Charlotte Nichols MP

Me dressed as Jessie from Team Rocket in the Pokémon series

The traditional Purim spiel at my synagogue

Me and one of my friends in our costumes at shul

Some of the food at synagogue, including these falafel and pickle rolls which was kind of an inside joke from the megillah reading

The Purim x Pokémon 30th anniversary crossover event you didn't know you needed.

"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight"

And yes, I captured a child dressed as Pikachu at synagogue tonight. Chag Purim Sameach! ✡️

Your dream self has the good sense to avoid Euston station at any price haha

A group of women and children posing together covered in the colourful paint powder that is synonymous with the festival. Someone in the background is also holding up a purple flare

Cllr Kuldeep Dhillon laughing with paint on his face

Two women throwing colourful paint powder

A selfie with paint on my face having been decorated by some of the little ones

Happy Holi to everyone celebrating!

It was a joy to be invited to join the Indian British Group of Warrington today in Woolston to take part in celebrations for the festival - full of colour, dancing, music, fantastic cultural presentations from the children & of course some excellent food too! 🇬🇧🇮🇳

Me outside the St Helen's RFC stadium, and yes I am indeed wearing the Warrington Wolves 1997 shirt

Proof from Garmin that I did run it

My medal and race badge

Looking red at the finish line holding up my medal

Officially a #NorthRoadSurvivor! St Helen's 10K completed, with a PB in the bag for good measure, this morning as part of my training for the London Marathon for the Warrington Wolves Foundation

All donations gratefully received here: warringtonwolvesfoundation.enthuse.com/cf/charlotte... 🐺🏅🏃‍♀️

Disability Football is one of the community initiatives my London Marathon fundraising helps to support, so as it's payday weekend, if you can chip in a few quid the link is here: warringtonwolvesfoundation.enthuse.com/cf/charlotte...

A photo of me looking very wet and cold holding a football, nevertheless laughing

Can't feel my hands after a two hour session in the freezing rain with the Warrington Wolves Foundation Disability Football juniors and then open age this morning down at Padgate Academy, but as you can tell from the smile on my face, I loved every minute! ⚽🐺

This result shows people want something different from the same old.

We need to listen and act.

At our best Labour is a voice for change, progress and hope but importantly, we deliver it.

Labour can be a progressive force for good in every community.

We need to prove ourselves like never before.

The Gorton and Denton result is an absolute disaster for Labour. Clearly, we now risk no longer being seen as the natural home for progressive voters. This loss was avoidable. Angeliki, members and our party staff worked tirelessly, but our leader and sections of the NEC blocked the one candidate who could have won it for us. That decision now looks like a catastrophic error. We need an immediate and fundamental reset - of strategy, of policy, and of culture - now.

The message from Gorton and Denton is clear: Labour needs a fundamental reset.

A selfie of me, Justin Madders MP and two fellow activists out door-knocking in the rain

A photo of me, Sarah Owen MP and Stella Creasy MP striking a pose with our leaflets

Hot samosas in the campaign office

A photo of my hand holding a leaflet for the Labour candidate Angeliki Stogia

Took a detour on the way home from Westminster via Gorton and Denton for the polling day GOTV final push. Wet and grey weather, but the vibes were good with lots of doors knocked fuelled by campaign office samosas!

Two hours til polls close, keeping everything crossed for the amazing Angeliki! 🌹🗳️❤️

Warrington East and Warrington West as I like to call them 😂

Exactly 🙂

Fun fact: video gaming as a sector is worth more to the UK economy every year than the music and film industries combined in GVA.

Maybe it's not your thing, cool, whatever, but you definitely still benefit from the fact other people enjoy it as much as they do and being a snob about it is passé 🤷‍♀️

Reform planning on going into the next election promising to:
- scrap sick pay for low earners
- allow workers shifts to be cancelled with no notice
- ensure tenants can be evicted from a home near their children’s schools without any reason

All the events to look forward to in Warrington town centre this year Here are all the events to look forward to in Warrington town centre this year.

All the events to look forward to in Warrington town centre this year

As someone who has fought and won 2 elections, and canvassed in countless across the country over two decades, I can tell you definitively that the vast majority of people don't have an issue speaking their minds when you ask them (whether it's positive, negative or indifferent - you get all sorts!)

Polling is all over the place but it wasn't the response we had out today, or indeed what the data says on the ground - there's no areas that are Reform v Green so it doesn't stack up that that's where the contest is. It certainly suits Reform's objectives to have people think that though 🤷‍♀️

No, I think it will be Labour or Reform (hence going to help campaign to do my bit to try and ensure it is the former not the latter). I think I spoke to two people who told me they were definitely voting Green all afternoon.

A photo of me and our door-knocking group outside campaign HQ holding up 'Vote Labour' boards

What better way to spend a day off than pitching in for the campaign effort to get the amazing Angeliki Stogia elected in Gorton & Denton!

I went out on three door-knocking rounds in Denton this afternoon and the returns were positive, but the only poll that counts is polling day on Thursday! 🗳️🌹

Absolutely! I wasn't really up for it this morning (I've got builders in at home so it's pure chaos at the minute living around them), but as you can see from the big smiles all round I'm glad I went - we even got some of the first proper daylight of the year! 😀

A selfie with me and my friends Alan and Robin at the finish!

Another Saturday morning, another Warrington Parkrun and I'm set for my first Milestone Club milestone on my next one! 🏃‍♀️

Policy ones have stayed fairly stable albeit at a very high level since COVID. But AI features more in terms of eg. wildly inaccurate legal advice that gives people false hope about routes that don't exist for redress for their issue/refers to a different jurisdiction/is just total garbage etc.

A photo of me at my laptop with a brew

Leaving my office for the day after some extra Recess casework surgeries, and an opportunity to get on top of admin with the added time with my constituency team this week!

If you'd like a surgery appointment, drop me an email to charlotte.nichols.mp@parliament.uk to get booked in ☕

Do NOT miss this dog's photo-finish snapshot in the replies.

The argument is always that some offices don't utilise their full staffing budget, but it's often in areas of the country where demand will be miles lower that that's the case, while the majority of MPs especially in towns and cities could do with *at least* 1-2 extra FTE roles just to stand still.

That would end up even more unwieldy I think especially with eg. housing issues, as deep local knowledge is invaluable. So unless it was contracted through something like the CAB system, I don't see how you could make it work/that it would be any more cost effective than the triage we already do.

There's an element of this, and the hollowing out of a lot of advice services/legal centres/legal aid etc during austerity has turbocharged this, but it's also that if you don't know what body is responsible for something or you're desperate - as the article says - everyone knows they have an MP.

Being a good MP and being a good employer shouldn't be objectives in constant conflict with one another, but the IPSA budget incentivises poor practice by making you choose between eg: having a big enough team or paying a fair wage for complex and skilled work. Demand and resource are unsustainable.

I am, once again, banging my head against a wall and begging for MP staffing budgets to actually reflect the *thousands* of items of increasingly complex casework and correspondence that come through our offices every month so we can actually give our constituents the service they deserve.

Imagine being one of Reform's 8 MPs and not being invited into a cabinet that lacks a health, defence or foreign affairs shadow

Reform councillor defects to Tories to help challenge council's financial crisis WARRINGTON'S only Reform Councillor John Roddy has defected to the Conservative Group as Warrington Borough Council faces a financial crisis.

Reform claim to be a new party offering something different, but it's clear that they're just the Tories in turquoise - more of the same politics that broke Britain and none of the answers for how to fix it!

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