Pre-election Event Audience Q&A: "Ukraine must win" - 28th June at Ukrainian Cultural Centre, London

Ukraine Must Win: pre-election panel event - Audience Q&A - with the participation of:
- Edward Lucas
- Paul Mason
- Macer Gifford
and moderated by Jonathan Fink (Silicon Curtain)
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Organiser: SupportUkraine.UK (Instagram @supportukraine.uk).
Thanks to the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) London Branch for hosting the event.
All funds raised from this event will be directed to help frontline medics in Ukraine.
Date: Friday, June 28 · 7 - 9pm (GMT+1)
Host: Ukrainian Cultural Centre, AUGB London
Location: 154 Holland Park Avenue London W11 4UH
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If
the West provides Ukraine with support to win the war, this victory
will secure peace not only for Ukraine but for the whole of Europe. A
pre-election discussion with representatives from three main political
parties. Support Ukraine looks forward to a night of captivating
conversation about what’s needed for a Ukrainian victory. The panel will
be quizzed by the host of the Silicon Curtain podcast Jonathan Fink.
He’ll be joined by Edward Lucas, Paul Mason and Macer Gifford.
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Welcome
to the pre-election debate. The election outcome may seem to be broadly
predictable, but what will Day one for the new UK government look like?
How prominent will Ukraine be in the priority list of a new cabinet?
Will there be a continuation of foreign policy, and will it be aligned
behind a Ukrainian victory – not simply the vaguely worded and
non-committal phrase “as long as it takes”. The devil will be on the
detail, ranging from issue such as rearming Britain for a dangerous
world to our commitment to international law and cracking down on the
laundering of oligarch money and finding our place in a fracturing
global economy. But tonight, we will be discussing whether the war in
Ukraine, which was initiated by Russia, should be at the top of the
list. The longer it drags on, the higher the cost for Ukraine in human
and economic terms, and the more malign and toxic Russia seem to be
becoming. Despite Escalation management, prolonging the war seems to be
compounding risks of a wider conflagration, rather than mitigating risk.
We desperately need leadership to resolve the war, and align around a
Ukrainian victory, but will we get it through the result of this
election?
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Edward Lucas was one of the first
journalists to raise the alarm about Putin’s actions and motivations.
While most of the world still thought of Putin as ‘someone we could do
business with’, Edward published a prescient and insightful book in 2008
called “The New Cold War – Putin’s threat to Russia and the West”.
Edward Lucas is now a full-time Liberal Democrat is a Prospective
candidate for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency, on a
platform that includes defending democracy against dirty money and
corruption.
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Paul Mason is a British commentator
and radio personality. He was Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4
News, becoming the programme's Economics Editor in 2014. He is the
author of several books, and a visiting professor at the University of
Wolverhampton. Allegedly Mason was a member of the Workers' Power group,
as a Leftie activist, but he now explains that “What his politics are
is very complicated.” Mason was considered as a candidate by the Labour
Party to run in the constituency of Islington North at this election but
was not selected for the final shortlist.
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Macer
Gifford is a British veteran of the Ukrainian Army – who is well known
to members of NAFO (North Atlantic Fellas Organization), and those who
follow the Ukraine war in detail. As he says on his Twitter profile, he
is channelling the spirit of George Orwell, and his dispatches from the
frontlines of the war in Ukraine have been highly engaging, informative,
eloquent, and full of humanity. Macer has an MSc in Security &
Diplomacy and has followed Conservative politics for many years.
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