Students at the newly created Adam Smith College in Fife, Scotland, where you’ll find the Institute of Hair and Beauty, have voted to strip Smith’s name from the students’ association and replace it with that of… a socialist.

In an episode some would say is reminiscent of loony-leftism at its glorious worst, the college’s students’ association has decided Smith represents what they regard as the world’s greatest evils — namely, exploitation, greed, Thatcherism and Reaganite economics.

Consequently, students at the Kirkcaldy college have refused to name their association after Smith and plumped instead for the more “right-on” Jennie Lee, the Lochgelly-born socialist, first female Labour MP and wife of Nye Bevan.

The newly named Jennie Lee College Students’ Association is even refusing to use Smith’s name anywhere in its correspondence.

Today’s story from the Scotsman here. More on Jennie Lee here. The University of Glasgow took Smith’s name off one of its buildings five years ago — but only for a day.

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