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Buck Frexit

@beany.bsky.social
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The same remoaning remoaner from Twitter. Anti Brexit, Anti Tory, Anti Trump. Pro Facts, Pro Fun, Pro not putting up with racism. Grieving mother 💔

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 22h
So predictable, they will do nothing to move this country forward. In fact every time Tories get into power they take us backwards: selling things off, wrecking our trade and pandering to racists & millionaires. Nice to have a reminder they haven’t learned anything after being thoroughly kicked out.
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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 23h
Tories rule out taking party in Burnham's proposed cross-party commission on electoral reform - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 22h
...Put those together and the result is that over 15 years the triple lock has pushed up the state pension in cash terms by more than growth in average earnings and more than the increase in prices...4/5
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Best news today? The significant rise in business investment, which matters because it drives tmrw’s growth not just today’s: - business investment is estimated to have increased by 1.8% in Q2 - it is up 5.2% on the year Chart (from Reuters)👇
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h
President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years" My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23h
A *third* Byline Times journalist has now been barred from Conservative conference – Chief Reporter @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. It comes after Political Editor @adambienkov.bsky.social and the late, great David Hencke were barred last year. bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
bylinetimes.com
Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference
The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So let’s see practical steps to rejoin asap. As global insecurity grows, anything less simply won’t do
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This mindset is the least we deserve from a leader. Of course it has to be turned into action. But this kind of ambition and love for the country, this kind of personal but positive vision is what takes people with you. How feeble-minded Farage and Badenoch seem. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Photo of Burnham waving to the audience in front of HOPE AGAIN backdrop Burnham was not going to die wondering. He knew he might be delivering one of the longest suicide notes in history, but he did it anyway. Because he couldn't not do it. Better to go down remaining true to his principles than being slowly airbrushed out of history like the previous six prime ministers. Failures all. Andy was prepared to burn through all his political capital right there in Liverpool, right then. Not just for his own legacy but for a country he wanted to rebuild. It was the only way he could look himself in the mirror.
Honour his parents.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 23h
Which demographic group do the Tories think will benefit most from a national care service? I suppose the younger generation should pay for that as well eh? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
bbc.co.uk
Tories accuse Burnham of 'taking money' from pensioners as PM defends plan to adjust triple lock
Under the plan, due to start next year, the state pension will continue to rise each year in line with inflation or by 2.5% - but the annual earnings link will be dropped.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If anyone thinks you can’t remove the triple lock whilst being fine with charging our kids 6% interest on the colossal loans they need to take for a higher education we got for free, then frankly I don’t care much for your opinion. Either we’re all important or we live in an angry, divided society.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every month of 2026 has been warmer than average in the UK. #climatecrisis
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UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
humanists.uk
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WHOOOP!!!!! This is VERY welcome news - PM will announce a process to introduce PR for Westminster elections: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Marginal rates on graduates and high-earners are too high – as I’ve often written – but it doesn’t follow that the overall tax take is. If you’re serious about social care/defence/public services then you can’t commit to reducing overall taxes now.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Your regular reminder that UK taxes are average by western standards and low on middle-earners. Labour figures, especially, should not fall into the trap of pretending that we have a “high” tax burden and that taxes are to blame for the living standards crisis. www.arguably.uk/p/the-tax-tr...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXC - We *also* have an MRP out today - which has some very striking findings. Progressives who vote tactically to stop Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could push his party into FOURTH place. The poll also shows Burnham’s Labour is winning back left-leaning voters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped”
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Flipping hell, I’m just coming off a 1 year energy fix and the cheapest price I can get now will see my gas increase by 63% and my electricity by 19%. Thanks Trump, you absolute prick.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This wouldn't happen in the UK. Reform and the Conservatives have been banning journalists and news organisations they don't approve of for years now and the lobby has done absolutely nothing about it
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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨 Can we all agree to totally ignore and destroy the “PolitlcsUK”* account everyone gets their news from now? It’s run by a REFORM COUNCILLOR, and trickles bias and fabricated nonsense in under a neutral guise. Share this. Drop it under friends reposts. 👀 Evidence in next post…. /1
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any lives lost due to this closure should be laid firmly at the feet of the far-right agitators who caused this. The way in which anti-asylum activists are putting more and more people at risk should be a wake up call that it is time to genuinely combat them, rather than pandering to their ideology.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They’ve closed the Portsmouth RNLI station. This is who we are now. The silent ‘majority’ have just been too bloody silent. They no longer live amongst us. We live amongst them. We have all got to do more and bloody loudly…
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So scrap inheritance tax for the one in twenty families that pay it and instead make everyone - the lowest paid, those who’ll never own a property for their children to inherit - pay more. So gross. So Tory.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A Reform UK councillor who was elected in May has a historic conviction for racial harassment
liverpoolecho.co.uk
Reform UK backs councillor with racial harassment conviction
Cllr Emma Beck recently had an assault conviction quashed on appeal
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 15/09/2026
News. It's likely the State Pension will rise by 3.9% next April based on the rise in average earnings that has just been published. This'd take the full new State Pension it to just over £13,000, yet the tax free personal allowance is frozen at £12,570.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"US foreign policy now hardly exists. It’s been replaced by random whims blurted out by an ignorant, easily confused amateur, who hasn’t done his homework, hasn’t thought through the implications of his declarations, and might very well change his mind without warning..." www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
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Trump stumbles into an international incident of his own making in Ireland
The underlying issue is best approached with a nuanced understanding of history, culture, diplomacy and regional politics. Trump skipped all that.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
While average pay grows by 3.9% FTSE100 bosses see 10.9% rise to top £5 million a year average.
