Oxford Union President Ousted After Charlie Kirk Remarks. His Reaction Was Hilarious.

These people cannot get out of their own way. While not a story emanating from the United States, across the pond, our cousins in Britain ousted the president of the Oxford Union. Members voted in a no-confidence motion overwhelmingly to boot George Abaraonye after his atrocious remarks about Charlie Kirk following his assassination on September 10. Abaraonye brought the motion for a vote himself. When he lost, Abaraonye essentially claimed voter fraud—you cannot make this stuff up (via BBC):

The president-elect of the Oxford Union has lost a no-confidence vote after he was criticised for comments appearing to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk.

The motion against George Abaraonye had met the required two-thirds threshold to oust the student from his position, the society has announced. 

It comes after Mr Abaraonye reportedly posted on social media to seemingly welcome the attack on the US conservative activist in September. 

Mr Abaraonye is disputing the no-confidence vote, telling the BBC people campaigning to oust him had “unsupervised access” to the email account collecting proxy ballots. 

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According to the Telegraph, Mr Abaraonye posted a message on Instagram which read “Charlie Kirk got shot loool” – an elongated version of the phrase ‘lol’ which means ‘laughing out loud’. 

He is also said to have posted in a WhatsApp chat with fellow students appearing to welcome the incident. 

Last week, Mr Abaraonye said he had submitted the motion of no confidence in himself, with voting taking place over the weekend. 

A notice published by extraordinary returning officer Donovan Lock on Tuesday said 1,228 ballots were cast in favour of no confidence, while 501 were against. 

This forum was one of the top tiers and arenas for debate. It got reduced to this under Abaraonye. 

Goodbye, sir.

These people cannot get out of their own way. While not a story emanating from the United States, across the pond, our cousins in Britain ousted the president of the Oxford Union. Members voted in a no-confidence motion overwhelmingly to boot George Abaraonye after his atrocious remarks about Charlie Kirk following his assassination on September 10. Abaraonye brought the motion for a vote himself. When he lost, Abaraonye essentially claimed voter fraud—you cannot make this stuff up (via BBC):

The president-elect of the Oxford Union has lost a no-confidence vote after he was criticised for comments appearing to celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk.

The motion against George Abaraonye had met the required two-thirds threshold to oust the student from his position, the society has announced. 

It comes after Mr Abaraonye reportedly posted on social media to seemingly welcome the attack on the US conservative activist in September. 

Mr Abaraonye is disputing the no-confidence vote, telling the BBC people campaigning to oust him had “unsupervised access” to the email account collecting proxy ballots. 

[…] 

According to the Telegraph, Mr Abaraonye posted a message on Instagram which read “Charlie Kirk got shot loool” – an elongated version of the phrase ‘lol’ which means ‘laughing out loud’. 

He is also said to have posted in a WhatsApp chat with fellow students appearing to welcome the incident. 

Last week, Mr Abaraonye said he had submitted the motion of no confidence in himself, with voting taking place over the weekend. 

A notice published by extraordinary returning officer Donovan Lock on Tuesday said 1,228 ballots were cast in favour of no confidence, while 501 were against. 

This forum was one of the top tiers and arenas for debate. It got reduced to this under Abaraonye. 

Goodbye, sir.