The End …

… of the nearly year, parliamentary pantomimes and the end.

2007 seems to have been a nearly year. Lewis Hamilton so nearly won the F1 World Championship, England nearly qualified for Euro 2008, Chris Huhne nearly became leader of the Liberal Democrats at the second attempt and the Government lost nearly everything in sight.

Talking of the Lib Dems, Christmas is considered to be the pantomime season, but actually the best show can be seen most Wednesdays throughout the year – yes it’s Prime Minister's Questions, otherwise known as PMQs. There have been a number of highlights. Tony Blair’s farewell performance was a masterpiece, although sadly we were deprived of the final moments by some idiot BBC director deciding to cut to something far less interesting or important.

Blair was a consummate performer, which made the new PM’s performances seem even more inept.Tony B would turn up with a neatly prepared folder of briefing notes, to which he referred only fleetingly. Gordon Brown arrives with a great untidy wad of scrawled notes that he continually shuffles through in desperate search of an answer. And when angered by the questions fired by David Cameron, the whole pack is thrown down onto the despatch box in a show of petulance.

However, often lately Cameron seems to be a blunt instrument battering away without too much success. Certainly nothing like the success of that stingingly cruel but effective jibe from Lib Dems acting leader, Vince Cable when he accused the PM of turning order into chaos and transforming from Stalin to Mr Bean. Sheer pantomime magic!

Well, that’s it for this year. In fact that’s it for Random Ramblings in its current form. From January it will become a monthly newsletter that will feature a business commentary, articles and advice; in fact whatever comes along during the month that I think might be of interest. In the January edition there will be details of our next Towards the Perfect Business Workshop with a big money saving offer for early bookings.

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Now it just remains for me to wish you a very Happy Christmas and a successful business year in 2008.


David Wike