Sean

Number crunching Northerner - Widnes Vikings - Tech - TV addict - Touch Rugby

[Sean @kemik]

@levelsio @robj3d3 @tibo_maker Singapore corporate residency is based on location of management and control, so you’d be paying Thai corporate tax rates and need to file Thai corporate tax returns

[Code-Reinho-Tactical @CodeReinhoTac]

Vous cachez une climatisation sous votre plancher n'est ce pas ?

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

If Burnham is looking for economic ideas, here are nine pro-growth tax reforms endorsed by seven leading think tanks from across the spectrum. Still worth a read... https://t.co/834Cq2Ri9W

[Sean @kemik]

This is disappointing and I’ve emailed to say as much. Less so the policy, more how they will implement it - by requiring adults to upload their ID everywhere. Kids can easily get around restrictions and move to non-blocked sites. Better solution is regulating the sites.

[Yuan Yang @YuanfenYang]

I really welcome today's announcement that the government will be bringing in a social media ban for under 16s, after the consultation found the overwhelming majority of parents support it. (1/3)

[Tom McTague @TomMcTague]

SAS govt of national unity:
Al Carns
Dan Jarvis
Tom Tugendhat
Mike Martin

[Josh Gafson @JoshGafson1]

As Black Rod knocked on the door, someone in the Commons shouted 'not now, Andy'

[Sean @kemik]

If someone doesn’t make a campaign video of @ZackPolanski with the theme tune of Max and Paddy, I’ll be very disappointed.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Zack Polanski and his partner called their narrowboat their “amazing home” for three years. He registered to vote there.

If it was his main residence, council tax was due. None was paid.

His team says he stayed there only “occasionally” - if true, there's a very big problem.

[𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍™ @Devon_OnEarth]

You're telling me the British Defence Attache to a Desert country is a guy called "Captain Sandy Sandilands"

[Sheridan @sherrybucks]

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

From Morgan Stanley to the front line.

At 22, Ukrainian Viktoriia Honcharuk had a Manhattan banking job, Midtown apartment. Two weeks later, she was evacuating wounded soldiers under Russian fire, NY Post. 1/

[Sean @kemik]

£25 fine for being 15 mins late back to the car is a bit steep… @ReadingCouncil

[Sean @kemik]

@OliDugmore @TomMcTague How does the interest change with salary? Don’t you mean repayments?

[Sean @kemik]

@jdgsport

[Mike Martin MP 🔸 @ThreshedThought]

This is something historians will write about in a chapter called the March to War in Europe.

The UK government promised a national conversation on defence and security … and instead we’ve had silence and cuts.

It’s a total dereliction of duty.

[fill your boots @MilitaryBanter]

Please keep anon. The issues that are coming out for AJAX are the tip of the iceberg, the list is endless. The PXR delivered by a unit on scorpion cyclone highlighted so much that has been ignored. And I’m only listening a few issues.

- The vehicle batteries cannot sustain the vehicle for general use and the APU that is fitted to the AJAX variant is so prone to failing that units are stopping troops from using them. The COA for this is to carry a manpack on exercise to avoid the need of running the vehicle up, but this also effects training, with students not being able to receive full lessons.
- There are no cam nets or thermal sheets designed for AJAX, we use AS90 cam nets that we cut to fit in the bin because its too big. We cant hide the thermal signature on the vehicle or hide it effectively enough to survive any kind of enemy searching for us.
- Fuel tanks are failing, which means crews need to use the fuel pump in the CES to move fuel around and between vehicles. Whilst we talk about fuel tanks, its fair to mention that we mock the Russians for having fuel tanks on the rear doors, and yet we have made the same mistake.
- The technical document is over 20k pages which is essentially needs a course to navigate. The CES schedule is multiple pages of army jargon and GD numbers that troops are struggling to decipher and I would argue that most people cannot accurately account for their kit because of this.
- The L-specs used by instructors are a copy and paste mess from other vehicles, which leads to dangerous confusion in lessons, such as instructing a user to carry out GPMG drills on a HMG, and despite it being flagged, it remains in the L-spec.
- When a stoppage occurs in the 40mm cannon, a 30 minute wait period is enforced on the vehicle by the system, this also stops the chain gun from being used because it lacks any mechanical means of firing. The obvious solution to this would have been to fit a L37 so that during a stoppage the COAX can still be fired and any faults/damages can be rectified at crew level and would give crews a dismountable GPMG for sentries.
- Fuel… the vehicle is unsuitable by even a challenger 2 G4 chain. A squadron used 15000L of fuel in 35 hours if movement across 27 vehicles. The vehicles use approx 16L of fuel an hour, and with a tank of 795L, we will get 50hours of movement before empty. This is a vehicle designed to be used as a DEEP recce vehicle, and it cant even be sustained with POL by its G4 chain.
- Recently ATDU was given the task of proving an AJAX can go from factory to the ranges and fire. To start with they couldn’t grease the tracks because the grease gun wouldn’t work, so they used a warrior grease gun (GD has now reinvented this and created their own worser version). next came the comms check, and the crews found that the internal wiring was incorrect and kit was missing or broken which had to be salvaged from other vehicles. The next hurdle was boresighting the vehicle which required someone from GD to come and do for the crews. In the end out of 4 vehicles, only 1 fired 10 rounds.
- The vibration issues are worse than people realise. I challenge anyone to get in the back of a ARES and survive 30 minutes cross country. The same for AJAX when crews are hatch down. Crews have reported watching cables unscrewing while the vehicle is running. GD and the MOD’s solution is rubber tracks… AJAX is designed to be crewed by 3 people, and they expect them to be capable of replacing a rubber track without bringing other troops in to help, so that they don’t highlight their position.
- GD has realised they are in the red with AJAX and will recoup their losses via spares on the vehicle. An ares dented a back bin, which required a replacement that cost £90k +, because they decided they would only replace the entire unit, including lights and cameras, despite them being perfectly fine.
- Lets talk about train as you fight. Unlike during training, the CES cannot be carried by the vehicle when fitted with its war fighting armour, which means it will need to be added to the growing G4 packet following on behind troops, alongside the crates of locktite that EVERY nut on the vehicle requires before fitting.

These issues have been raised at every level, and they have been ignored. Regimental CoC have been told, brigade commanders have been informed, we even informed the GCGS team when they visited. They don’t care, and its clear that people are prioritising potential careers with GD than the MOD and the effect their negligence has on the troops they are dumping AJAX onto. I watched a vehicle nearly burn down when the crew crawled it back into camp because GD failed with mount the engine correctly and yet the crew was still blamed for the damage.

The reality is, CVRT and warrior should have been upgraded to meet modern threats and come in line with equivalent vehicles. Someone decided that we need to move away from the “CVRT mentality” and that the CT40 and new turret cannot be fitted to warrior in a cost effective manner.

[Sean @kemik]

Singapore has never looked so tempting. More taxes, yet increase in borrowing, for what? Worse benefits?

[Sean @kemik]

@mould2k Cash ISA's capped, but only for under 65's...

[Sean @kemik]

Employee NI on pension contributions over £2k pa... Great, so now I get taxed to save too. Let me guess... pensioners still don't get taxed (NI) on their pension draw downs?

[Sean @kemik]

£360 for 12,000 miles. Mental!

[Sean @kemik]

3p per mile for EV's. So the trip to my parents in an eco friendly car that the Government has been pushing will now cost me an extra £12...