Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧

Conservative councillor for Greenhill. Also tweet about other stuff. Chair, @FULofPride.

Promoted by Chris Baxter of Harrow West CA, 10 Village Way, HA5 5AF.

[Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @RhysBenjamin]

🚨 IN FULL AND UNCUT 🚨

🎉 My maiden speech at @harrow_council, laying into the Mayor of London's Draft London Plan.
🏘️ We need to build more houses, but outer London is not inner London.
🚂 The designation of "well-connected" stations is deeply inaccurate.

@HAConservatives @HarrowWestCA @CityHallTories @Councillorsuzie

[Robby Richmond @Robbyrichmond]

I wish Sean Lock were alive to see Russell Brand behind bars. He hated that man with a purity of spirit rarely witnessed

[Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @RhysBenjamin]

@sharperfrontier @Jacob_Rees_Mogg It’s not a hypothetical, because that’s how the Ryan Giggs story came out in 2011: John Hemmings used privilege to break it. https://t.co/hu9DSbK8r5

[Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @RhysBenjamin]

Every time I see a 1993 onboard my eyes are transfixed on the active suspension.

[Legendary F1 💎 🏁 @LegendarysF1]

Onboard Ayrton Senna / McLaren Ford V8 / GP Mónaco 1993.

📹: FOM.

#F1

[Benjamin Butterworth @benjaminbutter]

🚨 I cannot keep quiet any longer.

This week has been deeply distressing as horrific claims of sexual abuse in entertainment and comedy surfaced.

The media has been in a tailspin to claim shock at these allegations.

I have tried to stop myself, but I cannot say nothing as I watch highly paid, powerful national journalists opine on the wrongs of sexual abusers, while doing absolutely nothing about the abuser in their own backyard.

One of the most prolific sexual abusers in British public life is hiding in plain sight among the media.

I have heard allegations of this man’s sexual abuse going back 25 years. 

Tens of men have come forward to me to allege how he abused them.

Stories like being forced to sign an NDA after this man demanded they expose his penis when asking for a promotion. 

The man who rang me in tears, holding his wife’s hand, as he described being groped at a party conference and later sexually harassed.

The man who said he tried to force them to perform oral sex after he stripped all his clothes off unrequested when they went for a drink in a hotel.

The man who was in his first graduate job and was asked, out of nowhere, by this old man: “how will my spunk taste on the back of your throat?”

Tomorrow, this man will walk into his workplace, his colleagues knowing exactly what type of behaviour he is accused of. They will do absolutely nothing to stop him, while telling each other how terrible these stories of abuse are.

Some of the best known faces in British news - BBC and commercial broadcasters, national newspaper columnists and editors - will continue to sit with him at book tours, on TV shows and invite him to their Christmas parties.

Then they will turn up at work and claim to you, the viewers and readers, that they cannot understand why people do not speak out in their industry and how such abuse happens.

My industry, the media, is dominated by the vacuous and weak willed who want all the ego and profit of national profile, but take none of the responsibilities of their positions when it involves someone they know.

That is why this keeps happening. And it has not changed.

[Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @RhysBenjamin]

Nvidia? I barely know her!

[Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @RhysBenjamin]

So when will @tomhfh apply to the approved list, then?

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Energy Sec Miatta Fahnbulleh in choppy waters these days, how good are her political instincts on which she must now rely? Her 2019 Brexit predictions from when she was a think tanker offer some clues...

[Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @RhysBenjamin]

I knew I was gay at 14.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Furthermore, please stop describing CHILDREN as "lesbian, gay or bisexual". Children do not have sexual orientations. They are children. If you mean young people whose sexuality is emerging, make that clear. You of all people should have learnt to be extremely careful about this.

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

.@alancampbellmp, as Leader of the House, you should know upholding the integrity of Parliament matters. Instead, you resort to telling lies.

That is a breach of the Ministerial Code - a resigning matter.

As the then junior minister responsible for financial services regulation, I was not remotely an ‘author’ of the mini-budget. I did not see it until the night before.

At the same time, your party was calling for EVEN MORE spending on people’s energy bills.

I got into politics to tell the truth and fix the country after 26 years in business. What did you get into it for?

[Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @RhysBenjamin]

@YahYah_Gunn @englandcricket Yeah. We got hammered in the ODIs 3-0, largely because we replaced a batter (Morgan) with a bits-and-pieces player (Ali), were too light on batting as a result, and yet we still deluded ourselves we’d be competitive in the World Cup in 12 months’ time. Sound familiar?

[Paul McGinnes @McGF192]

1994 Australian GP: Damon Hill laps the Adelaide Street Circuit in his Wlliams FW16. #F1

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

Britain has a choice.

Support Palestinian voices who want justice and Israeli voices who have said enough. Or allow British aid to be weaponised by Hamas.

It is time to recognise what Hamas has done. If you stand with the Palestinian people you stand against Hamas.

[Cllr Rhys Benjamin 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @RhysBenjamin]

@englandcricket I’d rather not, thanks.

[Kevin Ghateh @KevinGhateh]

London’s young people deserve someone in their corner. That’s why I’m backing @JamesCleverly

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Energy Sec Miatta Fahnbulleh in choppy waters these days, how good are her political instincts on which she must now rely? Her 2019 Brexit predictions from when she was a think tanker offer some clues...

[Patrick Kidd @patrick_kidd]

When James Anderson opens the bowling for Surrey at home next year it will be his first County Championship match at the Oval since 2003. Indeed, that is his only one. He took the first five Surrey wickets to fall in that match so he's got 24 years of making-up to do

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

I'm not sure what the Guardian's complaint is here. That the Home Office shouldn't be trying to look for people who are in the country illegally?

#WhatsWrongWithFishing🎣

[Charity Commission @ChtyCommission]

We’ve issued an official warning to Lewisham Islamic Centre for “inflammatory” comments, requiring the charity to improve it's handling of speakers and events hosted at its premises.

Read more: https://t.co/xUXRNY8h2Y

[Surrey Cricket @surreycricket]

See you in April, Surrey fans. 👊

Another great of the game will call the Kia Oval home. 🏡

🤎 | #SurreyCricket

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

- Admitted 80 counts of theft
- Granted bail
- Breached bail and kept stealing from the same shop
- Banned from Lambeth
- Ankle bracelet was never fitted
- Breached the ban
- Failed to attend three sentencing hearings
- STILL spared jail
This makes a mockery of all of us.

[Neil Garratt AM @NeilGarratt]

Shoplifter treats Greggs like her personal larder, admits stealing from them 80 times. Law says "Yeah, that's fine actually."

I wonder why we have a shoplifting problem? Total mystery.