Denis Buckley

wellingtonrock@mastodon.social

Y I K E S... It appears my profile has been copied by a user - hfdgsj648@mastodon.social. WHO ARE YOU? WHAT'S YOUR GAME Still ... to paraphrase POTUS, a 'Radical Left Lunatic' who loves fairness, equality and DEI.I've studied Classical Guitar since retiring, and can now read music reasonably. I've played Acoustic Guitar, intermittently, for most of my adult life. I've also taken up the Mandolin in recent years. Just learning about hashtags... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fbpe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fbpe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wokerati" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#wokerati</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClassicalGuitar" class="mention hashtag" r

Posts

Post #4009833
British Friends... Even America is seriously thinking about Proportional Representation... https://prospect.org/2026/07/22/proportional-representation-gets-a-new-look-election-reform-voting-rights-act-gerrymandering-redistricting/
Post #3910135
Yeah, neoliberal capitalism sucks... '... Reaganism unleashed major investors to reshape policy in a way that hugely increased their own wealth at the expense of our wage earners and our national security.' https://prospect.org/2026/07/13/can-american-economics-change/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Can%20American%20economics%20change%3F&utm_campaign=Weekend%20Reads%207-18-2026
Post #3779990
RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116911355302397745 W T effing F...
Post #3734848
E X A C T A M E N T O...
Post #3529088
“Austerity and cutbacks in funding for local councils has absolutely led us here, but more than that, it’s been a triumph of ideology. We’ve accepted this ideological assumption that the private sector must be better. But we’re talking about the filthy rich. And it’s the most vulnerable who are paying.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/28/1-in-every-11-spent-uk-public-contractors-private-equity?CMP=share_btn_url
Post #3423406
'Far from being passive fixers in thrall to market economies, as the neoliberal consensus would have it, in reality they are the supreme actors, shapers of markets, arbiters of the economy. They need to start believing they can govern, wield their power without apology, and stop cringing in the face of the bond markets.' https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/make-people-dream-build-economy-common-good-mariana-mazzucato?CMP=share_btn_url
Post #2513543
&#39;He said that “incremental change won’t cut it”, while proving with caveat-laden half-pledges that increments are the only currency he holds.&#39; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/13/labour-battle-of-ideas-no-10-keir-starmer-leadership?CMP=share_btn_url
Post #2360781
I call bullshit on this! &#39;The Market&#39; is a giant, gum&#39;mint sanctioned PONZI Scheme. It no longer provides investment to Industry, and is enormously over valued. But what else can you expect from a Neoliberal Chancellor? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/29/rachel-reeves-save-less-to-invest-policy-brilliant-or-disaster?CMP=share_btn_url
Post #1849345
&#39;I have only one response, and I have already said it recently: we need to increase the tax rate on wartime profits now.&#39; Tax, now https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/28/tax-now/
Post #1691403
“The only effective path to energy and economic security is homegrown clean energy. All political parties should now be uniting around that mission. Their failure to do so tells you a lot about whose interests they truly represent.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/24/global-oil-crisis-changed-fossil-fuel-industry-for-ever-iea-chief-fatih-birol?CMP=share_btn_url
Post #1359742
&#39;They believe that the goal of wealth accumulation replaces morality in their worldview, and morality is just treated as another economic externality, like climate change, which they don&#39;t have to take into consideration when forming their judgements...&#39; https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/18/trump-vs-the-pope/
Post #1238220
&#39;Trump is too lazy and arrogant to learn about important issues and systematically eliminated anyone who might know better and have the temerity to go toe-to-toe with him to avert disasters. We therefore get a stream of impulsive, illogical, and often counterproductive actions. Trump will never admit errors, so blunders pile on top of each other, making bad situations even worse.&#39; https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/trumps-blockade-is-another-blunder?utm_source=share&...
Post #1024509
[Neoliberalism] &#39;... reduced people from moral equals to economic actors, stripped public services in the name of efficiency, weakened democratic accountability, and narrowed the boundaries of political thought until Margaret Thatcher&#39;s &quot;There Is No Alternative&quot; became conventional wisdom rather than a political choice.&#39; https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/08/are-we-going-backwards/
Post #812199
&#39;Incumbent centre-left parties across the world are about to discover whether the economic framework they inherited – the one written 40 years ago, the one that said privatise, deregulate, trust the market with the essentials of life – has any road left to run. The honest answer is that it does not.&#39; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/26/water-privatisation-lethal-scandal-grieving-mother-capitalist-system?CMP=share_btn_url