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Denis Buckley
@wellingtonrock.bsky.social
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UK/US dual national. Haven't been to US in ten years. Family there are Trumpies, family here are sane. I'm an old man, but still learning - eg, a new 'lick' for Cripple Creek. Did I mention that in retirement, I've become an enthusiastic muso. And Green.
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 5m
Don't tell me our neoliberal Auntie Rachel is awakening to the realities around her!
Now, if the Red Tories actually begin to develop more programmes for Working Class folk instead of putting the City first...
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 7m
'The most capable, imaginative ... people no longer see politics as a home. They are building movements outside the parties because that is where ideas still matter and reality still counts.

They have not abandoned politics. Politics has abandoned them.'

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Why are both the UK’s major political parties running out of talent?
People know that the politicians they are now being presented with, most especially by Labour and the Tories, are, by and large, useless, without an iota of talent for the tasks they take on in the ab...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 9h
One of Evolution's failures.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 9h
Lest we forget...

Thérèse Coffey claimed £201,278.38 in expenses between 2019 and 2020, according to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, while she campaigned to remove the £20 per week uplift to universal credit.' (Sep 2019)

#newsnight
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Thérèse Coffey claimed £200,000 on expenses while cutting your benefits
The work and pensions secretary suggested that those set to lose out from the UC cut should work more hours.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
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Diana @ditotts.bsky.social · 9h
Never forget how the Tories lined their own pockets & those of their mates.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 9h
Lest we forget...

Thérèse Coffey claimed £201,278.38 in expenses between 2019 and 2020, according to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, while she campaigned to remove the £20 per week uplift to universal credit.' (Sep 2019)

#newsnight
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Thérèse Coffey claimed £200,000 on expenses while cutting your benefits
The work and pensions secretary suggested that those set to lose out from the UC cut should work more hours.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 9h
If you're enough of an Economy nerd, you may find this >Quite Interesting< ...

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
It's Giving Enron
On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash
open.substack.com
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 16h
Haahaahaa! Haahaahaa! Haahaahaa!
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 1d
Why we & @justtreatment.org delivered a massive cheque and 250,000 signatures to the UK government…
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Amanda @iwishididnaekerr.bsky.social · 20h
Melanie Ward on politics live should stop pulling faces and lying and actually start facing facts labour are shite and blaming tories and snp is old and tired. Get yer fingers oot. Yous could have made a difference. Yous didn't. Yous would rather jump on asylum seekers and play to reform voters
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Sue @grumpygrandma.bsky.social · 20h
Am a bit confused. If you threaten to burn down hotels full of immigrants you get a far smaller sentence than threatening to kill Nigel Farage. In first instance you get made an example of “ two tier justice “ and serious victimhood. In the second there will be those wanting the death penalty.
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Alice Cadence Larissa Marissa Beth Beresford @alicelbronte.bsky.social · 20h
Zarah Sultana has pointed out a political difference between Your Party and The Greens. She said a Your Party Government would take Britain out of NATO.
I'm glad I chose to join The Green Party, who don't have such a dangerous plan. We need to stand strong against Russia! 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 20h
📢 We're in the #Green Party but we encourage people to join #YourParty 🔽 if you feel a bit more "red than green" in your politics - the important thing is that both parties do well and that they cooperate as far as possible to maximise the left vote in the UK whenever and wherever possible. 🤝
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Your Party @thisisyourparty.bsky.social · 20d
🚨MEMBERSHIP NOW OPEN!🚨

This is Your Party - it's time to take it into your hands.

Join as a member now ⬇️⬇️
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Wullie @wullieforindy.bsky.social · 20h
Keir Starmer stole Jeremy Corbyn’s clothes and now he’s dressing up as Nigel Farage
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20h
“This Labour government would have banned the labour movement.”

Excellent column by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the striking illiberalism of the Starmer government.
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 1d
The moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 1d
The UK must stand up for human rights and reject calls to leave the ECHR - Sign the open letter

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...
Open Letter: Keep the UK in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's open letter now if you agree that the UK must remain in the ECHR.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 1d
Well, not >just< me.
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 1d
Absolutely!
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 1d
Neoliberalism has kicked away the foundations of an empathic society and left us all as isolated 'consumers' instead of committed Citizens.
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 1d
The UK must stand up for human rights and reject calls to leave the ECHR - Sign the open letter

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...
Open Letter: Keep the UK in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's open letter now if you agree that the UK must remain in the ECHR.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 1d
Wow! Damned to death with faint praise. I still can't believe that I paid £25 to vote for him to be leader of the LP. (I'm not a member, but thought it important). He has extended Tony B-Liar's decapitation of the LP - abandoning it for Mrs Thatcher's <spits> neoliberal economic dogma. Disgraceful.
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 1d
Where we are today, why we're here today. Can we do anything about it? Hmm ...
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𝓜𝔂𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓪 𝓡𝓸𝓼𝓮 @mysticsrose.bsky.social · 1d
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Nolan Jazimreg @nolanjazimreg.bsky.social · 1d
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d
Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'.

Brexit is the biggest self-harm. UK economy hasn't recovered.

Farage, the part-time MP, collects millions from 2nd/3rd jobs, full time MP pay+exps; often missing from the Commons.

Pushes hatred to grab power.
'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'
No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire
www.mirror.co.uk
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 1d
Watch out you white folks in America today!
link is to graphic from La Cucuracha comic strip - depicts a Native American wearing a facemask and getting ready to deport >the invaders<.

www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/...
La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for October 13, 2025 | GoComics
Read La Cucaracha—a comic strip by creator Lalo Alcaraz—for today, October 13, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
www.gocomics.com
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Denis Buckley @wellingtonrock.bsky.social · 2d
An early voice warning of the dangers of unregulated neoliberal Capitalism.
'A financial system built on leverage and speculation will always return to instability precisely because its stability depends on forgetting.'

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Economic questions: the Hyman Minsky question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been, and what the relevance of that question might be ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
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