Its still the case that Wes by and large sticks to ground that is seen as viable for the labour party.

He got elected openly as a Labour Student, what do people expect? Ultimately he thinks the best deal students are going to get is with a labour government and so he acts thinking his job is basically to convince the mainstream of labour to give students a better deal. I mean, I don't agree with this, but its not a suprise, and when both he, the VPHE candidate he supports, and the education policy he supports get voted through conference people need to at least not act somehow suprised that this is the NUS line.

Well, regardless of who wants to be nice to compass its something the NUS spends far too much time doing. They are if anything less influential than many other thinktanks, aren't *that* close to NUS policy and certainly don't make sense in terms of the "being pragmatic" line of the moment. Things like that are what really show the politicing of the leadership.