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Casey Modell

@CaseyModell

Building at https://t.co/bI0Zj8HwSQ. I make coffee tools for fun.

Katılım Ağustos 2011
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Casey Modell
Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@Ameer_Kotecha It’ll make for good discussion. I think the public and perhaps Ministers are under the general impression they are paying for a Rolls Royce Civil Service which considering overall budgets is true; however the median grades can really struggle and is that conducive to excellence?
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Ameer Kotecha
Ameer Kotecha@Ameer_Kotecha·
This morning @StigAbell and @KateEMcCann had myself and the President of the PCS union on to clash swords. PCS said civil servants shouldn’t even have to work the current 3 days a week in the office because of the increase in petrol and energy costs caused by the Iran conflict. I said: - civil servants already have a very generous WFH arrangement; - those based in a London office are already paid extra to compensate for the commuting and living costs; - public sector productivity has flatlined and this would make it worse. We must stand up to these insane union demands
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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@ahmedshubber25 Exciting times! Would love to quote anything milled, turned or cut by laser/waterjet. We have some sheet metal fabrication too. Manufacturing located in South East England. We’ve export experience and I used to manage the supply chain for diesel generator OEM in 🇬🇧
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Ahmed shubber@ahmedshubber25·
Millions of dollars in supplier orders will be placed over the next 10 days. Gen 2 production begins in July.
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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@Ameer_Kotecha The same happened at Defra with the closure of Nobel House. The new site looks like a call centre - designed to discourage.
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Ameer Kotecha@Ameer_Kotecha·
It is important to remember that while our national institutions today look wayward and moribund, they were once great and can be once more. In that vein, here are some tomes photographed a few years ago in the old Foreign Office library. The library was closed, but it can be re-opened again.
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RS Archer@archer_rs·
Europe needs to face a new reality. War with Russia is very likely, probably starting in the Baltics. We can no longer rely on the Americans. Europe needs to rearm, introduce conscription for both men and women and be ready. Waiting is no longer an option
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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@MerrynSW Thoughts on pensions being taxed at the lower rate at source for nonresident recipients? Reason: UK located pensioners pay back in through VAT on purchases etc whereas overseas pensioners do not therefore retire to Spain et al and still contribute.
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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@Ameer_Kotecha Disagree, you’re conflating issues. FOI requests are one of the few scrutinising options available to the public. They’re a vital public service function. Corporate process is bureaucracy - it should be strictly limited and differentiated within grades.
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Ameer Kotecha@Ameer_Kotecha·
It’s often hard to shine a media spotlight on the Foreign Office’s problems because the structural/systematic stuff can feel a bit niche and parochial. But it really is crucial if we are to improve our foreign policymaking and our clout on the world stage. So here is number 3 in my list of problems for the @Independent : *Bloated HQ bureaucracy* Three-quarters of British officials are based not abroad but in the Foreign Office’s two UK headquarters (London and East Kilbride, Scotland). The result is a bloated centre, with too many officials paper-pushing and speaking to each other, rather than to foreigners. These officials spend ever-increasing amounts of time on corporate processes, responding to Freedom of Information requests or drafting media “lines to take”. They should be spending their time – as indeed they want to be – thinking deeply about the foreign policy challenges we face today. We should free HQ-based staff from excessive bureaucracy and have a greater proportion of staff based in our embassies overseas, doing what is the core of the diplomat’s job: going out to bat for the UK overseas.
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Casey Modell
Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@IrritableChris As you say that’s the spend post tax - an individual would have have to earn c. £265,000 PAYE to pay the £500 per day hotel bill. Abject policy failure.
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Chris@IrritableChris·
Sorry, I couldn't make it past point 1. How on earth does it cost £158,000 to house a family of 3 for a year?? Three grand a week?? There are literally millions of families larger than this paying mortgages, energy bills, food bills, council tax and more on a taxed income of less than a third of that. You can get an all inclusive 4 star beach resort hotel 14 night break during the school holidays from Jet 2 for £1800 a week for a family of 3, so how on God's green earth do you manage to make single room with a bunk bed in Birmingham cost £3k a week. How?
Shabana Mahmood MP@ShabanaMahmood

Our pilot of new incentives to remove failed asylum seeking families will save taxpayers up to £20 million. Here's why 👇 1. It costs 158k to put up a family of 3 in an asylum hotel for 1 year. It costs 48k more to forcibly remove someone. A 10k per person incentive, up to a max of 40k per family, will save money. 2. If someone refuses an incentive, we will move to a forced removal. If you have no right to be in this country, you should not be allowed to stay. 3. There is nothing new about incentive payments. The Tories did it. Even Reform say they will do it. 4. Higher incentives have worked in Denmark. 95% of returns there are voluntary. 5. These incentives are not a pull factor. Asylum claims in Denmark are at a 40-year low. And asylum seekers spend tens of thousands of pounds getting to this country, that's more than any incentive payment. 6. This is a pilot of 150 families. We will see if it works and scale it if it does. That's taking a smart approach, that saves taxpayers' money, to restoring order at our borders. I make no apology for doing that.

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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@MerrynSW You would have to earn a gross salary of c.£265,000 to be able to spend £158,000 per year on hotels. The waste is revolting.
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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@Ameer_Kotecha I’ll believe you’re serious if you start calling out, where appropriate, senior leadership.
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Ameer Kotecha@Ameer_Kotecha·
I think the public are increasingly two steps ahead of the Government when it comes to recognising the need for radical civil service reform. That at least is my conclusion from reading the comments to the Times piece and on here (for which thanks to you all). Thai isn’t about criticising all rank and file civil servants. Most are conscientious, some are very impressive. But they are held back by a bad system. This is therefore about calling out the problems with the system and, where appropriate, senior leadership. It’s about wanting a government machine where promotion is based on delivering results. And having accountability when people fail to deliver. This is all normal in the private sector. There’s no reason why we can’t or shouldn’t have it in the public sector.
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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@MerrynSW If you’re genuinely interested in this topic then I’d love to give you some food for journalism.
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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@JohnCleese I’m interested to know - what makes Orban a thug? Do you have any links I could read that inform your opinion because I’m really not sure why I’m supposed to hate him 🤔
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Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
I’ve always loved #theapprentice what better reminder that anyone can do it! In real situations we get to watch contestants fail and fail again and yet they succeed, it’s an inspiring show and we need more like it. Please don’t stop @Lord_Sugar
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Josef Chen@josefchen·
Circuit boards are my love language
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Casey Modell
Casey Modell@CaseyModell·
@DuncanBannatyne Have you the health to run Mr Bannatyne? A parliamentary majority only takes 326 great candidates.
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Duncan Bannatyne@DuncanBannatyne·
I agree and I have read his posts. I would love him to be PM but he does not have a party so he can’t be.
Inquiring Mind@JJT39

@DuncanBannatyne Go and read Rupert’s posts mate, he talks sense in a sea of senility.

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