2012 New Year Honours

[teamsaint]

Interesting stuff

Many business people use NLP how is it different with CP ?

and how are the CP networks different from those of the Old Etonians, Masons, CofE, FCS, RC Church, Tufty Club, MCC etc etc ?

the bit of the youtube video I watched conflated being pro EU with being pro a Nazi europe so it's hard to take the man seriously

i don't think there is anybody who I agree with completely.....apart from Mrs Teamsaint , obviously!!

I agree that there are lots of other networks out there, some of which need careful watching. CP specifically targets leaders, and those in the public sector and public life. There is very evident danger here, even though there may be some benign effects as well.
AS regards NLP, the fact that businesses use it does not encourage me to the view that it is benign. It may well be used for highly dubious purposes.

some people never recovered from the Tufty club either !!

[Lateralthinking1]

I think transparent networks are informative in themselves. The public schools system for starters. Oxbridge. All the dynasties - including in broadcasting. And then economics. A very senior economist in the service under New Labour moved into an international consultancy and was rapidly followed by colleagues so that a part of the team effectively regrouped there. I knew one well. You could perhaps describe it as a shadow economics unit of the Civil Service in the international private sector. The economist was also the wife of a leading MP but it is an unusual relationship. Each is awaiting an outcome on other proceedings.

There are a lot of examples too of associations of professionals and think tanks in which apparent opposition works within agreed parameters. I doubt that much of it is devoted to changing the world order. An awful amount focusses on keeping things as they have been or reversing them. Dystopia tends to be what we all fall into if we are not careful. The only answer is to maximise the opportunities for democracy, particularly where controls emanate predominantly from those unaccountable to electorates. This is not to say teamsaint that I disagree with your reading of bankers who may have a more elaborate agenda along with the neocons.

[Barbirollians]

No Dame Ida Haendel ! Scandalous .