Natalie has been a brilliant women's officer and as you twats are so utterly low as to do something like this then I personally would like to nominate you for this fine position.

outraged,

why don't you consider the real victim in all of us this..oliver cromwell fought for what he believed in and was an excellent lord protector. I can't believe you royalist, anti-puritan bastards are trying to rewrite history and drag his name through the mud. Genocide? He only killed 50,000. get some perspective.

I would like to join outraged in nominating the tab as worst cantab for their attempted destruction of cromwell's great legacy.

Natalie is a hard working and wonderful women's officer -She also has a much better sense of humour than you lot do. Grow up.

No Rishi Bajeva?!?!?!

I'm pretty outraged, no, infuriated, that Nick Griffin is described as 'probably having semen breath'. Has anyone even come close to smelling Nick Griffin? No. This is just an abhorrent use of probability. There is, of course, non-zero chance that his mouth whiffs of ejaculate, but with modern technology in terms of dental hygiene in the 21st Century, I'd lay 20-1 that his mouth odour contains no trace of seminal fluids if you were to approach him and lean in for a smooch.

He does have a pretty funny eye though.

Although most people will find this act REALLY CREEPY.

By being a women she automatically is going to have a shit sense of humour

To whoever Outraged is, I'm sorry but her notes on the tab are bordering on the ridiculous and if the Tab thus wants to make a jab at her I think there well within their rights doing so. + its about time we got a men's officer, men have problems too, cancer, depression anorexia and annoyance with the world are not the sole preserve of women. Lets get rid of the 'weaker sex' epithet.

"probably has semen breath" is absolutely ridiculously homophobic, like the fortunately waning tendency to call something or someone you dislike "gay", as if "gay" denotes something to ridicule or detest. But you've gone a stage further and made it vulgar. Nick Griffin is an appalling person for his racist and homophobic views and actions – I don't see why this can't suffice as a reason for him being one of the worst Cantabrigians, without bringing in some emphatic homophobia of your own.

Don't forget that we are not allowed to hit a girl. What's that about?

Hi Natalie!

It doesn't have to involve homosexual acts Trish!

Do people's breath's that smell of shit eat poo for lunch? I don't think so.

I know someone who's breath smells of glue but they don't eat glue either.

'Probably has semen breath' is only homophobic if you consider fellatio the sole preserve of gay men.

Once again I must ask: What? No Rishi Bajeva?!?!

What is more, I am fairly sure that most homosexuals have as good personal hygeine as the next man (if not better, with all that preening and whatnot!)..

..so the way in which Nick Griffin's breath smells of jizz is patently not the crux of the matter, it is the fact that he is enough of a shit not to notice. I suppose his general odour masks it somewhat.

As you point out, his homophobic view are abhorrant, however, unfortunately Trish, it seems so is your lack of a sense of irony.

'a women'

statistically straight women are probably more likely to have semen breath than gay men, given that they still just about outnumber them (despite the population of this country nowadays being almost entirely consistent of gays and blacks). so the tab was actually sticking to previous editorial lines of misogyny and hatred of women rather than this cheap shot you're taking. we bloody love gays, they always have SUCH soft hands!

I resent people whose only imagery of ‘the North’ is somewhat reminiscent of a Monty Python/League of Gentlemen sketch.

In a similar way I resent those people who assume that people from Yorkshire are all illiterate racists.

I worry that the TAB, whilst being ‘tongue in cheek’ and obviously exceedingly banterous, does nothing to show the members of the general public, who are not in the Cambridge loop, that we have gone beyond our age old stereotype of being full of southern public school ponces.

http://cambridgetab.co.uk/features/society-spies-...

This article deals with the North/South divide. Also I write for the Tab and according to the diagram in the article live above the real dividing line between north and south. I also went to a state comp. I see what you mean about the Cambridge loop, but they are our primary audience not the general public.

The BNP picked up 10% of the vote in the Yorkshire and Humber region in the European Elections. So if you're a fucking idiot AND you live in yorkshire, there's probably a higher chance that you're a BNP voter than, say, fucking idiots in Cornwall, who probably vote for the Cornish National Liberation Army or just masturbate themselves with meat pastries. No slight was meant towards Yorkshiremen in general.

