Silas Bartlett

Passionate about fatherhood, the environment, politics, housing, cyber security and Chelsea FC!🥩🍳

[Toby Harnden @tobyharnden]

A somber anniversary, 23 years on - R.I.P. Mike Spann.

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

As Rachel Reeves prepares to defend her budget (again), this week to the CBI, the ever-growing list of businesses, organisations and groups impacted by it illustrates just how poor it is.

Labour have eschewed growth in favour of a sugar rush tax grab that is clearly backfiring.

[Silas Bartlett @bartlett_silas]

@Osint613 Love your posts, keep it up.

[Silas Bartlett @bartlett_silas]

@TheBrekkyClub ordered my usual bacon and egg bap to takeaway. Was initially told it wasn’t possible anymore and I could only order a burger at 07:30.. was the told it was possible only to open the box at my desk to discover this.. why are simple things so hard these days! 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

On BBC #PoliticsLive today I discussed the impact of Labour railroading through their energy infrastructure plans across Cambridgeshire to the detriment of local villages.

Their plans offer no benefit to our rural communities, but Labour will try to force them through anyway.

[Sunil Sharma 🇬🇧 @SunilSharmaUK]

I went on the BBC to argue that Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) training in schools and workplaces is counterproductive, showing it degrades people of color & it unfairly burdens white people. I wanted to give examples how Indians on average are most likely to be managers & how white boys are performing the worst at schools in the UK.

I was repeatedly shouted down by Narinder live on TV then she shouted about me off stage. She later posted an Instagram rant calling me “unhinged” and “crazy,” leading to me receiving online abuse & death threats from her followers.

Narinder anger came from the fact she couldn’t use her usual race card as we share the same skin colour. Good to see the nationwide exposure of who she really is since horrible comments about Kate Middleton. There are far more incredible women who deserve more attention than this racial grifter clown.

The truth will always prevail. I won’t be silenced. Anyhow here’s the full clip below 👇

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

Under Keir Starmer Labour are cutting funding for the Reducing Veteran Homelessness programme by 12.5% compared to the previous Conservative Government.

Announcing that cut by trying to pass it off as new support on Remembrance Weekend shows how little veterans mean to Labour.

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

“Does the Prime Minister really think it’s acceptable for a backbench MP to suggest that the Leader of the Opposition represents “White supremacy in blackface”? If he doesn’t, why hasn’t he removed the whip?”

Weak from the Prime Minister at #PMQs.

He won’t address racial slurs.

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

Great to see the new Shadow Cabinet announced this morning. A top team that brings together our talent from across the Parliamentary party.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

This is leadership 👏

@DonnaJonesPCC has put the Prime Minister and Home Secretary to shame. This one letter sums it up.

I encourage everyone to read it, especially Labour MPs and government ministers. They won’t, and clearly aren’t, getting better advice anywhere else.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

As he launches his leadership bid, the former security minister says he can unite the Conservatives and the country — and issues security warning over China ⬇️

[Silas Bartlett @bartlett_silas]

Love this! 💙

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

Reece James always wears his socks backwards with the Chelsea lion on the front. 👀

[Silas Bartlett @bartlett_silas]

Tom Tugendhat has a 'clear plan' to 'win back the trust' of British voters | Politics | News | https://t.co/8Gm8new9gS https://t.co/ba2V0ZlD6K

[Silas Bartlett @bartlett_silas]

@BenObeseJecty

[Silas Bartlett @bartlett_silas]

Tom Tugendhat enters the Tory leadership race | The Spectator #uniterebuildwin https://t.co/fkv3Ta53Z2

[Silas Bartlett @bartlett_silas]

@BellaWallerstei https://t.co/2BGOt60Y1z

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

It pains me to write this… but nothing has changed and nothing has been learned since I first experienced full-scale rioting where I then lived - Handsworth, Birmingham - four decades ago. Like this the spark was cross-community policing/authority and the result was a ramp up of senseless vandalism and violence. Mindless. In Handsworth two brothers who ran the local Post Office were murdered by arson.

People on Twitter need to bear in mind that we have two different challenges:

First, there is the immediate imperative of trying to becalm Harehills to prevent further violence. Tonight… tomorrow… the next day… Lives could depend on this. I spoke to @Wayne_Dixon this morning and all @SDPhq Councillors have praised the local members in Harehills for trying to do this. They don’t want their community going up in flames. That’s the responsible thing to do and they deserve credit 👏.

Secondly, we need to find ways of pulling our society together in the long term. Getting us to ‘sing together’ as Lee Kuan Yew would say (his devotion to building social solidarity was forged as a witness to deathly inter-racial riots of pre-independence Malaya). Beware politicians mouthing simplistic slogans such ‘diversity is strength’. I’m afraid it’s going to take much more work than that… we might start by having an actual policy on social integration.

One thing is for sure…
we can’t go in like this…

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

The football was amazing last night and we are so blessed to have brilliant commentators in the UK.

John Hunt is one of the best and his world was ripped apart yesterday when his wife and daughters were murdered.

Mark Chapman knows himself how brutal life can be at times. Give yourself a moment to listen to how he introduced the football after the news about his colleague and friend had just been reported in the bulletin before he started 💔

[Silas Bartlett @bartlett_silas]

@BenObeseJecty Congratulations Ben!