Let's Make a Deal!
Thorough preparation is important
Meetings can sometimes appear rather anarchic with little apparent structure or direction.
Managing Director will reach a final decision that may be unilateral and is effectively irrevocable.
Be aware in your dealings that the British are masters of understatement and that irony is a favourite weapon.
Geography and culture
For most of the global population the UK is simply England and its people are English or sometimes, and more generously, Britons or just British.
Any form of discrimination is, of course, taboo but many Welsh and Scots - particularly in more rural areas - will take exception to being called English.
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