Cancelled for Criticising BLM - Nick Buckley MBE

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Nick Buckley founded the Mancunian Way charity in 2011, helping thousands of disadvantaged children in Manchester, and was awarded an MBE for this work. In 2020 Nick was dismissed from his position as chief executive after he posted a blog regarding Black Lives Matter. Support TRIGGERnometry: Paypal: https://bit.ly/2Tnz8yq https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	this is a show for you're going to trigonometry.
0:07.0	I'm Francis Foster.
0:08.0	I'm Constantine Kistin.
0:09.0	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
0:14.5	A terrific guest today is the CEO of an award-winning charity and a social
0:19.4	campaigner. Nick Buckley and B. Welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you very much. It is great to have you
0:24.7	here Nick before we get into your story which a lot of our audience are going to find
0:27.7	very interesting I think. Just tell everybody who are you, how are you where you are, what is the journey that leads you to be sitting here talking to us?
0:36.0	That's a 50 year journey, so kid off a council estate in Manchester in South Manchester,
0:43.0	and went to a failing school,
0:46.0	didn't do really well with me exams,
0:49.0	didn't go to university,
0:51.0	did a lot of traveling around the world. I think that really changed me who I am.
0:55.7	Then I got a job with Manchester Council, started looking in different goals in there,
1:01.0	started working with young people trying to stop and getting involved
1:03.4	in crime and anti-social behaviour.
1:05.7	And then when the cuts came in 2011, austerity hit.
1:08.8	I took redundancy and used that money to invest in a charity and I set up my own charity to carry on working with young people on the streets
1:16.9	to start getting involved and making poor decisions.
1:20.8	And then June this year I did some blogging and I did a blog on Black Lives Matter because they'd just come to the fore. Nobody knew who they were.
1:32.0	So I went on the website, had a bit of a
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