Kate Smurthwaite | This House Believes The Free Market is the Enemy of Freedom and Democracy

Kate Smurthwaite speaks as Third Proposition for the motion on 11th May 2023 at 8:00 in the Debating Chamber. Kate Smuthwaite is a left-wing comedian and political activist. She performs stand up comedy around the UK and is currently touring her 16th one-woman show, Humanity's Last Hope. She has written for TV shows including the Bafta-Award winning The Revolution will be Televised and appeared as a panellist on Question Time, BBC News and Sky News. Her campaign work has included almost a decade as spokesperson for Abortion Rights UK and working with female asylum seckers. ............................................................................................................................ Thumbnail Photographer: Reva Croft ............................................................................................................................ Some argue that in a world of growing inequality, where eight men own as much wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion people and transnational corporations can threaten to move capital fluidly across borders, that freedom is made a nonsense and democracy is eroded. Others characterise the free market as responsible for unprecedented global and British prosperity, arguing this economic model goes organically hand-in-hand with representative democracy. Liz Truss's premiership in particular has recently reignited a discussion about the role of the free market as an ideological construct. ............................................................................................................................ SUBSCRIBE for more speakers:    / @cambridgeunionsoc1815   ............................................................................................................................ Connect with us on: Facebook:   / thecambridgeunion   Instagram:   / cambridgeunion   Twitter:   / cambridgeunion   LinkedIn:   / cambridge-union-society