01 Tuesday Aug 2017
Martyn Jones
Carmarthen, Wales 1st August 2017
I am a citizen of the European Union; I have always supported the European ideal; and I will never stop fighting Brexit until it has been consigned to the annals of history as a temporary aberration, a time when things could have gone very badly, but didn’t. Continue reading
26 Wednesday Jul 2017
Martyn Jones
Carmarthen, Wales 20th July 2017
Let’s face it.
Brexit is bullshit.
Maybe it’s worse than bullshit.
Either way, one thing is for sure. Brexit is the most revealing, significant and catastrophic episode of irrational, self-harming and bloody-minded lunacy in the entire history of the British Isles.
But, why did it turn out that way?
What drove so many people to vote for far greater risk, uncertainty about the future and the rejection of the stability, presence and influence that we have within the EU?
23 Sunday Jul 2017
Martyn Richard Jones
Carmarthen, Wales 23rd July 2017
The UK government is in a mess. Theresa May’s team lacks coherence, cohesiveness and credibility. It’s driven by instinct and its instincts are not clever. It’s a team that has taken on far more than it can adequately manage. It has bluffed and blustered its way to the forefront of the political beauty stakes only to be confronted with significant political, economic and social challenges for which it has no rational or reasonable strategies, policies or plans.
The Tory cabinet is about as effective, credible and desirable as an unruly gang of drunken revellers on an extended stag-do in Benidorm.
14 Friday Jul 2017
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Martyn Richard Jones
Carmarthen, Wales 13th July 2017
I’m British by accident of birth. It’s not a bad accident. In fact it is fortunate. But, that is by the by.
I was born in a very welsh Wales of tightly knit communities, close harmony choral singing, coal of Saudi Arabian proportions, heavy industry, agriculture and larger-than-life legends.
08 Thursday Sep 2016
Martyn Richard Jones
Bamberg, 8th September 2016
Months have passed since the United Kingdom held its European Union membership referendum which resulted in a ‘win’ for the pro-leave Brexiteers. Yet the strongest signal coming out of London is that the government is stalling; playing for time. Clearly, as yet, the government hasn’t worked out in any real, concrete or detailed terms what it should be doing or where the country should be going or what it can even say to the array of stakeholders and interested parties. Which, given that Brexit is by far the biggest constitutional challenge in my lifetime, is quite problematic.
03 Saturday Sep 2016
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Martyn Richard Jones
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 3rd September 2016
On the 23rd of June the UK held a popular referendum. The question posed to the people was: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?” A simple choice between remain or leave.
Leave received more votes than remain, at 52% versus the 48% who voted for remain.