Lots happening in the UK Parliament today (27 March 2019). Nobody knows what will happen next, however I got an image in my head of Theresa May (UK Prime Minister) as the pied piper with just a few rats, oops I mean politicians, following and the rest of the rats way behind and going in opposite directions. History is being written right now. Enjoy!
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Leadership is potentially the most difficult human trait any human has to perform and try to master. Unfortunately most of us will never realise our potential.
We are all leaders in our own lives, you don’t have to be managing people to be seen as a leader. Leadership is evident in your deeds, in your words, in your writings, your actions and behaviour towards humankind.
In the past week, we’ve had many opposing examples of leadership in the world. Without going into massive detail, I’m sharing some of the top level detail of those leadership examples.
The first leadership example is by Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, whose outstanding leadership amongst one of the worst terrorist crimes to take place in her country, has been incredible. Her compassion and decisive gun law changes is a great example of leadership in government. Let’s hope that many leaders in the world will look to copy her leadership style.
The second leadership example is by Theresa May, UK’s Prime Minster, whose leadership style is quite interesting indeed. I am sure you have heard about Brexit and it is quite an emotive topic in the U.K. and has been for at least 6 years, when leaving the EU was first promoted by the previous Prime Minister, David Cameron. Theresa May went on national television to complain about parliament for not voting for her deal. She also takes everything very personally and uses the ‘I’ word regularly. She rarely says ‘we’, suggesting that she is the only one running the country, which of course can’t be further from the truth.
The third example is Donald Trump, who will go down in history for potentially the most famous president of all time. He loves the limelight and if he doesn’t get it, he goes on Twitter rants. His latest rant was a series of 29 sequential tweets in one rant sitting. It almost seems as if he is unable, unwilling and incapable of actual speaking with people. He uses Twitter to hide behind and believes he can reach his supporters in this way.
In summary one great leadership example and two poor ones.
Hopefully you will chose example one to take forward into your journey of leadership.
Success!
“I’ve been wondering what that special place in hell looks like.”
~ Donald Tusk — EU Council’s President. Guardian article.
His comment inspired our latest cartoon; Hellboy (Tusk) meets Wonder Woman (May).
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It’s not boring in the U.K. is it? We have a Brexit shambles. It took me days to think of a cartoon to sum up the current state of ‘fear and doubt’ in this country and then it came to me a ‘Dogs Brexit’. Enjoy!
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Theresa May has had to go begging to EU ministers to get more clarity on the Northern Ireland ‘backstop’, she also went begging to her own conservative parliamentary party to remain confidence in her. It reminded us of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. The question is does she actually deserve more? It inspired our latest cartoon. Enjoy!
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Cartoon 48/2018.
The biggest national (UK) debate is #Brexit. Sigh, it’s getting to everyone and most of all it’s weighing down heavily on the UK Prime Minster Theresa May. Her ducking and diving and trying to stop the publication of legal advice, reminded me of a cartoon we did earlier in the year. We just changed the words. Enjoy!
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The current debate at the moment gave me a sense of the ‘Wizard of OZ’. Theresa May is the ‘Scarecrow’ (a scared crow) and Michel Barnier is the ‘Tin Man’ (inflexible).
I then saw them on that famous game show, ‘Deal or No Deal’.
It inspired our latest cartoon, enjoy! And the media are whipping up a ‘fear frenzy’.
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The Windrush generation have been threatened with deportation, refused access to public services such as healthcare or lost their jobs as a result of “hostile environment” immigration policies in the UK. The prime minister promised MPs there would be a “full review of lessons learned” following the scandal, which has engulfed the government in recent weeks and forced the resignation of the home secretary, Amber Rudd.
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The West has declared war on Syria. Macron, May and Trump agreed and have taken action against the tyrant Assad following a chemical attack on Syrian’s citizens. We drew this in the morning of the day that the attack took place. We didn’t know for sure that the three of them would actually take action.
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