David Nuttall M.P. - Bury North

Grexit

David Nuttall — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:32:24 +0000

Not so long ago when a Conservative Backbencher suggested Greece and more importantly the Greek people would be better off outside the Eurozone they were laughed at and derided as being the usual right-wing suspects – not in touch with reality. Odd isn’t it now the reality of the failure of the single currency is beginning to loom into closer view how what was once an occasionally mentioned ‘rant’ from a right-wing Eurosceptic is now rapidly becoming the accepted norm. The fact is that without a massive change of heart from the richer nations within the Eurozone the orderly exit of Greece from the Eurozone is becoming more likely by the day.

Grexit+Greece + Exit from the Eurozone

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Granada ITV visit

David Nuttall — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:12:48 +0000

David behind the bar at The Rovers Return Coronation Street

As part of my course on broadcasting media being organised through the IPT I spent most of today visiting the ITV in Manchester home to many of our best loved television including of cours Coronation Street now in its 52nd year. I spent time discussing several different aspects of the Companies business including its commercial activities and how the business is developing in the face of the huge increase in the number of digital channels.

Queen’s Speech debate

David Nuttall — Thu, 10 May 2012 08:42:55 +0000

After the pomp and ceremony of the State Opening of Parliament yesterday and the delivery of the Queen’ s Speech today sees the start of five full days of Parliamentary debate on the content of the speech. Each day will have a different theme but at the end of it nothing will have changed and it seems to me the debate simply gives MP’s on both sides of the House an opportunity to say what a good job the Government is doing or what a rotten job the Government is doing and how it would all be different under Labour. I think I can safely predict taht the votes at the end of the Queens Speech will be easily won by the Government and then the real work can start on implementing the programme. Personally I support most of the Bills although I do not see why we need to establish yet another Quango to regulate shops and I think the Bill to reform the House of Lords is an unnecessary distraction.

Apologies to those who had difficulty registering to follow me on Twitter yesterday there was a glitch which I have hopefully corrected. Just a tick box needed unchecking!

Twitter

David Nuttall — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:02:35 +0000

For those who are interested I will now be reporting/commenting etc via the Twitter platform. I can be followed on Twitter at @davidnuttallmp

Whilst I have had my doubts as to the usefulness of Twitter I accept that many people use the medium to keep in touch with what is happening. No one is forced to follow anyone else and whilst there are always pitfalls in publishing anything I hope to be able to avoid some of the mistakes that others have fallen into. I will not be using any automation and all tweets will be published by me personally so if anything goes wrong I will have only myself to blame!

I have been considering whether to start “tweeting” for sometime and I thought it would make logical sense to start on the first day of the new Parliamentary session.

Queen’s Speech

David Nuttall — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:54:19 +0000

I am back in London today and there is a definite ‘first day of term’ feeling about Parliament. I have done a couple of interviews for local radio this morning and the Queens Speech will take place around 11.30am. The security arrangements have all changed with the blockades being removed and the streets around Parliament being closed to traffic and in many cases to pedestrians too.

As to what will be in the Queen’s Speech I think most measures will be welcomed and as they will all ahve been agreed with the Liberal Democrats I suspect there will not be too many Bills which are particularly controversial. Except of course the Liberal Democrat plans to try and bring about a major constitutional change in the way the House of Lords is elected and operates. There will no doubt be plenty of opportunities in the months ahead for blog posts on Lords reform so I will not start down that path today suffice to say two things. Firstly, I do not sense any great desire among the voters of Bury North for Parliament to spend months on such a matter when there are far more important issues to consider. Secondly, no one ever seems to be able to explain how the proposed reforms will improve the work of the House of Lords.