Josh Charters

@oldhamlabour & @CoopParty Councillor for St James🌹 | @GMB_union member ✊|

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

Jokes on you - I’ve read their insane stuff before.

[Eben Novy-Williams @novy_williams]

I promise, you are not prepared for the first paragraph of this Real Madrid statement

https://t.co/Z7LMHfYP9J

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

When I met Angela Rayner to campaign for change to overly aggressive council tax debt collection, with its unprecedented rapid escalation to balliffs, she nodded like most politicians do.

I explained it was destructive for individuals, councils and the economy. She listened more then said she'd change it. I was sceptical. Yet a consultation was launched within weeks and delightfully the change announced within 18mths (its in place from next April) - bullet train pace for politics.

I've a rule that if I campaign for a politician (of any party) to do something, and they do it, I say thank you. Its important to recognise it. So thank you so much Angela Rayner for listening and more importantly acting. The changes coming are a great start.

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

Absolutely devastating news. Pat was an absolute legend and always had a good bit of advice for anyone who wanted it.

Thoughts are with his family and the entire @McrLabour family

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

RIP Councillor Pat Karney.

In 2006, when I came up with the idea of The Warehouse Project, it was laughed off.

Pat believed in it and helped it happen.

A visionary. A pioneer. A true Mancunian.

#RIPPatKarney

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

Seems like today would be a bad day to be a Liverpool fan who wanted Ferrari to do well

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

I love that he cannot help but bring a football analogy in. My Prime Minister

[Dom Hallas @Dom_Hallas]

NON COMPETES BANNED

Today, the PM has announced that his Government will legislate to functionally ban non-compete agreements for startups and scaleups in the UK or as he called it - the Bosman ruling for ruling for the innovation sector' 😂

At the @StartupCltn been working on this for months and we think it’s a huge potential unlock for our tech ecosystem.

Here’s what you need to know…

- Measures to functionally ban non-competes for startups and scaleups in the UK are going to be set out.
- There will also be consultation on a wider set of restrictive practices including gardening leave.
- More detail on these plans at the budget in a few weeks (Wednesday 28th October) including a timetable for consultation with a view to legislation in the coming months.

We think this is a huge move and so do lots of friends including so many of the great founders that signed the letter with Inherent just the other week.

Why? Because talent matters and mobile talent means startups can build. The Valley was built on free-flowing talent. In the UK, we’re now seeing our own versions of this story with companies being built from alumni of both homegrown firms like Revolut and beyond. But we need that to move faster. Hiring and building faster means British startups and scaleups can grow faster. Barriers to that slow our ecosystem down.

We won’t pretend it will be perfect, and people (including some of our friends but also lots of fairly vested interests too) will have a right to disagree. But we think that startups will thrive and win in a faster paced Britain.

So we are delighted with the progress today - as part of a strong speech by the PM outlining his ambition for building the world’s leading innovation nation including more on tax, growing companies outside London and more. But this is the start, not the end of the process. The announcement launches a consultation. It doesn't mean the issue is settled. How far reform goes, and what it looks like on the ground, is still to be decided.

The Prime Minister today has done something that can materially impact the trajectory of the UK tech ecosystem and with it our economy - but only if we make sure it’s delivered. So, the real work starts now.

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

I know I’m a few days behind but just heard we’re putting bumblebees on the money

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

@MiriamMirwitch Still sending love - you shouldn’t have to read that vile nonsense

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

Aquilani, Borini, Dossena

[✞Matt @Lfc_ola_]

Without mentioning federico Chiesa, Giovanni Leoni, and Mario Balotelli name an Italian footballer that has played for Liverpool.

Level: Impossible

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

@AnnBlackLabour Thank you for all your reports and service Ann - you've been a near constant in my time in the party and its going to be weird not reading your notes on the NEC meetings

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

@GBPolitcs @theipaper If the I Paper had spent more than 30 seconds researching, they would have noted that the deal was done in 2015. Burnham didn't become Mayor until 2017.

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

@Ben_WilliamsLab Straight onto IPSA Monday morning

[Josh Self @Josh_Self_]

This “email” image is being shared all over here, including by Nadine Dorries

It claims to show Labour instructing an “All Labour X Users” mailing list to praise Burnham's speech

It takes very little critical thinking to see it's fake - but here we are

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Enough is enough.

For years, people have been expected to put up with Avanti’s cancellations, delays, overcrowding, and a service that has failed them time and time again.

So my Labour government is bringing Avanti West Coast into public ownership at the earliest opportunity in March next year.

That means passengers, not shareholders, will come first.

More investment, fewer delays, and a renewed focus on getting the basics right.

We're putting essential services back in public hands and building a railway that actually works for the people who use it.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

If a foreign state has attacked the UK, you’d think all British politicians would unite in condemning that state. Not Reform. Their first response is to lash out at the Government, and try and make political capital out of the incident.

[Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry]

I said it in 2020 and I’ll say it again.

If you leave a home empty long-term in the middle of a housing crisis, it should be seized.

Today’s announcement is great news.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

114

[Erik Ten Heisenberg @UtdHeisenberg_]

Send this to every Man City fan you know.

#115

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Muxqp4beK9

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

Burnham bounce (colourised, 2026)

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Am told that Labour conference is now *so popular* that they have installed a temporary bar with more than 20 beer taps outside the Pullman.

Source calls it a “Game changer”

[Josh Charters @JoshChartersLab]

The insanity of this Covid bar in Massachusetts is making me seriously consider paying for Twitter. Like it’s too good to be free