Get off my scroll event, mofo.

Yeah I thought it was very cool, all you need is the up and down arrow keys, or the scroll wheel.

What do you normally use?

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/

This is an excellent, if thoroughly depressing, review of all the ways Millennials are thoroughly and dangerously screwed by the modern housing, jobs, and healthcare systems. It's written about America but Britain is not so different, I fear.

PHILIP Davies has prompted laughter in the Commons this afternoon with a joke on Theresa May's Cabinet reshuffle.

MPs are now back in Westminster following the Christmas break and the outspoken Conservative Shipley MP joked he would need to "get in quick" with his question "before the Prime Minister's inevitable call".

His quip was met with amusement from fellow MPs.

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15814361.Shipley_MP_Philip_Davies_prompts_laughter_with_Cabinet_reshuffle_quip/



Oh, how we laughed.

Mr Trump won't be visiting the UK because he doesn't like the new embassy. And not, of course, because he's worried he'll be as welcome as a hog roast at a vegan wedding.

In other news, the Radio 4 newsreader just said 'shithole'.

For what was believed to be the first time in history, a peer said “Cunt” while speaking in the House of Lords yesterday.

Mr Trump won't be visiting the UK because he doesn't like the new embassy. And not, of course, because he's worried he'll be as welcome as a hog roast at a vegan wedding.

Mr Trump won't be visiting the UK because he doesn't like the new embassy. And not, of course, because he's worried he'll be as welcome as a hog roast at a vegan wedding.

In other news, the Radio 4 newsreader just said 'shithole'.

If I was at a vegan wedding I'd bloody love a hog roast.

Shipley MP Philip Davies has urged the Government to team up with Bradford Council to help out rough sleepers in Shipley.

The Conservative politician also said the local authority’s focus should be on affordable housing in and around Bradford city centre, rather than more expensive homes on greenbelt land.

Not that surprised, there's hardly anything there to disagree with

He's an odd one. He's got a history of really quite unpleasant opinions, but actually seems to be quite committed to doing good things locally.

The rise in homelessness over the past few years is, I think, one of the biggest political failures and social tragedies of the past few years. Not trying to start a cuts/austerity/bankers fight (we've done that too much and I'd rather post pictures of bears) but more a case that we've let the infrastructure and support networks dwindle as each operator (government; councils; health; police etc) reduce or remove their bit and not dealing with the knock-on effects on other services. I'm generally against over centralisation but this is one issue where a more joined-up or central approach is necessary.

"If you don't vote Labour the Tories will get in you monster"

That really makes me angry. It's a flat-out lie, it's anti-democratic, and it reeks of desperation.

That really makes me angry. It's a flat-out lie, it's anti-democratic, and it reeks of desperation.

It's nothing to do with the sitting government. It's to do with "Yeah, you're not voting X, but unless you vote Y you might as well be voting for X." which isn't true, and isn't how democracy should be.

Yeah, but even with PR then you could still say that you had to vote for the "least worst" option if you decided to frame it in negative terms. If someone is "only voting X to keep Y out" then that surely means that there is something about X's policies that they prefer.

Yeah, but even with PR then you could still say that you had to vote for the "least worst" option if you decided to frame it in negative terms. If someone is "only voting X to keep Y out" then that surely means that there is something about X's policies that they prefer.

Sure, you do prefer X to Y, but you prefer Z to both, only the very idea of voting for Z is couched as a vote for Y.

Indeed. Stupid FPTP.

In other news, top shark hater Mr DJ Trump might come to the UK later in the year. You can write your own President's Club joke, before the Now Show does it anyway.

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/958729818777976832

I wish some of the other folk in there would be as quick to resign. Although it does rather look like making any excuse to get the hell out of there.

Order. Just before the Secretary of State responds to the shadow Secretary of State, I must say to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Turner), who, in his usual fashion, yelled, “It’s a disgrace,” from a sedentary position, that this morning I conducted my weekly Skype session with school students from the Education Centre. They were students of the Herne Bay primary school, one of whom asked me, “Mr Speaker, is there a Member who is particularly cheeky in terms of loud and repeated heckling?” I said, “Well, seeing as you ask, there is a chap called Karl Turner, who is a very agreeable fellow, but he does tend to go from nought to 60 in about five seconds.” I proceeded to educate the pupils of that primary school class in the favoured expressions of the hon. Gentleman—“Shocking” and “It’s a disgrace”—and his ritual exhortation, which fortunately I have not heard today to a Minister, to wit “be’ave”, which he makes while conspicuously failing to do so himself.

Train news now. Virgin East Coast (which is only 10% Branson and 90% Stagecoach) has lost its franchise after overbidding and running up losses of over £200 million. Reading the statement it suggests the government are open to returning to having a public operator on the line but I wouldn't be surprised if their 'assessment' rules this out.

Mr Speaker was in a catty mood:

At what loint should one stop tolerating aggressive begging and discarded needles?