Former Conservative MP for Don Valley. 2025 Mayoral candidate for Doncaster.
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Think Britain’s in a mess?
My book The Revival says there’s hope. 👇 Link in the comments.
#TheRevival #TheRevivalBook #NickFletcher
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Two Articles. One Theme: The Erosion of Britain’s History and Culture
Erasing Churchill and the Bible is not the way to bring our country together.
A nation without a shared history, shared values and the freedom to discuss them openly is a nation that risks losing its identity.
If those in positions of influence cannot understand why ordinary people are concerned about this, then we are in serious trouble as a nation.
Articles in comments below.👇
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I was saddened to hear of the passing of Sir Alan Haselhurst.
During my time in Parliament, I was privileged to share many morning coffees in the Tea Room with Sir Alan. He was a true gentleman kind, wise, and always generous with his time and advice.
I remember him recommending a book to me, England, Their England, and telling me to read the chapter on "The Village Cricket Match". I did, and it was every bit as funny as he promised.
He served Parliament and his constituents with distinction for many decades and earned respect from all sides of the House.
I missed our chats after I left Parliament and will remember him with great affection.
My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this sad time.
Rest in peace, Sir Alan.
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When a Nation’s Good Men Are Silenced, Evil Will Prevail
The events of this week have highlighted something that has been troubling me for a long time.
For years, anyone who stood against the new cultural norms being created risked being labelled a sexist, then a racist, then a homophobe, then a transphobe. Too often there was no discussion, no debate and no attempt to understand why someone might hold a different view.
White working-class men, especially those of us in middle age, were told to keep quiet or risk being marginalised, abused, losing their jobs, or simply being dismissed as part of the problem.
Even Christians were told to be quiet, and stop being ‘Bible bashers.’
The result has been silence for many.
Millions of decent people have stopped speaking. They have watched as accusations have too often been accepted without question. Many have concluded that keeping their heads down is easier than speaking up.
Even some mainstream churches have chosen to adapt parts of their message to fit the new liberal norm rather than standing firmly on biblical truth and spreading the good word.
The result is that white working-class boys are falling behind in school. Young men are struggling with mental health, loneliness and a lack of purpose. Too often they are portrayed as the problem rather than people who need support, encouragement and strong role models.
Well, it has to stop.
We must all find our voices again. We do not want special treatment. We simply want fairness, truth and the right to speak without fear of being labelled.
This is a Christian country built upon Christian values. We should not be ashamed to say so. Good men are not the problem. Good men are fathers, husbands, brothers, protectors and role models. Society needs them now more than ever.
My heart goes out to every soul lost and every family left grieving. We must learn the lessons from these tragedies, speak honestly about the problems we face, and have the courage to speak out for what we believe.
Enough silence.
Enough fear.
We now need loud voices and courage.
It is time to stand up and be counted.
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Jun 2
Keir Starmer, @olivercoppard @MayorRos and the rest of this shambles that calls itself the Labour Party are not your friends. They never have been, and they never will be.
Their priorities are not the priorities of hardworking taxpayers. Their priorities are higher benefits, higher taxes and their own political agendas.
The country cannot afford this, and it cannot afford any of them as leaders.
I keep saying it: the rest of the country is now witnessing what Doncaster and South Yorkshire have suffered for years.
It has to stop. Article in link 👇
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Nick Fletcher retweeted
May 22
“Finally, there are no more excuses.”
🧵@MForstater quoted across the papers on the EHRC’s updated code of practice, beginning with @Daily_Express #BuyAPaper
express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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May 22
Hiking Costs on British Farmers and businesses, Then Suspending Food Tariffs. You Really Couldn’t Make It Up
So they put up the minimum wage.
They increase National Insurance contributions.
They put up business rates.
They impose huge Net Zero costs.
They bring forward a Workers’ Rights Bill that makes employing people harder and riskier.
Then they ask supermarkets to cap prices.
But supermarket prices are not just set by supermarkets, they’re set by suppliers too. So businesses get squeezed from every angle until some eventually go bust.
