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As the Trowers & Hamlins team gear up to participate in the upcoming party political conferences, the anticipation is palpable. With the 2024 general election battlegrounds taking shape, mini-cabinet and shadow cabinet reshuffles underway, and emerging political priorities on the horizon, our public sector team is looking forward to analysing the major messages from each party concerning local government. The decisions made at the conferences will profoundly impact the communities we serve. We're committed to ensuring that local government remains a central part of the political conversation. We are looking forward to working with our partner Localis (think tank) during the conferences to specifically examine how to fix local government finances, more details below: https://bit.ly/48mH71y #LocalGovernment #2024Election #PublicSector s114s #LGFinances

Hey everyone. Check out my wee blog post https://wix.to/jtBRrlb #newblogpost on Endings and Beginnings. An appropriate post election theme I thought.

ICYMI: In the March edition of the STA newsletter, read an article on the importance and integrity of STA’s relationships with the regulatory and congressional staff defining US market structure this election year, see details on our DC Spring Update and more: https://conta.cc/3TU2MJc

So, how did we get here? Sitting in the hemicycle at 2 AM, after 12 hours of closely following exit poll after exit poll, we’ve seen countless MEPs, press officers, and lead candidates of the different political groups repeat the same mistake: they went on the big stage to celebrate their victories without a clear vision that could resonate throughout the European Union. As we emphasised in detail last week, where policymakers failed to communicate progress, the ID group filled the gap with its own narratives. Given the far-right’s plans to follow up their electoral successes with a rebranding into a ‘democratic’ party, what’s imminent is this: the fringes can turn into the new centre. Here's what we think led to this year's election results:

Great article! We need to keep doing the core work of registering, engaging, and turning out voters, while keeping an eye open and preparing for "chaos factors" (I call it X-factors). It'll be naive to treat this as a typical election year.

Take your mind off the General Election and start thinking about how your business can grow regardless of who gets in. Book your place now we're starting to fill up quickly.

Our latest Market Review message focusses on what we may see unfold in terms of a busy late summer, based on previous election results. Video: https://lnkd.in/esmCSEr2 Web: https://lnkd.in/exfjRJtb

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Foresight and futuring come in several forms. Some approaches try predicting the future, though these kinds of speculative exercise can be unsatisfying if incorrect or overwhelming given the number of scenarios to consider. This article offers a framework that categorizes the different kinds of events that can affect our democracy, and names several approaches that can help build our resilience no matter the scenario. The core point of the article is intuitive, though difficult to do in practice. Rather than preparing for the unforeseeable "Black Swans," which by definition is impossible, we should concentrate our attention on "White Swans" and "Gray Rhinos," or events what we can see and prepare for (or begin preparing for). Although I recognize our democracy is confronting a myriad of questions and uncertainties, I am heartened to know that there is good, essential, and potentially transformative work already happening in communities across the country. These efforts are core to how we respond to many scenarios, both in 2024 and beyond.