A reminder - Drinking Liberally is on in Auckland tonight with Laila Harre as the speaker. These are always fun to listen to the speaker and you get to do some networking.
WHAT: Drinking Liberally Auckland City
WHO: You and any of your left-leaning companeros
WHEN: 7.30pm, Wednesday 27th August
WHERE: London Bar, cnr Wellesley & Queen Sts (opposite Civic). The entrance to the bar is around on Wellesley St, you need to go up the stairs and we will probably be congregating at the far end by the stage, fiddling with the sounds.
WITH: Laila Harre - prominent union leader, well-known leftie and feminist, bane of Matthew Hooton’s Mondays, and former Cabinet Minister in the early days of the current Labour-led government.
COST: Free, just need to keep yourself fed and watered.
Remember that Drinking Liberally Auckland is having its inaugural session tomorrow with David Slack.
Note it in your schedules and tell your left-leaning and green friends where the action is. In fact phone a techno-phobe friend now!
WHAT Drinking Liberally Auckland
WHEN 7:30pm, Wed 2 July
WHERE London Bar, corner Queen and Wellesley Streets, Auckland City.
SPEAKER David Slack on ‘New Zealand the way you want it’
The time is a bit of a pain for people who are already in the Auckland City centre. But it allows time to avoid the traffic jams or use the public transport, and arrive at the Auckland City centre at about the same time. It is definitely not the Wellington village. Being able to assemble at 5:30 is impossible in the sprawl.
It should be an enjoyable experience and maybe allow people to put a few names to faces. Personally I have a little list of people with whom I communicate with all of the time, but never see in the meat.
I’m going to be interested in what David Slack makes of his topic. There are so many things I want…
Lynn
You’re invited to the first Auckland Drinking Liberally event - 7.30pm next Wednesday night (2 July) at the London Bar with special guest speaker David Slack.
Drinking Liberally brings together people from across the left-leaning wing of the political spectrum for discussion, debate and, well, drinking.
The first Auckland event will take place from 7.30pm Wednesday 2 July in the London Bar, corner Queen and Wellesley Streets, Auckland City. Probably park at the leaky Aotea Square Civic carpark.
Further events will take place on the fourth Wednesday of every month. The next one will be on the 23rd of July depending on the availability of a speaker.
Well known blogger/author/radio commentator/all-round-nice-guy David Slack will be our first speaker. David says he’ll be talking about ‘New Zealand the way you want it’.
For more information visit www.drinkingliberally.org or join the ‘Drinking Liberally NZ‘ Facebook group.
Looks like Auckland is finally catching up with Wellington. Left-leaning Aucklanders should be able to show their social traits are at least as good as the capital village.
Lynn
Try Joe Hendrens take Drinking Liberally Auckland and Auckervegas. I particularly liked the changes to my graphic. They really need to get one going there in Christchurch as well - too serious 
There was a new Roy Morgan poll out on Friday. No major changes - Labour continues to hover around the mid-30s and National around 50. The minor parties are still all over the place and New Zealand First remains a wildcard.
Interestingly Roy Morgan also reported results for Auckland vs the rest of the country this time. In Auckland the gap between the two major parties is 19 points compared to 11.5 for the rest of the country. However given the lower sample size these figures should be treated with caution.
