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U3A Current Affairs Discussion Group 10 June 2024

Below is a list of the subjects for discussion on Monday 10th June.

2024 General Election.  Nineteen days in – how’s it going?

 Week 1  3/6Week 2 10/6Week 3 17/6Week 4 24/6Week 5 1/7
How many voting21    
Cons, Governing majority0    
Cons Largest Party0    
Lab Governing Majority13 (61%)    
Lab Largest party8 (38%)    
Will the SNP Do Well?0    
Will Reform get an MPs?0-11(52%)
1-8(38%)
    
Will Nigel Farage get elected?    
Green Party, how many MPs0-5(23%)
1-14(66%)
2-1(4%)
    
We are keeping a tally of what we expect the of the outcome of the election.
  1. The Election

Analysis: Where the Salford scrap leaves Starmer and Sunak

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmjjzxg7k6no

Nigel Farage to stand for Reform UK in general election U-turn

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/03/nigel-farage-to-stand-for-reform-uk-in-general-election-after-u-turn

Tories pledge to tackle 'confusion' over legal definition of sex

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkvkkejgno

Lib Dems pledge free personal care for adults

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmmww3ne8wo

Lib Dems would extend free school meals to all primary schoolchildren, says Ed Davey

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/31/lib-dems-extend-free-school-meals-ed-davey-election-campaign


Talking Points

The election debate. The lie – how badly will it backfire on Sunak.

Will the conservative false claim about labour taxes blow back on them reducing their credibility.

Nigel Farage joins the fray. Will the milkshake help or hinder his campaign

Labour on Defence

Conservative on Gender

Uk Labour law Labour

Labour would use nuclear weapons.

Sunak leaving D-Day event early.

  • 2. D-Day 80th Anniversary

Gave us freedom' - Veterans celebrated in Normandy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7228rq2nelo

D-day 80th anniversary comes at time of conflict and growing carelessness

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/06/d-day-80th-anniversary-conflict-carelessness

  • 3. Infected Blood scandal

Andy Burnam wants charges of corporate manslaughter 'An abuse by people supposedly there to care'.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgxx8yz150ko

Another state failure – will things ever change? ‘Who do you trust to keep you safe?’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1997z82gdro

  • 4. Things Can Only Get Better group ban Labour from using song

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/01/things-can-only-get-better-group-ban-labour-from-using-song

This song has entered the cultural norm, everyone knows it and knows its first use, the group have surely lost it to the public can they really claim it back? It was released in 1993.

  • 5. A Sikh court is being established in London.

The world is getting its first Sikh court in London. That’s a threat to women’s rights

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/31/the-world-is-getting-its-first-sikh-court-in-london-but-this-is-why-we-need-to-pay-close-attention-to-it

  • 6. Venice wants to ban large groups of Tourists.

Venice bans large tourist groups and loudspeakers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyjjy78n9zno

  • 7. Indian Election and South African election.

India’s opposition looked down and out – now they’re back

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp00jze920eo

  • 8. Welsh first minister loses confidence vote – refuses to resign.

FM won't quit after losing vote of no confidence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1vvqq1pp12o