@stephenbrunt.bsky.social
Alderman, amateur historian WW1, CWGC Speaker, ageing biker, Rams fan, all views my own.
25.05.2025 13:22 β π 730 π 254 π¬ 45 π 16
The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.
25.05.2025 12:10 β π 1072 π 343 π¬ 46 π 20
23.05.2025 01:55 β π 5411 π 1637 π¬ 131 π 79
Farage never bothered to turn up when UK fishing rights were being discussed. He never turned up in the EU parliament - yet he did vote against an EU clamp down on Russian propaganda.
Working against the interests of our nation.
RIP, Norm.
21.05.2025 01:22 β π 22806 π 2542 π¬ 488 π 185
Brexit has given us:
π₯ Lower GDP
π₯ Worse services
π₯ Higher immigration
π₯ More austerity
π₯ More red tape
π₯ Higher prices
π₯ Fewer freedoms
π₯ Staff shortages
π₯ Worse for farmers
π₯ Worse for fishermen
π₯ Less food security
π₯ Less sovereignty
π₯ More division
π₯ More hate
π₯ A border in the Irish Sea
This reminds me so much of the stars who must have made similar speeches in the 1930s to warn against what was happening in Nazi Germany. But unlike now, they didn't have social media. Bruce is right! We must join together in a union of decent people. No state visits! No more normalisation of evil!
16.05.2025 10:47 β π 55 π 8 π¬ 2 π 3Is the American military taking a stand? Some are.
#MAGAmerica
We are all Bruce Springsteen today.
16.05.2025 23:04 β π 45 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
You voted in a bunch of criminals
16.05.2025 10:16 β π 3040 π 1191 π¬ 145 π 62We were there and yes he opened with that statement to rapturous applause from the audience π
16.05.2025 06:10 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Our relationship with the EU has to be about far more than trade. It also has to be about culture, education, science, agriculture, climate change, biodiversity, travel, security, relationships, families, dreams. Why should a parcel or a packet of peas have more freedom of movement than a person?
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Absolutely.
10.05.2025 15:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mark Carney, "The lessons of Brexit are beginning to be applied to the US"
"When you break trading relationships you end up with slower growth"
Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 34 MILLION! π
LETS DO THIS!
Please welcome PRESIDENT @barackobama.bsky.social to BlueSky,,, working in my Flaverification,,,
23.03.2025 21:41 β π 42056 π 5033 π¬ 994 π 331Thank you, dear Keir Starmer, for hosting the leaders' meeting today.
We reiterate our support to Ukraineβs agreement to a ceasefire.
Now Russia has to show that it is willing to support a ceasefire leading to a just and lasting peace.
Letβs go for it! Tell everyone you know to join @bsky.app and TOGETHER letβs send them packing
08.03.2025 18:51 β π 12992 π 3517 π¬ 270 π 77
We are living in dangerous times.
Europeβs security is threatened in a very real way.
Today I present ReArm Europe.
A plan for a safer and more resilient Europe β
europa.eu/!MFPVMC
NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership
This is not about merit; itβs about normalizing racism and misogyny
01.03.2025 15:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Here's what the idiots in the White House utterly fail to comprehend. They and the US came out of that argument weaker. Zelensky came out stronger, with Europe rallying behind Ukraine more than before. They came out looking like petulant idiots; he came out looking like a leader with integrity.
28.02.2025 21:04 β π 4493 π 774 π¬ 84 π 48What weβre witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
28.02.2025 21:47 β π 10525 π 2863 π¬ 171 π 344He was being told his own soldiers were fleeing the battlefield and he was forcing them to fight. How would it have looked back home if he had let that go unchallenged?
01.03.2025 06:30 β π 1863 π 316 π¬ 33 π 8
For Betty Campbell. Wales first ever black headteacher. What a wonderful tribute in Cardiff city centre.
24.02.2025 07:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In support of Ukraine. Cardiff city centre yesterday afternoon.π
23.02.2025 14:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump firing the 300 people who oversee our nationβs nuclear weapons stockpile and then realizing the gravity of his mistake before trying to backtrack is a perfect encapsulation of how is dangerous incompetence is putting the entire world at risk.
Donβt let anyone forget it.
Came across this interesting headstone in Divisional CWG cemetery just outside Ypres this morning. Two brothers ages 23 and 17 respectively and only sons of their late father also a military man, Colonel W J Beninfield.
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