And now the answer appears to be reducing tariffs and importing more food from abroad.
I don’t generally support tariffs, but suspending over 100 import tariffs after the economic policies this government has already put in place and in the same week they are discussing price caps is beyond the pale.
They are either economically clueless, or they simply do not care about the damage being done to British farmers, the wider UK food industry and our SMEs.
You really couldn’t make it up.
Article in comments below 👇
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May 22
Supermarket price cap risks putting dairy farmers out of business telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Nick Fletcher retweeted
I’m sick to death of language describing women, girls & mothers being removed, when this doesn’t happen to men’s language. I’m sick to death of women’s sport being wrecked when it doesn’t happen to men’s. I’m sick to death of men validating their delusion in women’s intimate spaces, making women & girls extremely uncomfortable & intimidated. I loath this latest version of misogyny, and I despise the women who give away our hard won rights, safeguards & opportunities. Today was a good day!
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1/2 Britain Is Not Ungovernable
A Message to Our Leaders… And Then a Message to Ourselves
I heard it said recently that Britain is becoming ungovernable.
We are not.
People simply want leaders who know how to lead.
Leaders who listen to the people.
I remember Simon Cowell once saying, “The people are always right.” And in so many ways, they are.
We therefore need leaders who listen, then set a clear goal for the country, lay out a strategy to achieve it, and be humble enough to learn both from history and from the wisdom of those who have gone before them.
To carry out that plan, we need leaders with an indomitable spirit.
But most of all, we need leaders who tell the truth, often the truth people do not want to hear, but the truth nevertheless.
Listen to the people.
Set the goal.
Tell the truth.
Never give in.
That is leadership.
But there is something even more important.
Every human leader will fail at times.
Every politician is flawed.
That is why the person at the very top must not only listen to and be accountable to the people they serve, but also have a faith to lean on, especially when the decisions are hardest and the pressure is greatest.
A leader who only leans on advisers, donors, polling or popularity will eventually blow with the wind.
A leader who leans on Christ, and stands for truth, morality, duty and something eternal, will withstand the turbulence the country and the world throw at them.
That does not mean they will never fail.
But it gives them a compass.
It gives them foundations to stand firm.
We do not need perfect leaders.
We need leaders with an indomitable spirit and a faith in Jesus Christ.
And when we have that leader…
We will not be ungovernable.
We will happily be governed.
And we will all prosper together once more.
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2/2 Britain Is Not Ungovernable
A Message to Ourselves
We are not ungovernable, and I believe we want to be governed.
In my first post, I set out what I believe we want from our leaders.
But if we want to be governed well, we have a role too.
We must let politicians know what we want. We must do so coherently and without abuse.
And we must also be realistic in our expectations and understand that we cannot have everything.
We share this nation with many people we may not immediately see as friends and in some cases they may not be, but we must still give each other a chance.
We never asked for huge immigration. We never asked for deindustrialisation. We never asked for huge debt. We never asked for many of the problems we now face. But if we are to move forward, we must accept where we are and accept that we cannot carry on as we are.
Government’s main role, after keeping us safe, is spending our money wisely.
That means we must educate ourselves on the basics of sound economics.
Yes, sometimes the rich get richer. But the alternative is often that we all get poorer.
Ideology often refuses to accept this.
But if we want truthful politicians, rather than politicians who simply tell us we can have everything, then we must understand basic economics and accept that sometimes decisions which appear unfair are still the right decisions.
We must also play our part in work, family and community.
That means:
If we can work, we do work and we do honest work.
If we can help others, we help.
If we have families, we put them before ourselves.
We start looking after where we live again, our homes, our towns and our workplaces.
We stay away from what we know is not good for us.
And we put personal responsibility before almost everything else.
If we want to be governed well, we must first govern ourselves well.
If we do not want constant state interference, we must reduce the need for it.
If we want free speech, we must use our voices wisely.
If we want law and order, we must obey the law ourselves.
If we want good jobs, we must value and protect our jobs.
