Talking Points: in the News
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Coalition politics - a good example?
Talking about the General Election before it happened, it seemed difficult to think what would really change afterwards.
How wrong can you be. We have a coalition for the first time since the second world war and the word still has a rather quaint, film-newsreel aura about it. But we'll get used to it - if it lasts as well as hoped.
As if that was not enough, we've just had an 'austerity budget' that seems reminiscent of the great crises of the past - although the consensus appears to be that it could have been much worse.
The other news at the moment is the football World Cup, a process in which groups of eleven men seek to propel a spherical object into a net without using their hands (generally speaking). After all the hype, the result from an English point of view is disappointing, although I gather that north of the border folk have a spring in their step.
By way of consolation, we have learnt of the existence of the vuvuzela trumpet - which was surely not designed to be used by 20,000 people at the same time.
Getting to the point - we've been thinking about new Ambit initiatives for the Autumn. Listening to people in our local networks, our potential clients don't like it if we simply blow our own trumpets.
But they do like the idea of a coalition - where we listen to what they really want and put forward constructive ideas. We'll be following this up and hope you will join in the discussion.
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