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The Cambridge University Students’ Union has come under fire after it claimed that having military personnel in attendance at the freshers’ fair would be “alarming” for those there and could even “detrimentally affect” their mental health. Students at prestigious university had voted to ban any societies from bringing firearms to the fair after welfare and rights officer Stella Swain bizarrely claimed that some people may find them “triggering”.

In a motion, a statement read that firearms and even military personnel at the fairs shows an “implicit approval of their use, despite the links between military and firearms and violence on an international scale”. Ms Swain had suggest that CUSU had traditionally committed itself towards efforts to “demilitarise” the university. And this means that the freshers’ fair should be no place for “military organisations to recruit”.

Ms Swain had suggest that CUSU had traditionally committed itself towards efforts to “demilitarise”

The university's student union has come under fire.

The motion continued: “The presence of firearms and military personnel at freshers’ fair is alarming and off-putting for some students, and has the potential to detrimentally affect students’ mental welfare.” Online, some people were quick to ridicule the motion. One said: “It's going to end up with Cambridge graduates only being employable as diversity coordinators in bubble jobs, or in jobs where they're hidden away in back rooms dealing with abstract data and don't have to deal with anything real.” READ MORE: Milton Keynes school on lockdown: Student goes on stabbing attack

Online, some people were quick to ridicule the motion.

Another said: “Beneath contempt. Arrogant children luxuriating in the freedom that for generations our armed forces have bought and protected with their lives.” Former commander of the British Forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, also blasted the motion. He dubbed it: “Pathetic, to say the very least." He told the Telegraph: “I would suggest this is nothing to do with the military as such. “It is just yet another effort, as we have seen in so many of these student motions at various universities, to undermine British society. JUST IN:

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Former commander of the British Forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, also blasted the motion

He said to the Telegraph: “I would suggest this is nothing to do with the military as such.

“Without the Armed Forces these students wouldn’t be able to study, they are only able to because the country has been protected and defended by the British Army. “Many students from Cambridge University fought and died in the Armed Forces and for our country. “Students should have more respect for those who went before them, who made the ultimate sacrifice to allow them to study in freedom.” Meanwhile mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterboroug James Palmer stated that the motion was “ridiculous”. He said via the Telegraph: “This kind of attitude is quite bizarre to normal working people who have no understanding of how you can behave in this way.”

“I look at some of the things put through and I really just think they are so far removed from the lives of the people I represent. “The point is that they are forcing their views on other people and the lack of tolerance among the supposedly tolerant.” Some Cambridge University societies include the Cambridge University Officer Training Corps (CUOTC), the Cambridge University Royal Naval Unit - and the Cambridge University Air Squadron. These three societies are granted some type of funding from the Ministry of Defence. Ben Hodgkinson-Toay, an engineering finalist at Cambridge and platoon commander at CUOTC, raged at the motion, too.

Meanwhile mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterboroug James Palmer stated that the motion was “ridiculou

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