🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 15/01/2026They’re doing a sterling job of it so far. He’s threatening a NATO sovereign country with annexation. NATO is moving troops there. How far does he need to go before Congress removes him? He’s said on record that the US won’t defend country it doesn’t own. 110
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Badenoch will be the only member of the band left after all the others form a new one without telling her. 110
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026But we didn’t think it’d be us vs the USA did we? 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I think Trump believes no one can really do anything to stop him. And he’s right. 100
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Xi too. Three pathetic old men holding the world to ransom. 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026US aeroplanes just sonic boomed over my house in East Anglia. What will our PM do if UK bases are used to attack a NATO member? If Trump abducts Nielsen (or Carney for that matter, what can anyone do? Only the US can contain the US. 020
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Or become PM and destroy everything we hold dear. 020
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026It’s crazy. A nuclear war will destroy us all. Destabilisation makes that more likely. 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026There’s little chance of rejoining the EU in this decade. That doesn’t mean closer ties are not possible if they benefit both parties. But Farage as be possible PM will stop anything really important happening in this Government. 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Maybe. I think there was a small chance of getting Russia into the EU and NATO and shoring up its institutions. No one really tried. 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I was hoping g for a ‘personal’ EU citizenship. A bit like this Estonian initiative. www.e-resident.gov.eee-resident.gov.eee-Residency of Estonia | Apply & start an EU company onlineWhat is e-Residency? A government-issued digital identity that provides access to Estonia's transparent business environment. Apply here! 141
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026He’s copying the University of East Anglia’s Gormley ’suicide’ statue. 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026They (and US materiel) have helped Ukraine stop Putin taking the country for four years. 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Putin hires mercenaries. I’m not sure why Ukraine doesn’t do the same? Or do they? 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026I think you’ll find that person is in the Whitehouse. And Trump can do whatever he wants and probably succeed. 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026He has a broad London accent. Australians sound like that to us in the UK. 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026He doesn’t. His kids do though. He seems to hate foreigners, apart from his wives and girlfriends. 030
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026If Trump gets his way, it’s the end of US inward investment. Markets need accurate information and monetary policy based on economic reality. The left wanted neoliberalism dead. This is what it looks like. 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Probably Norway too as he’s pissed off they didn’t give him the peace prize. Scotland needs to look out as they block his golf club planning. 030
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 11/01/2026If only we’d done that in Russia too at the end of the Cold War instead of partying as oligarchs stripped the country. 110
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 11/01/2026And the UK. Well the 2/3 of us who are not going to vote in our own MAGA Government in 2029. 020
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 10/01/2026This has to be some kind of Psychohistorical law. Same proportions voted for Brexit. Same proportions give our Governments in the UK majorities. 110
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Closer EU ties are only unpopular with voters who will never vote Labour. 100
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026New Galasphere 347 pre-release CD available now (tinyurl.com/2u4bpram ). Digital version on Bandcamp (tinyurl.com/2mdtt9fr). tinyurl.com/j6hzsjsntinyurl.comGong, Big Big Train, Steven Wilson, Galasphere 347, Karnivool, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Adrian Belew, Blodwyn Pig, Prog, Rupert Hine, Mick Abrahams, Deep Purple/Rainbow, Rush, d’Voxx, Buried Treasures,... 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026As I've written before, why does everyone assume Vance thinks this was a bad thing? 120
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Is £40k the going rate for betraying the country for Reform politicians? Gill got £40k from Russia. Corrupt US politicians wouldn’t get out of bed for that amount. 030
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Don’t ban it. Make it a publisher and responsible for content like traditional media. Then fine it. 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Imagine if he has 100 more than all the other parties. He can irreversibly destroy everything most of us hold dear in months. 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Which is why Reform are uniformly dangerous. They are not all the same. A Reform government will bring MAGA to the UK. Vote tactically. 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026He’ll be spending it on ICE and billionaires/fossil fuel industries tax breaks. 110
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026So effing ungrateful. The only time it has been invoked and it was to aid the US. And our UK PM lost his political capital to do it. 110
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026What, realistically, can a coalition of the willing do? Open sanctions and damage their economies, thereby letting. in MAGA politicians? Up defence spending. Same outcome. The only way to stop the US destroying the post war settlement (and perhaps the world) is for US to remove his regime. 000
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026What are the majorities in both houses? Is it true that all Republican politicians want Trump to destroy the post war settlement which, ironically, has made the USA the predominant economic force it is? 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I agree. But most of Europe is on the verge of voting in hard right, MAGA politicians if things get harder for them — and they will if we impose sanctions or increase military spending. The UK will have a MAGA PM in 3 years whatever. Rock and hard place. Trump wants the world split into 3 powers. 131
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026They are in the UK saying that Keir Starmer is worse than Nigel Fraage. 170
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I felt the same about this. Amazing playing and I liked some parts - not the death metal voice though. open.spotify.com/track/20RM2G...open.spotify.comThings We Tell Ourselves in the Dark 010
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 07/01/2026As the de facto leader of NATO, a rational president would put the case for enhanced military presence on the island. Trump is a bully, drunk on power. He enjoys conflict as he thinks he’ll benefit from it. And he does. As does Putin and Xi. 030
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I suspect every small country is attempting to acquire nuclear arms - no one is safe from this bully, but he’ll only attack people weaker than himself. 040
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The UK is 3 years away from following suit. We don’t even have a written constitution, just a ‘gentleman’s agreement’. Farage is no gentleman. He’s a racist MAGA loving Russian puppet. 100
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 06/01/2026If you want a fast buck, get into the nuclear arms business. Everyone is going to want one. 130
🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇸🇪🇺🇸 @stephenjbennett.bsky.social · 06/01/2026It 's the very definition of sedition, actually as you're defining things. 000
