Manifesto Analyses for Heritage & Culture in the UK General Election – WB 2nd July 2024

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0:00 Introduction

0:57 Conservatives & Reform

3:57 Labour

6:19 Liberal Democrats

7:39 Greens

8:45 Plaid Cymru

9:32 SNP

9:49 Northern Ireland

10:48 The End of 14 Years of Tories?

17:35 Reporting vs Opinion

18:22 Planning Policy… AGAIN!

25:55 UK Archaeology is MiA… AGAIN!

46:22 Two Benchmark Tests Coming Soon

49:58 REFORM’s Patriotic ‘Balanced’ Curriculum

54:04 Our Election Night plans…

59:21 We NEED Archaeology for What Comes Next!

1:01:56 The PipeLine’s Endorsement

1:05:15 Conclusion

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Link of the Week:

Get Voting.org:

www.getvoting.org

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Links:

Conservative and Unionist Party Manifesto 2024:

https://public.conservatives.com/stat...

Reform UK Manifesto 2024:

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/refo...

Labour Party Manifesto 2024:

https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uplo...

Liberal Democrats Manifesto 2024:

https://www.libdems.org.uk/fileadmin/...

Green Party Manifesto 2024:

https://greenparty.org.uk/app/uploads...

Plaid Cymru (The Party of Wales) Manifesto 2024:

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/plai...

SNP (Scottish National Party) Manifesto 2024:

https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/ww...

Northern Ireland Manifesto Analysis:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c...

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Comedian John Oliver calls for UK to ‘wash away Tories’ at general election as he mocks Sunak’s rainy speech:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x90...

CPRE – The Countryside Charity Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats manifesto analyses:

https://www.cpre.org.uk/explainer/

On the Brink: Heritage in the Cost of Living Crisis:

https://www.theheritagealliance.org.u...

Government decision on Stonehenge back in Court:

https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/wp-...

UNESCO raises the stakes over Stonehenge:

https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/une...

46th session of the World Heritage Committee:

https://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/46...