Denis Buckley

Rarely have we ever marched into the unknown so ill-equipped to manage the consequences There has been something strange taking place on Sky News over the last day or so. A succession of retired former generals and security chiefs, including a British former deputy chief of NATO and the ...

'These are serious talking heads with a massive amount of experience between them, all of whom appear to be scared witless by what is going on, the consequences of which they are obviously finding hard to imagine or embrace.'

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Starmer’s police state in action - targeting charitable religious groups.

Reform don't dislike regulations which benefit the Rentier Class - low taxes on Capital Gains and financial services, low inheritance taxes, low taxes on income from shares, rents, etc. The love those sorts of rules!

📝OUT NOW

In 2029, Reform UK could win on under 30% of the vote according to some polls. Our new research paper shows our voting system has a hand in this.

Read more & find out why electoral reform is not a nice-to-have, but an emergency.

#ukpolitics #PR #FPTP #VotingSystem

A lady named Kristi once said,
The only good dog is one dead.
She shared her advice,
With her underlings ICE,
So they shot moms and dads in the head.
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We're the last 'democracy' in Western Europe to use this ridiculous voting system. I live in a constituency which consistently elects a Tory, even though our most local representatives are Greens.

The tories are maggots!

Sums up the Tories in Parliament.

Globalisation is under threat from Iran war – and Britain is uniquely vulnerable The economic ripples from the Iran war will soon become waves, engulfing everything from energy prices to food supplies

'... a visible environmental crisis in the countryside is linked to a silent food-price crisis in cities, and both are left exposed to geopolitical shocks. The politics that can tie both sides of this equation together are the politics of the future.'

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Political economy at Cambridge – from the live event Today's video is a little unusual. It is my opening presentation from Saturday's live event in Cambridge. It is the longest video we have ever put out. Support notes are here. These will help, I sus...

A genuinely enlightening and inspiring video...

Political economy at Cambridge – from the live event www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...

... They are NOT honest, they are not rational. They are LIARS. They are CHANCERS. They are FASCISTS and WARMONGERS.

I am totally fed up with TV news. Even the best of our terrestrial channels - Channel 4 - spends several minutes at a time discussing Iran with the Fascist war mongers of the USA and Israel as though they were honest, rational people.

4. Rough edges? Like loads of ex-Tories and lots of racists.
5. This racial lines voting is just bollocks. Sorry, but when your party is full of racists and hates ethnic minorities, why on earth would we vote for you? Perhaps look at your own party rather than these ludicrous claims about voters.

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

British Your Party MP Zarah Sultana shows us the Human cost of the US/Israeli Imperialist War on Iran:

Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street

Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran - John Crace

At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street

I missed PMQs today and I'm so glad I did.

Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reminder that Starmer - during his bid for the Labour Party leadership - said that HE would introduce exactly this legislation.

Just one of many porkies he told on his way to becoming the least popular 🇬🇧 PM since polling on that question began. Possibly also the biggest liar of the lot.

... In the 2024 general election, with just 34% of the vote Labour Party secured 411 of the 650 House of Commons seats.'

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

'People could change their voting patterns but that cannot produce a representative government. Under the First-Past-the-Post system (FPTP) governments are elected by a minority of the electorate.
...

leftfootforward.org/2026/03/how-...

Nothing to see here: Ex-Amazon exec to lead markets watchdog Experts described the decision to appoint Doug Gurr as the head of the CMA as “very positive” if you are Big Tech

'... a move that is “very positive” if you’re Big Tech, Fiona Scott Morton, an economics professor at the Yale School of Management, told openDemocracy – and less so “if you’re everybody else”.'

www.opendemocracy.net/en/cma-chair...

... the Brexit vote and now the level of support we are seeing for the right-wing populists in Reform.'

Lifting the Lid on Britain's Pressure Cooker Politics: How Inequality and Neoliberal Capture Broke First Past the Post - Compass This new paper makes a direct link between the levels of inequality seen in Britain today and our first-past-the-post voting system.

'Lifting the Lid draws together Margaret Thatcher’s accentuated Parliamentary majorities in the 1980s, neoliberalism’s direct part in creating this country’s extensive regional inequalities, ...

www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...

Utterly disgraceful behaviour from our ultra-right wing 'Labour' government, as usual.

With her spring statement, Rachel Reeves showed she’s living in a parallel universe The beleaguered chancellor is not just living on an other planet but in an alternative reality, says Chris Blackhurst, one in which the war in Iran is clearly something to be reduced to a footnote

With her spring Budget statement, Rachel Reeves showed she is living in a parallel universe | Chris Blackhurst www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

Haahaahaa! The grifters are such sore losers! Matt Badloser chief among them, but Niggle Frottage a close second!

Nigel Farage calls for new restrictions on voting after by-election loss Reform UK leader claims the party won the election ‘among British-born voters’

www.ft.com/content/743d... Nigel Farage calls for new restrictions on voting after by-election loss

This is part of the action that right wing lunatics in the UK want the UK government to join in.
Why isn't this all over the mainstream news?

The Greens aren’t ‘extreme’, prime minister: they’re just behaving like Labour should. By Sangita Myska. Pictured: Hannah Spencer with Zack Polanski after winning the Gorton and Denton byelection last week. Photo: Paul Ellis / Getty

If Starmer hopes to prevent a repeat defeat, he must stop trying to out-Reform Reform and stop peddling falsehoods about the Greens, writes @sangitamyska.bsky.social

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