Right on kids!

According to this article in today's Courier, Adam Smith's name is unfit to grace the student association of his home town's college because

"He is associated with socio-economic policies that work against the people, that were synonymous with Thatcherite and Reaganite governments"

and

"Adam Smith’s name is linked to exploitation and greed.”

Dearie me, more burblings from someone who has clearly just finished the Ladybird Book of Trotskyism. The use of the words "associated" and "linked" are a bit revealing. Who made these links and associations? Can they be backed up? I doubt it.
Instead of Adam Smith, the student association is to be named after Jennie Lee, the daughter of a local miner who went on to become a socialist MP at the age of 24. You can almost hear the frantic glee as all the right boxes are ticked! Apparently she "inherited" her father's socialist outlook. No doubt this "inheritance" was passed down starting at an early age and consisted of a series of monologues & polemics, delivered as part of nightly diet. Fairy tales of a sort, but not those of the Brothers Grimm.
It's entirely up to the students what they call their association but the muddled thinking and justification in their selection seems rather childish. However the fact that Jennie Lee was only able to receive a university education by virtue of finiancial support from the Carnegie Trust made me smile. The irony of this seems to have escaped the attentions of our zealously socialist student body. Or maybe there wasn't room in the "Socialism for Dummies" book for an entry on Andrew Carnegie?
Incidentally, no prizes for anyone else who notices similarities in prose between the Courier reporter's prose and that of the Wikipedia entry for Jennie Lee.