07 Mon Aug 2017
Posted in Brexit, Economics, Europe, European Union, Inform, educate and entertain., Northern Ireland, Politics, Scotland, Trade, Wales
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Martyn Richard Jones
Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 7th August 2017
Brexit is not legit, and the highest expression of patriotism and democratic credibility that is at our disposal is to lawfully and rightfully oppose all forms of Brexit. Continue reading
06 Sun Aug 2017
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Martyn Jones
Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 6th August 2017
They told us that by voting for Brexit we would take back control.
They told us that Brexit would mean control over sovereignty and immigration. Which would mean total control over the economy, culture, society, law making, international relationships and trade.
They told us that voting for Brexit was the only patriotic option on offer.
This is what the backers of Brexit, through media, political and celebrity bullshitting agents, and a plethora of Brexit’s useful idiots, were telling us we would get once we were out of the EU. Continue reading
04 Fri Aug 2017
Posted in behaviour, business, business strategy, Good Strategy, Inform, educate and entertain., Politics, POTUS, Sociology, Strategy, USA
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Martyn Jones
Bornheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany – 4th August 2017
Like him or loath him, the fact of the matter is that the 45th President of the USA is Donald Trump.
Many see him as a blow-dried extrovert who can close big business deals and get the important jobs done. Others see him as an uncouth, ignorant and potty-mouthed bully, totally unfit for any public office – even that of dog-catcher.
He may have lots of detractors both sides of the beltway, but Donald Trump, who has been compared favourably with Andrew Jackson, has retained considerable support, especially in the rustbelt and coal mining communities.
02 Wed Aug 2017
Martyn Richard Jones
Düsseldorf, Germany – 2nd August 2017
Last year I was asked if I would contemplate taking on the management of Brexit. It was a hypothetical question. No one is actually going to offer me the job. I had no qualms in stating that, given the complexity, uncertainties, risks and costs, I would hope that I would have the good sense to turn down such an offer. With the recommendation to the client that they should not to undertake such a reckless, costly and strategically stupid project.
So, that’s my going-in position. As other strategists will have picked up on. Continue reading
01 Tue Aug 2017
Posted in Brexit, Economics, Europe, European Union, Inform, educate and entertain., Philosophy, Politics, Social, Trade
Martyn 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. Continue reading
01 Tue 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 Wed 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 Sun 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 Fri Jul 2017
Posted in Economics, European Union, Good Strategy, goodstrat, Philosophy, Politics, Strategy
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.
10 Sat Sep 2016
Martyn Richard Jones
Dublin, 10th September 2016
Theresa May, as Prime Minister of Her Majesty’s Government, has overall responsibility for organising the United Kingdom’s retreat from the European Union.
But, Theresa May has a problem, she doesn’t appear to have a detailed plan for Brexit, at all.
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