Do you feel you need to take any action to combat the current national financial climate?

[Mike Leahy]

I'm getting a feeling that business owners are seeing the current downturn as either very worrying or as an opportunity. How do you feel? Are you being affected in any way from reduced orders through to difficulty raising finance?

I'm finding very little change except some canny businesses are now looking to find ways to increase marketing without increasing their spend. This isn't a real challenge because al businesses have hidden marketing assets - and that's what I'm winkling out.

[Mike Leahy]

Have far we come since Rosa Park refused to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama in 1955 because of racial segregation.

And now a black President. But forget colour. A young President who talks the talk and hopefully will walk the walk. See his victory speech at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/nov/05/speech-full and celebrate too.

Having seen “Week In, Week Out” last evening and the sheer size of the loss of jobs and businesses in Wales I went to bed feeling really depressed, not for me but because I know how the knock-on effect can affect so many.

So it was heart-lifting to see Barack Obama give his victory speech. As an orator he must rank amongst the best ever. I hope he will live up to his words. I believe he will live up to his words. I trust him.

What do you feel? Do you think that this will be good for the UK?