If we want an NHS, we must all use it responsibly.
If we want a safety net of benefits, it must remain a safety net, not become a permanent way of life.
If we do not want schools teaching our children morality, then we must teach them our morals ourselves.
If we want a nation to be proud of, with strong armed forces and secure borders, then we must accept that taxes are inevitable.
But if we want taxes spent wisely, then we must use our vote wisely too.
And if we want a British culture, we must support it.
Go to church.
Spend on our high streets.
And yes, support our pubs and clubs.
We want to be governed well.
So first, we must again learn to govern ourselves well.
My hope is that we do!
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May 21
Her lack of understanding of basic economics is staggering.
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Up a Gum Tree
When an airport has lost between £4m and £20m every year for the past 20 years…
When you are tied to a lease that takes 20% of your turnover above a £3.3m base rent…
When you own no real asset at the end of it all, just the lease itself…
When the options now appear to be either lose £50m or risk losing £193m plus undoubtedly far more over time…
Then my friend and Conservative Councillor @NickAllen1987 is right.
Doncaster is “up a gum tree.”
And the frightening part is, we never needed to be here.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our Labour Mayor, an executive team that appear to have replaced sound commercial judgement with ideology and political considerations, and sadly too many voices across Doncaster’s political and business community who, in my opinion, have underestimated the risks involved.
Councillor Cynthia Ransome is also right.
Secretary of State intervention is now needed, and it cannot come soon enough.
This should never have become a publicly funded vanity project driven more by politics than business reality.
The people of Doncaster deserve far better than this.
Sadly, with this Labour administration, it is the same outcome time and time again.
Article in link below 👇
@MyDoncaster
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May 14
trib.al/9vLmCdD "Up a gum tree": Doncaster Sheffield Airport council spending will go beyond £193m, Tories warn
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This made me smile… then I thought about how catastrophic her tenure has been for the people of Doncaster.
The Mayor who, in my opinion, has overseen the decline of our market, our city centre, many of our towns and villages, the closure of our airport, and now what I fear could become a huge long-term financial burden on Doncaster taxpayers, is calling on someone else to resign.
You really could not make it up.
NEW: Doncaster's veteran Labour Mayor, Ros Jones, has said Keir Starmer now needs to "reconsider his position" as Prime Minister
Jones made national headlines when she warned the PM to "listen" to the people after poor 2025 local election results
Now, she's calling on him to go
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May 12
Labour’s Stephen Kinnock says they are the party of working people.
They are not.
They are the party of Benefit Street, Net Zero ideology, and the liberal elite who can afford the consequences of the policies they push on everyone else.
Working people are the ones paying higher energy bills, higher taxes, higher rents, and watching jobs disappear while being lectured by politicians completely detached from reality.
And as for illegal immigration, the British public have made their feelings clear time and time again. They want control of our borders, enforcement of the law, and a government that puts its own citizens first.
This government has lost the confidence of huge parts of the country.
Time to go Keir Starmer
And take these colleagues with you:
@Ed_Miliband
@olivercoppard
@MayorRos
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May 11
Great to be on TalkTV.
The resignations began halfway through my interview. I said before Christmas that Keir Starmer would be gone by July, and I stand by it.
If only @SouthYorksMayor Oliver Coppard and @MayorRos Jones would go too, then maybe Doncaster and our country might finally stand a chance.
🚨BREAKING: Ministerial aide Tom Rutland -Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Environment Sec - has resigned, in the biggest move yet against Keir Starmer.
"This is when it all starts to fall apart!"
@TVKev
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The country spoke. But nothing will change until they both go.
Once again the country is witnessing what we in Doncaster have had to deal with for years.
Incompetence. Political games. Leadership failing the very people they are supposed to serve.
And when more and more people call for them to resign, they ignore it, double down on the failures, and drag the places and the people they are meant to serve further into the mess with them.
Please, for the sake of our country and Doncaster, just both go.
@SirKeirStarmer
@MayorRos
@MyDoncaster
@LabourParty
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