On 13 September we’ll learn the outcome of the campaign that was never meant to win. Whether or not Jeremy Corbyn is elected UK Labour’s Leader, Chris Trotter will ask what his ambition & his supporters’ hopes have unleashed and how might it shift the public in general and social democracy in particular.
This Salon will interest those inside the NZ left & those who watch it for trouble!
Chris Trotter’s New Zealand political history book, No Left Turn, was not about the left or the right but their coexistence and confrontation over more than a century. Chris is a blogger, columnist and student of history – a fine speaker & curator of New Zealand’s political culture.
$30 including dinner – with seafood, meat and vegetarian options.
Doors and bar open from 5. Come early for drinks and snacks, dinner served from approx 6.30 pm followed by Chris Trotter’s talk (approx 7.30). We’ll be open for snacks, drinks, dessert and conversation from 5 pm into the evening (snacks, dessert & drinks extra).
The Ika Salon is a chance to share food and conversation with others. We welcome single, double or larger bookings & will develop a seating plan with a great night in mind for you.
This is one comment I found while reading about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership bid – sounds very familiar to what’s going on at home, so thought I would share:
The reason why Corbyn is receiving such voter interest (and political / msm interest) is that he has a credible mandate. I’m not interested in his socialist policies – but he’s pressed the anti-austerity, anti corporatist button – and it is quite right that he should do so. The other candidates are corporatist stooges, just like Cameron.
It is quite clear that ‘austerity’ has utterly failed for normal people, though it has been a great success for the top 1%. Growth has been zero, for 8 years. I’m only 57, but I have never known such a long term (and effective) recession… I’ve seen and suffered from, a few others, but this one appears to grind on regardless.
Varoufakis, Lamont, the SNP, Podema and progressively all normal Europeans are sick of it, whilst Osborne (representative of the huge corporatists) are not.
That is the only reason why a complete unknown is growing in popularity… The people are fed up with bloated big government, twinned with bloated big business, to make us all serfs. I speak as an SME owner – whose turnover is still half what it was in 2008 and whose wage roll is a third of what it was, many years ago. I want to see British politicians representing us – and, right now, I see no evidence to suggest they are doing anything other than representing the big fat bloated ones. And then, of course, there is the EU…. A shining example of bloated government and corporatist bedfellows. When will a Briton represent its peoples, rather than this Westminster aberration?
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