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Lizzy Price @lizzyjprice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Totally agree. Think this letter today also says it well. The Right thrives because the centre has been too weak on the things it should be fighting for. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
The far right’s rise is a wake-up call for Europe | Letters
Letters: Benjamin Selwyn, Dr Michael Esser and William Ward on the increasing popularity of rightwing extremists in Germany and Britain
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know these are very different things but from allowing stupid flavoured vapes, to deciding to do fuck all to help students on crippling loans & doing nothing about huge political donations it’s really feels like politics in this country has given up. It’s always too late & always too small.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 13/09/2026
This is a very disappointing response that does little to help the millions of students already struggling with student loans! My view on the govt's reponse today to the Treasury Committee student loan report...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Crypto billionaire. Convicted in the US. Pardoned by Trump. Trashing our democracy by buying Reform. Does anyone think this is to improve our NHS, our schools, our public services…? Of course it fucking isn’t. It’s to make Ben Delo and Farage richer. That’s it. That’s all they care about.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On the £36m donation to Reform UK from Ben Delo... Lib Dems: "Farage wants to bring Trump's America to our shores by buying his way into power. He's trying to get into No 10 as if it's a stop on a monopoly board" The PM "needs to introduce a cap on political donations. Our democracy depends on it"
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I keep on going back to this one that I find particularly disturbing. Trump is posting AI of him beating the shit out Carney repeatedly with an ice hockey stick. Quite apart from being deranged is there still anyone in America that does not understand how badly this degrades America?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Victoria Derbyshire, "Canada, France, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK, they're all wrong (on banning settlement goods)?" Conservative's Bernard Jenkin, "I think they are"
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/09/2026
If you can look at this photo without your heart breaking, then you don’t have a soul.
Palestinian children watching Lion King in Gaza
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That precious look back… 💕
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
United Utilities fined £964,225, pleads guilty to dumping raw sewage in seas. Crimes date back to 2023. Fined at least 223 times since 2010, paid £8m. Still committing crimes, bosses rewarded but none prosecuted, shareholders enriched. Revoke its licence. Nationalise water.
bbc.co.uk
United Utilities fined £900k over Fleetwood sewage discharges
A pipe collapse at Fleetwood Wastewater Treatment Works led to the sewage spillage.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
UK will announce illegal settlements trade ban today - but more than that. Miliband will announce a broad reset of the UK’s relations with Israel, promising the government will take a more active approach in supporting the Palestinian cause. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK to adopt tougher stance on Israel with illegal settlements trade ban
Ed Miliband to reassert support for Palestinian rights and a two-state solution in move fiercely criticised by US and Israel
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
👀 Global shipping industry group makes its first public intervention since it was founded 60 years ago, to warn that the rules governing global shipping are breaking down. "Without maritime trade... the global economy as we know it would come to a sudden halt". www.ft.com/content/c651...
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Global shipping rules are collapsing, say maritime nations
Wars and the growth of the shadow fleet are causing a ‘structural shift’ in global trade, according to 18 maritime authorities
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wrote about how politicians need (PLEASE) to stop using the phrase ‘legitimate concerns about immigration’, particularly when responsible to far-right riots. www.lbc.co.uk/article/legi...
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Britain does not have an immigration problem, it has a nuance problem writes Natasha Devon | LBC
By endlessly repeating that people’s anxieties are ‘legitimate’, politicians are giving credence to the far-right’s propaganda and inadvertently stoking the tensions they were designed to rile up.
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