response to a specific incident of bullying and was an expression of the way she felt she had to present herself 'because of racism and sexism'.

Currently in her second year as Durham Students' Union president, Miss Twins has made no secret of where her political affiliations lie.

She has previously hailed former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as 'the white king'.

Miss Twins, a former head girl at Camden School for Girls, a comprehensive in North London, became student union president after taking senior roles in the Durham People Of Colour Association and the Intersectional Feminism Society.

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