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Category: European Union

  • IT’S POLITICS: The Madness of Brexit – Retrospective- 2026/01/25

    IT’S POLITICS: The Madness of Brexit – Retrospective- 2026/01/25

    MADMartyn Jones

    Carmarthen, Wales – 31st July 2017 

    Many Brexiteers take a simplistic, restricted and shallow view of how the UK will leave the European Union.

    It’s to be expected.

    Some people are both wilfully ignorant and certain of their beliefs, even though their beliefs are no better than reactionary and rationalised prejudice, socialised absurdity and tidy-minded incongruence.

    It’s to be expected. (more…)

    MADMartyn Jones

    Carmarthen, Wales – 31st July 2017 

    Many Brexiteers take a simplistic, restricted and shallow view of how the UK will leave the European Union.

    It’s to be expected.

    Some people are both wilfully ignorant and certain of their beliefs, even though their beliefs are no better than reactionary and rationalised prejudice, socialised absurdity and tidy-minded incongruence.

    It’s to be expected. (more…)

  • REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES

    REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES

    REVEALING WEALTH: USING BIG DATA TO FIGHT TAX EVASION – MARTYN JONES

    If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.

    Warren Buffett

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  • IT’S POLITCS: Brexit bullshit! Labour must lead!

    IT’S POLITCS: Brexit bullshit! Labour must lead!

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Brussels 24th June 2019

    In 2016 the UK held what was called the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum the objective of which was to gauge public sentiment about the UK leaving or remaining in the EU.

    It was a non-binding consultation, which means that regardless of outcome, it can be legitimately ignored by MPs.

    The generally accepted nonsense about the referendum being legally or constitutionally binding was just that, nonsense.

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  • IT’S POLITICS: “Will of the people” bullshit

    IT’S POLITICS: “Will of the people” bullshit

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Brussels Saturday 22nd June 2019

    In 2016 the UK held what was offically known as the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, a non-binding consultation with the people of the UK on the question of the UK leaving or remaining in the EU.

    51.9% of those who voted supported the UK’s exit from the European Union.

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  • IT’S POLITICS: Why Labour Must Reject Brexit: Six Key Electoral Demographics

    IT’S POLITICS: Why Labour Must Reject Brexit: Six Key Electoral Demographics

    003Martyn Martyn Richard Jones

    Bruxelles 27th May 2019

    My post-EU election advice to the UK Labour Party leadership

    As I commented to Keir Starmer today “Labour are making a fundamental mistake and it ain’t working, Keir”.

    Labour’s approach to Brexit is completely the wrong strategy and it’s doing nobody (apart from Nigel Farage) any favours. No Brexit will benefit the immense majority of the country, we know that, and we know that the EU is not going to cut a better deal for anyone, regardless of their political flavour, because that’s just the way it is.

    Like it or loath it, but, Theresa May probably struck the best Brexit deal that the UK can aspire to, and it was roundly rejected, for various reasons, by Westminster. No, the best Brexit deal is no Brexit at all.

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  • UK Government? Global Charlies!

    UK Government? Global Charlies!

    Picture6Martyn Richard Jones

    Bonn 31st August 2017

    It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, the view of the UK government doesn’t get any better.

    Edinburgh, London, Brussels, Beijing or Washington. It’s increasingly obvious that Theresa May and her cabinet are a painfully embarrassing and unfunny joke.

    They stand as an obdurate aberration where once there had been some semblance of cultured diplomacy, breadth and depth of intelligence and strategic thinking. They defy the laws of reason, good sense and decency. They are the Keystone Cops, the Chuckle Brothers and the Carry On Camping of governance. (more…)

  • IT’S POLITICS: Brexit: A question for Jeremy Corbyn

    IT’S POLITICS: Brexit: A question for Jeremy Corbyn

    Image1Martyn Richard Jones

    Bonn 28th August 2017

    In my opinion, Brexit, any Brexit, could spell economic, political and social disaster for the UK. Brexit could ensure the demise of the Good Friday Agreement, with seriously damaging consequences. It could see the independence of Scotland – not necessarily a bad thing for Scotland, but yet another unintended consequence of Brexit. And, it could significantly deteriorate the rights and conditions of workers in the UK.

    So, I wish to put a Brexit question to Jeremy Corbyn.

    Will the working people in the UK be better off if the UK leaves the European Union?

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  • IT’S POLITICS: Brexit: MPs must act, now!

    IT’S POLITICS: Brexit: MPs must act, now!

    Picture2Martyn Richard Jones

    Bonn 14th August 2017

    To paraphrase a famous quote, ‘Now is the time for all good MPs to come to the aid of the United Kingdom.’

    Brexit is the enemy at the gate, the wolf at the door and the most significant threat to our collective future. This is our darkest hour of greatest need and Brexit must be stopped.

    Of course Brexit must be stopped.

    And, we have the power to do it. (more…)

  • IT’S POLITICS: The Selfish Brexiteers

    IT’S POLITICS: The Selfish Brexiteers

    Picture2Martyn Richard Jones

    Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 11th August 2017

    What will the UK look like ‘post-Brexit?

    Will Brexit result, as I read on Twitter, in the UK “taking back what we never lost to lose everything we currently have.”?

    My concern is about what could happen to the people in the UK when we have finally run-away from Europe.

    With Brussels gone, with the EU and the Single Market gone, with our EU citizenship ripped from our cold dead hands, who will Brexiteers have to complain about once we have become an isolated, tiny and populous ex-colonialist island to the east of New Jersey?

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  • IT’S POLITICS: Brexit Britain’s Blaggers

    IT’S POLITICS: Brexit Britain’s Blaggers

    Picture1Martyn Richard Jones

    Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 8th August 2017

    Is Britain becoming a scoundrel’s paradise?

    From the massively lucrative and almost risk-free student debt being sold on the cheap to a select band of chums in the private financial sector. To the scandalous misrepresentation, mendacity and downright deception of the leading guttersnipes and pimps of the Brexit campaign. Through the loud zoo of opportunistic, scabrous and malignant political animals chafing at the bit to return the UK to the dark ages of jungle law, rotten political leaders and nastier political masters, and with it, the ability of the few to effortlessly intimidate, coerce and mistreat the many.

    Legion are the examples of the erosion of values in a Britain that once aspired to be a truly decent society.

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