The sale of 'well-behaved multinationals' (dixit professor Henk Volberda) we should not want was the tenor in the Chamber and the months-long lobby of four prominent business leaders, including top lawyer and old boy Peter Wakkie. They have the tide. The look in Europe and the USA is more inward and focused on national interests. In addition, a fresh House of Representatives is striving to connect its name to new laws and to act as a public representative.