So let us remind ourselves that, when you are in a political party, publicly offered "constructive criticism" is only ever destructive.
Writing in the Observer, she calls for an end to weeks of sniping against the Labour leader by high-ranking figures including former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, saying that disloyalty could break the party and that "publicly offered constructive criticism is only ever destructive".
There is, however, nothing constructive in publicly delivering 'helpful advice' which could be much better delivered quietly in private.
There is, however, nothing constructive in publicly delivering "helpful advice" that could be much better delivered quietly in private.
On the other hand, if you did it out of a misguided belief that it was needed, assess why you had such a hotheaded reaction and felt that there was a need to broadcast your anger/irritation/frustration publicly, without finding more constructive routes of resolution.
Mr. Burns publicly called his meeting with Mr. Arafat a "constructive discussion" of how to carry out the Mitchell report's suggestions, but an American official later suggested privately that the meeting was not all that constructive.
We now discover that yesterday, when Liberal Democrat spokesmen were still saying publicly 'talks are going very well, very constructive, just a bit of clarification required,' it now turns out he was having secret meetings with Gordon Brown.
Even the agents in hockey were far more willing to consider constructive alternatives and were on occasion publicly critical of the union's no-holds-barred negotiating stance.
"I intend to start a constructive debate in Canada, and I will speak publicly about the shortcomings of the Harper government in this regard, so that in the future, someone else won't end up in this horrific situation".
In January the BMA chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, publicly voiced his frustration that, despite the BMA making detailed and constructive criticisms of the bill in response to the Department of Health, Lansley did not respond directly to the doctors' criticisms.
