A Pubic Protest

 A Pubic Protest

Don't send your daughter to Cambridge

If you get my drift,

lest  she  learn to  protest in their language

and remove her shift.

Though we must admire the Brits for maintaining  decorum

and elegant style 

and their ability to then proceed even  in  a pubic forum

with neither frown nor smile. 

HzL

7/1/16

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'Brexit leaves Britain naked': Cambridge academic stages nude protest against outcome of EU referendum

A Cambridge academic has protested against Brexit by showing up naked at her faculty's meeting

•  Javier Espinoza, education editor 

1 JULY 2016 • 4:18PM

ACambridge academic walked in naked at a meeting at the Faculty of Economics in protest against the results of the EU referendum.

Victoria Bateman had written on her breasts and stomach ‘Brexit leaves Britain naked’.

The academic arrived at the faculty’s meeting last Wednesday where director of studies across all the university’s colleges as around 30 economists discussed teaching material and courses.

Victoria Bateman wrote an anti-Brexit message across her bodyCREDIT: JAMES BATEMAN

Ms Bateman, a lecturer has researched the development of the European economy, sat at the two-hour meeting without anyone mentioning her nudity they just went on with a normal meeting about tripos and marking.

Nigel Knight, director of studies at Churchill College and the chair of the meeting, glanced at her and then said to his secretary: “I think we need some cups for the coffee” and everyone else just stared straight ahead.

His remarks, however, are understood to have taken place before the meeting started.

Ms Bateman, who is an economics fellow at Gonville and Caius College, posed naked for a nude portrait of her by the painter Anthony Connolly last year.

Victoria Bateman posed for a naked portrait by Anthony Connolly last year CREDIT: JAMES BATEMAN

A source who took part in the meeting told the Daily Telegraph: “It is well known to the faculty that she has posed naked but obviously the behaviour here was different. One thing is to pose naked and another to show up naked.

“This was a standard meeting about the teaching of economics and we moved away from her state of dress. We remained silent on that issue and....