Oh dear – Tab takes it too far. No previous issue with the paper but this is really quite harsh on Szarek. Let's not forget – Natalie has not – in CUSU Women's Council or otherwise – been offensive about individuals who write for the Tab, although she may disagree with what is published. It might all be in the name of banter but this isn't really what our student newspapers ought to be about. Did the Tab just make itself guilty of the (oh sooo 'ironic') sexism it was previously (wrongly) accused of? Whoops…

swearing doesn't make your article more "tabloidy" or funny for that matter. weak.

when do they swear in tabloids??

it does however play a role in language and in this case the use of a single swear word to describe fascists seems appropriate. swearing is also pretty much the preserve of the Guardian in terms of mainstream papers. if the word 'fuck' is the most offensive thing you've seen on the internet today you're in need of a wank

Get a grip people, if you actually take the tab seroiusly enough to get worked up about you clearly need a sense of humour and some fun in your life. Go out and find yourself a good shagging or read a book or whatever you do to relax…

Who cares… it's the Tab. And obviously a personal vendetta. Get 'outraged' about something important.

So you're "ironically" patronizing Szarek in a sexist fashion, just because she doesn't like your website? Juvenile, much?

Keep it classy, Tab, keep it classy.

Probably best you don't read my Albums of the Year piece if it gets put up then……

The part on Natalie Szarek is reminiscent of something i've seen before.

Jimmy Carr…[youtube 5JHnMyiWNk4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JHnMyiWNk4 youtube]

What? When did she imply they were racist?

The difference being that Carr is not responding to a previous attack and is not parodying claims that he is sexist. Also I doubt the writer of the Szarek bit would claim it was good enough to appear on primetime BBC unlike Carr.

When has the Tab ever professed to be classy?

I'm very offended by your ill formed comment, I think you'll find nick griffin is the MEP for Lancashire not yorkshire, don't give the the steel workers the credit for our famlous choice of MEP

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Reading the utter drivel in the minutes from the Women's Council Minutes destroyed the minor sympathy I might have felt for Szarek. The constant 'wait until they do something really bad and then we'll get them' attitude about the Tab makes them look like idiots and undermines any good work they do. I think The Tab response is pretty fair.

Enoch Powell: 'Looks a bit like Josef Fritzl'

Sorry, how exactly is that a con?

got to love jimmy carr and hate the natalie girl, shes like the plague…

Some of the comments in reply to this light-hearted piece of journalism represent everything that is worst about Cambridge. A bunch of people who get outraged over the slightest thing and are too caught up in their self-involved attempts to take the higher moral ground to just have a laugh over a joke based parody of serious journalism. I'd venture that the majority of our generations' view that we are a load of poncy twats has far more to do with claiming to be outraged over "semen breath" than a passing jibe at Yorkshire.

Enoch Powell, cons: looks like Joseph Fritzl.

One of the funniest things I've read all day! Keep up the good work.

This is hilarious and you are wrong.

"Only 50,000"?

You ignorant twat.

I must apologise for my previous comment; I now see that the Cromwell remark was in jest.

It is early, I had just woken up.

like, if there was a like button

I swear 'The Tab' just tries and fails at ironic political incorrectness.

natalie szarek's campaign has also seen such highlights as ticking off college's for having a christmas bop poster with a woman dressed as santa with a skirt ending just above the knee. our response was, of course, to give santa himself a fully exposed six pack and abs.

Dear Miss Outraged,

I've just voted for Natalie, she definately deserved to be on there. However, had Germaine Greer been included, I'd have voted for her instead…
The most "utterly low" thing had to be that Stephen Hawking was omitted from the Varsity poll for Germaine 'fat bumbling feminist' Greer.
Take a leaf out of 'Sensible's' book. I mean here is a person who clearly feels above The Tab so much that she reads this article and comments on it.

Very nice site!

I think semen breath sometimes smells quite nice, actually. lol

Szarek has been the bane of my Cambridge existence with her insistence of equal rights and dignity. I came to Cambridge for elitism, not this pinko clap-trap!

[...] heckled and shouted down at regular intervals.   Winning the honour of being voted “the worst Cantab in history” by The Tab readers in November gave a clear indication of his standing in the [...]

Rather a biased list. Obviously assembled by lefty nuts picking on heroes such as Enoch. What gave it away was who was NOT on the list, Philby and crew. But, they were all lefties.

What about Kim Philby and some truly nasty people? Can't you historians try a little harder to get some seriously bad people on this list?