John Drake

My view right before the election was that PTP/Thaksin were the supreme campaigners and political maneuverers. And it's true. Nobody in Thailand can compare to them. They run circles around everyone else. I also feared, however, that PTP grabbing power would be bad for expatriates in particular. Prayuth basically left immigration alone--just the 400K year round maintenance, I think. He was a status quo politician. And for me, that's what I want. No changes. Now we're getting changes galore, and I can't see anywhere it's for the better, not only for expatriates but for average Thai people. And ultimately, it's their interests that count. And I think Prayuth was better. I now look at 2021 to 2022 as a sort of Golden Age in Thailand.

If you guys constantly fixate on the weather, you're going to feel miserable.

Just would like to see a few showers to cool off the roof tiles.

Prayuth was better.

Wait until Srettha taxes that charm school you operate.

Everything was better: immigration, no taxes on foreign income, no open door for Russians and Chinese, and now this new parcel tax. Hell, even Thai foreign policy was better balanced between China and the West.

Some even come with a punkha wallah.

What's a vegetarian shelter? Is this some sort of place for broken down Hare Krishnas?

Much fewer it seems than UK/European/Russian tourists.

Prayuth was better.

Or just buy a punkha and tie the cord around your big toe to operate it. Think of the savings!

Compared to the rest of the people running the government, he's a piker.

Forecast at my house:

Don't know how old the British scammer is, but if I was a young guy, this looks just fine to me, with the benefit of the pharmacy and access to imodium on the ground floor.

Or he just wanted to scam booking.com out of 7000 pounds.