Open for Business 2
Those who read my recent rant about the new security arrangements at Stormont Open for Business? will know that I am not averse to giving the Assembly a kick when I don't think they are proving sufficiently accessible.
However I think it's only fair that I should congratulate those members of staff who helped Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Ulster's "Good Morning Ulster" team with their extensive outside broadcast this morning. I thought the programme provided a good insight into various aspects of the Assembly building, from the canteen to the shop to the educational tours. It's lucky that the recent restrictions put in place around the building refer only to filming, not radio, or it would have been more of a headache to produce.
During the programme, the Culture Minister Edwin Poots talked about statues important to unionists which he said " were blew up" in the past. Subsequently a caller on the Nolan show took him to task for his grammar.
I see that a recent commenter on this blog also criticised John O'Dowd's grammar.
It's true that, as a contributor to Nolan argued, communication is extremely important and some of our MLAs are not exactly gifted with Martin Luther King type rhetorical skills.
But having interviewed Edwin Poots and watched him handle various committee hearings I think that, in general, he is quite a good communicator. Maybe this one has been "blew" out of all proportion.
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