Jonathan Bartley Biography
Jonathan Bartley is a British politician who served as Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2016 to 2018, first with Caroline Lucas and then with Siân Berry from 2018 to 2021. In the 2015 general election, he served as the Green Party’s national Work and Pensions spokesperson as well as its Parliamentary candidate for Streatham.
How old is Jonathan Bartley? – Age
He is 52 years old as of 16 October 2023. He was born in 1971 in London, United Kingdom. His real name is Jonathan Charles Bartley.
Jonathan Bartley Family
His father, Christopher Bartley, was an NHS consulting physician and Normandy veteran. Anthony Bartley, Bartley’s uncle, was a World War II Spitfire pilot and squadron leader who married actress Deborah Kerr. Bartley is the direct descendant of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry.
Jonathan Bartley Education
From 1980 to 1989, Bartley attended Dulwich College, a boarding independent school for boys in Dulwich, South London. At the age of seventeen, while still in school, Bartley hit and killed a young student while driving, but the death was ruled unintentional, and no charges were filed. After leaving school, Bartley attended the London School of Economics, where he earned a degree in social policy.
Jonathan Bartley Wife
Bartley and his wife Lucy have three children. In May 2017, Bartley made it known that he and Lucy were no longer together.
Jonathan Bartley Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £10 million.
Jonathan Bartley The Big Questions
He regularly contributes to BBC One’s The Big Questions. It aired live on BBC One on Sunday mornings, replacing The Heaven and Earth Show as the BBC’s religious discussion programme. The structure is loosely based on BBC One’s political discussion show Question Time, but it also includes features that are more common in daytime talk shows.
In the first four series, each presentation featured four panelists from various theological and ethical positions, as well as a number of live studio audience members. In Series 5, the panel was eliminated, and the arguments were held exclusively in the audience, which still included a number of contributors. The BBC cancelled the programme in 2021. Each week, the panel and audience discuss three ethical, moral, or religious issues raised in the news.
Jonathan Bartley Ekklesia
In 2002, Bartley co-founded Ekklesia, a Christian think tank that investigates “the changing role of beliefs, values, and faith/non-faith in public life”. In 2008, he co-founded the Accord Coalition, which seeks to eliminate religious prejudice and segregation in English and Welsh schools.
Jonathan Bartley Career
On 27 April 2010, while Bartley was holding on to go to a clinic arrangement at the Evelina Kids’ Emergency clinic with his child Samuel, a Moderate Party official inquired as to whether he might want to meet the-then Head of the Moderate Party, David Cameron. Bartley concurred and party authorities then, at that point, brought the Moderate chief over to meet them, en route to a vehicle after an Overall Political race occasion in South London.
Bartley affirmed that Moderate proclamation plans would expand the isolation of debilitated youngsters as it promised to “end the predisposition towards the consideration of kids with unique requirements in standard schools”. Alluding to his own two-year endeavor to acquire a spot for his child in a standard school, Bartley likewise inquired as to why the Moderate pronouncement didn’t say that the Traditionalists needed to energize kids into standard schools. Cameron said, “It totally says that sir, I guarantee you”. After the occasion Channel 4 FactCheck said that Cameron had been off-base.
The Everyday Message brought up that Bartley had been on The Ethical Labyrinth and was a normal observer in the media. Bartley said he was a “drifting citizen”, that he felt let somewhere near the principal parties and condemned the Work government over the issues of consideration. A short time later, Bartley turned into the seat of the Middle for Concentrates on Comprehensive Instruction (CSIE).
As a feature of the Moderate Liberal leftist alliance understanding following the 2010 general political decision, the two gatherings consented to an AV mandate on changing the technique for choosing MPs in resulting general races. A long-term ally of constituent change, Bartley was selected a bad habit seat of the authority cross-party YES! To More pleasant Votes crusade, acting chiefly as a media representative all through the mandate. After the mission, he joined the gathering of the Appointive Change Society, filling in as bad habit seat.
In 2012, Bartley was chosen as the Green Faction possibility for the Lambeth and Southwark body electorate for the London Get together decisions, prevailing upon 18,000 votes. Bartley additionally went about as the party’s press official for the London lobby. In 2014, Bartley challenged the St Leonard’s Ward on Lambeth Chamber as a Green up-and-comer. He completed in fifth spot.
Bartley hosts addressed the Green Get-together in the media, including the BBC’s government assistance banter at the 2015 general political decision, conflicting with then-Work and Annuities Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. Bartley was the Green Coalition possibility for the London supporters of Streatham in the political race, completing fourth and getting 4,421 votes (8.9%), up from the 1.8% the party got in 2010.
Bartley tried to be the party’s competitor in the 2016 London mayoral political race, however was crushed by Siân Berry. He was rather named in fourth put on the party’s rundown of possibility for the simultaneous London Get together races and assumed a functioning part in the mission.
On 31 May 2016, it was declared that Bartley would run for the place of the head of the Green Coalition in a task share plan with the previous pioneer Caroline Lucas in the impending 2016 Green Faction initiative political decision. He and Lucas therefore became co-pioneers on 2 September 2016. Bartley didn’t represent political decision at the 2017 general political race. Bartley was additionally the Work and Annuities representative for the Green Faction from 2016 to 2017.
On 3 May 2018, Bartley was chosen as a Green Coalition councilor for St Leonard’s Ward on Lambeth Committee. He completed as the runner up Green competitor. Soon thereafter he became head of the Green gathering and resistance on the Chamber.
On 30 May 2018, Caroline Lucas declared she wouldn’t look for re-appointment as co-head of the Green Faction in the party’s impending authority political decision. Bartley represented political decision as co-pioneer with Siân Berry and the two were fruitful. On 16 October 2019, his 48th birthday celebration, Bartley was captured by police while exhibiting with Termination Disobedience in Trafalgar Square.
Bartley again represented Parliament in the 2019 General Political decision in the electorate of Dulwich and West Norwood, completing second with 16.5% of the vote. This addressed a 14% increment in the party’s vote share, the biggest for any Green competitor in the country at that political race.
On 8 June 2020, Bartley declared his expectation to stand again as co-pioneer close by Berry. On 9 September, it was accounted for that Bartley and Berry had been reappointed, however with a diminished vote share.
Bartley was accounted for to have said that he actually upholds the restricting of halal butcher. He later apologized and explained his position saying he is against the experiencing caused during butcher on any un-shocked creatures, and perceiving that most of Halal butcher includes pre-staggering creatures.
In May 2021, Bartley was a signatory to an open letter from Beautician magazine, close by superstars and other well known people, which approached the public authority to address what it depicted as an “plague of male brutality” by subsidizing an “continuous, prominent, master informed mindfulness crusade on men’s savagery against ladies and young ladies”. In July 2021, Bartley reported that he would be remaining down as party co-pioneer later in the month, setting off an authority challenge.
Bartley is the drummer for English blues musical gang The Horses. The band is endorsed to the Acrobat music mark and has delivered ten collections, including a live collection and a ‘Best Of’. In June 2017 The Horses played the Glastonbury Celebration.