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Published by Tim Kidson on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 11:17 am

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Promises, promises

Many people including me have spent an entire lifetime fundamentally unable to understand how politics works. Yet nobody disputes the fact that we have to have politics like food, water and air.

There was a discussion on Radio Five Live this week about the extraordinary Formula One racing season that recently culminated with Jenson Button becoming World Champion. Scandal followed scandal all year long apparently and just when it seemed there couldn’t be anything to top the last scandal, there was.

“Was politics good for the sport?” asked one commentator. Overwhelmingly “Yes” was the answer because the ensuing media scrum raised the profile of Formula One racing tenfold agreed the pundits.

So maybe it is the same in business? But I still can’t see how someone can say one thing with absolute conviction one day, only to say the opposite with equal conviction some time later.

Perhaps it’s just time and circumstance at work, and they change everything.

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