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Hard to say what that compares to without more stats. Detroit is a troubled city atm too, that won't help.

66 were shot over the 4th July weekend last year... a 53% increase...

can anyone link me to an article on mps pay and payrises over the last 5 / 10 years ish

Basic salary in 2010/2011: £65,738.00
Basic salary in 2015/2016: £73,284.00

Source IPSA http://www.theipsa.org.uk/

I make that an average increase of about 2.2% a year

Apparently a 1.4% rise this year http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/24/mps-enjoy-1000-pay-risewhile-public-sector-workers-face-cap/

lynne trusse avoided the question in parliament yesterday when asked what her pay had rise by since the public sector pay freeze
she said it had gone up and down, mostly up by the looks of it though

Those numbers are absolutely insane.
I imagine 102 people hospitalised/14 dead from a disease outbreak would get more attention than this.

"102 people in Chicago visited emergency with X virus/bug over the 4th july weekend. 14 dead."

The Trump administration would no doubt announce The War on Bugs.

#hereallweek

The War on Bugs.

did lol, would rep

well colour me shocked.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/06/lion-of-london-bridge-filmed-spitting-on-black-man-and-ranting-about-foreign-cs-6759764/

I guess the positives you can take from that are that a racist man got stabbed

You hope his footy friends disown him!?

He's a Millwall fan FFS. They'll love this. I never ever want to be united with Millwall fans thanks.

The only team I've ever seen with fans* who celebrated a goal with a Nazi salute.

*A small number, but still

Maybe they exist, but are just too scared to go to the stadium which is why I've not seen them at the games.

A brief Google finds at least two incidents of multiple fans chanting racist insults investigated just last season.

Is that the march that the Pie and Mash Squad were promoting?

And was it the same Sikh guy who speaks at EDL rallies, and they use as their "look, we're not racist" smokescreen? Or has he left EDL now because he kept getting booed?

How much was said about the attack on Muslims in Finsbury Park earlier that week?

My dad's a life-long Millwall fan, and definitely not racist or a hooligan. (The only time I've even seen him raise his voice is in front of a classroom full of schoolkids!) I used to go to the Den on a regular basis, and by some measure I suppose I might still call myself a Millwall fan. It was my local team when I was growing up, so that's where I went to watch football.

I've been to the odd game on and off over the past few years, including Boxing Day games out of tradition, and a few play-off games at Wembley. The vast majority of fans are well behaved and I assume genuinely passionate about football and seeing their team win. BUT in a crowd of several thousand people, it only takes a few dozen (often more, but I'm sure reports are more often than not exaggerated in the media) to turn the atmosphere sour and create some headlines. I believe the club makes efforts to counter its reputation, including anti-racism initiatives, but I've personally seen some pretty vile behaviour on the terraces and it does put me off wanting to associate with some of the people who call themselves fans.

In fact, now my local team is Charlton. If I was significantly more interested in football than I actually am, I think I'd have no problem switching "allegiance" and going to Charlton regularly, because from my limited experience it's a much nicer atmosphere.

Was there any evidence for our Roy taking on three machete wielding jihadists with his bare fists?

All that chanting can really get on your nerves at a march. Though the pro-science one was good. "What do we want?" "Evidence based policy!" "When do we want it?" "After a peer review!".

I did think of trying to get one going last week at the Anti-May protest- "There's only two Diane Abbotts, six Diane Abbotts".

This is a great chant.

I'm going to start it next time I go to football.

I never go to football

So this happened.
https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/883276879796555777

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inb4 Sadiq Khanival.

pps. I was at some corporate reception a couple of weeks back at the Coq D'Argent (the 6th floor bar bankers seem to like jumping from) and towards the end Sadiq turned up with his wife and made a beeline to the back to buy a glass of wine in private. Unfortunately the reception was on the other side of a window, and we all waved drunkenly at him calling 'Sadiq!' Unsurprisingly he ran away again.

CSB etc.

That wasn't my question

I was asking whether there was any evidence.