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Experts criticized the program as mere grandstanding by corporations and local officials.
The stakes on both sides are too high for diplomatic grandstanding.
From this point of view, grandstanding is all very well, but you have very little time in which to get up to speed.
This is not an issue for political grandstanding or, indeed, promoting pet projects.
Every time posturing and grandstanding is displayed before us, we know that the only beneficiaries are the enemies of democracy.
They are opposing it only because they are grandstanding on the issue.
I charge them with grandstanding and indulging in political gestures.
We need understanding rather than grandstanding and to appreciate that there is a limited purpose to any antiphony of blame.
All too often, the nationalists launch a grandstanding programme on issues such as this.
