GOOD STRATEGY REBELLION

Tag: Economics

  • Consider this: Huawei, Google and the USA

    Consider this: Huawei, Google and the USA

    Huawei2Martyn Richard Jones

    Bruxelles 20th May 2019

    Listen up!

    I have just read Simon Jenkin’s article, published in The Guardian, on the current barney between the USA and China – “Google’s Huawei ban is good news: tech giants shouldn’t always get their way“.

    This is one of those rare occasions when I don’t agree entirely with what Simon has to say, but, the piece still carries a lot of good sense and finely tuned criticism.

    For me, this quarrel isn’t fundamentally about security or reining in big-tech. This is essentially about trade wars, base protection, maintaining power and imposing influence. In short, it’s about hubris, intimidation and violence on the global political stage.

    But, at the bottom of all of this is the Trump administration’s Homeric ignorance and epic ability to simply fanny-around.

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  • 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: 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 IS NOT LEGIT

    IT’S POLITICS: BREXIT IS NOT LEGIT

    Picture1Martyn 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. (more…)

  • IT’S POLITICS: Brexit: Lose Control, Get Handed Your Arse

    IT’S POLITICS: Brexit: Lose Control, Get Handed Your Arse

    Picture1Martyn 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. (more…)

  • IT’S POLITICS: The Madness of Brexit

    IT’S POLITICS: The Madness of Brexit

    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…)

  • IT’S POLITICS: The Conceit of Remainers: The Brexit Boloney Continues

    IT’S POLITICS: The Conceit of Remainers: The Brexit Boloney Continues

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    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. (more…)

  • IT’S POLITICS: Brexit is Bullshit

    IT’S POLITICS: Brexit is Bullshit

    Peppa-Pig-eOneMartyn 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?

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  • Can Ruth save the Tories?

    Can Ruth save the Tories?

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    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.

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  • Martyn Jones, Citizen of the European Union

    Martyn Jones, Citizen of the European Union

    NapoleonMartyn 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.

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