It isn't often that you laugh out loud while reading the daily parliamentary bulletin of early day motions (the parliamentary device MPs use to highlight causes close to their hearts), but today is an exception.
Former cheeky boy Lembit Öpik has tabled a motion entitled "Segways and the snow".
The Liberal Democrat MP and Segway enthusiast notes that, "unlike Vienna's transport system, London's public and private transport system can be brought to a virtual standstill by about eight inches of frozen water; further notes that the Segway personal transporter is legal in Vienna; believes that more people would have got to work in the snow if Segways were widely used for commuting in the UK; and calls on the government to legalise Segways before the east wind blows again."
You have to hand it to the Montgomeryshire MP – he is persistent.
