Yesterday, I attended a get together of local Conservative activists at a Thank you Party we had organised after the local election campaign. It was a good opportunity for helpers from different Wards to swap campaign stories and exchange best practice. I was particularly delighted as my third team Morecambe won the Conference play off to secure a place in the Football League for he first time in their history. This means that next season all the three teams I follow Rotherham, Bury and Morecambe will all be in the same division. I won’t have a Conference team to look out for next year which will seem strange I will have to have a think about adopting another Conference team to follow, I will most likely choose Northwich Victoria if for no other reason that for the last few seasons I frequently receive emails meant for their Secretary another D Nuttall!
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David Nuttall 
Sorry missed the one about the EPP-ED Group. Mr Cameron has not broken his promise at all the Party has laid out a clear timetable for leaving the Group. I support the principle that we should leave the Group but beause of the way the European Parliament works I understand why many feel we should be part of a larger grouping and that is what is being developed.
Clearly joining the EU has resulted in the loss of some sovereignty. Did you mean ‘ true of Europe’ ? by the way.
Mr Nuttall,
The Britain that Lord Nelson defended was able to fight and win a long difficult war because of its world-wide success in commerce, its inventiveness and rapid technical development and the stability and flexibility of its financial institutions. Which of these qualities do you think is true of Europe today? Or have we lost everything that Nelson sought to defend at Trafalgar, including our own sovereignty?
PS: I note you still haven’t answered my question about Mr Cameron and the EPP-ED group.
Mr Nuttall,
The Britain that Lord Nelson defended was able to fight and win a long difficult war because of its world-wide success in commerce, its inventiveness and rapid technical development and the stability and flexibility of its financial institutions. Which of these qualities do you think is true of Europe today? Or have we lost everything that Nelson sought to defend at Trafalgar, including our own sovereignty?
PS: I note you still haven’t answered by question about Mr Cameron and the EPP-ED group.
Mr Cameron was elected leader on the promise he would withdraw the Conservative Party from the EPP-ED group. Why has he now broken that promise?
I think that correspondence between a member of the public and a Member of Parliament should be priviliged and kept out of the public domain unless of course the individual wishes it to be published. In all other respects for example with regard to expenses then documents should be open to public scrutiny. I will happily disclose all details about any expenses that I may claim. The way I look at it is that it is public money and the public are entitled to see exactly how there money has been spent.
David Nuttall
Mr Nuttall,
The growing belief that MPs are above the law will have been strengthened by newspaper reports that the very architect of new secrecy laws acquired a quad bike on Parliamentary expenses paid for by the taxpayer.
Tory MP David Maclean’s mode of transport, supposedly to assist the backbencher to visit events in his predominantly rural constituency, merely confirms to me that his Private Members Bill is being driven by the need to prevent such extravagances (and others) being publicly published rather than any attempt to safeguard confidential letters written by members of the public.
What Mr Maclean, or his misguided supporters, fail to recognise, however, is that there are already exemptions in the existing Freedom of Information laws to protect correspondence, and that not one voter has reportedly complained to the Commons authorities about the inappropriate release of such letters.
Yet the most perplexing aspect of this scandal is how the Government has found so much time for the Private Members Bill to be deliberated, when other common-sense law changes put forward by MPs receive no such favours, and why so many senior Ministers are openly backing Mr Maclean.
In case the electorate has forgotten, it was the Labour Party that championed the need for greater transparency when in opposition. But, after Freedom of Information laws were used to expose its misdemeanours in power, it is now backtracking and even attempting to limit the number of requests for information that can be tabled by media organisations.
If David Cameron is serious about forming a government then I think he should ensure that Mr Maclean’s Bill, and other proposed changes, are defeated. Shamefully, this appears to be a forlorn hope as MPs continue to place their own self-interest first. It’s no wonder the electorate can’t be bothered to vote in the numbers they once did. What’s your view on the matter Mr Nuttall?