Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Yourmedway

Councillor was in USA forging links

Reading through the letters page in Issue No 25 of Yourmedway (February 27, 2008) led me to wonder if Cllr Teresa Murray has ever heard of the word “diplomacy”, or if she is unable to ever cast party politics aside.

According to the dictionary, diplomacy is “the art or practice of conducting international relations”, and Cllr Rehman Chishti certainly wasn’t in America to settle his supposed “struggle to decide on his political allegiances”.

Mr Chishti’s role was to observe how elections are run in America – not to try and sway public opinion towards, or against, a specific candidate or party; America is, after all, a big country.

Instead, he saw how things worked from both sides of the fence, forging important links with American Democrats and Republicans alike.

Trying to make political gain out of such a visit strikes me as being a little bit desperate.

Alan Collins
from Twydall
Via email