tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7747759322341026313.post2011374513228875612..comments2023-12-31T07:32:12.295+00:00Comments on The Voice of Reason: A disturbing threat issued by Carlos Cortiglia to the BNP if something is not done about Claire KhawClaire Khawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11557436240917008429noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7747759322341026313.post-40707935641719288002011-09-12T22:44:36.109+01:002011-09-12T22:44:36.109+01:00I really don't know what Carlos thought Jeffre...I really don't know what Carlos thought Jeffrey Marshall could do about what I choose to write on my blog. <br /><br />Carlos has not handled his relationships within the party well at all.<br /><br />Firstly, he should not have made reckless threats about "destroying" me when I had been suspended. He should have known that it would get back to me. Perhaps he thought he could take the credit for getting me expelled, when in fact everyone knows that the leader can veto and push anything through if that is what he wants.<br /><br />In politics one does not need to go out of one's way to make more enemies than the ones naturally ranged against us. <br /><br />Carlos has not quite worked out his position in the hierarchy of things. Any candidate that does not have the enthusiastic support of the Organisers will find it difficult to be successful as they are the ones who hold the meetings and organise the activists. <br /><br />Carlos should have known that he was in the position of a supplicant, rather than a superior making demands and threats that he thought he was by dint of being mayoral candidate.<br /><br />Perhaps too many allowances were made for him. I do of course understand that foreigners and women get a lot of leeway and much is excused on grounds of gender or cultural differences. <br /><br />The way Carlos has handled his relationships within the party gives a poor prognosis of his ability to handle a hostile liberal media who will not be quite so forgiving of his little ways.<br /><br />While I still feel that the best candidate would have been me, Jeffrey Marshall would be an excellent replacement for Carlos in view of his impeccable nationalist antecedents. He is also male, white, a graduate, has the disarming demeanour of a bookish LibDem, and stands head and shoulders taller than the remaining candidates.Claire Khawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557436240917008429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7747759322341026313.post-47085457908219379272011-09-12T15:07:19.468+01:002011-09-12T15:07:19.468+01:00Carlos should have handled it differently in my op...Carlos should have handled it differently in my opinion. This has been to his own detriment. In Politics one must stay calm; be succint in your retort and have a point. I saw none of these attributes at the said meeting. It saddens me as I had believed Carlos would improve BNP image.Claudianoreply@blogger.com