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In 10 years time the UK pensionable age will be 85, and UK inflation 225%. Your pension will be worth -£1750 pw. You'll be paying til you drop.

I've not met a single one!

That's good. I eventually lost patience and fled the hospital. I decided my vision was good enough. It was a massive relief to keep the 52k THB and get out of their clutches.

I'll do it for 1000 THB. I have a masters (MA) from a top UK university. That makes me insanely clever, trustworthy, honest, AND verifiable in the UK. Roll up, roll up! What about a YouTube influencer? They're famous, rich, highly respected members of the community. Plenty of them in Thailand. Or a dope dealer? Professional herbal health consultant.

I couldn't be bothered to look it all up again. We've been here before. The thread was massive. People did a lot of research. My recollection is, there were "virtually no instances", if any, of overseas UK pensioners being pursued for possible fraud by HMRC or DWP.

Yes, the evidence is, I don't believe there's been even an attempt at prosecution for fraud when it comes to claiming a UK pension abroad. Show me one. It'll be the one that proves the rule. One! Or, show me evidence to the contrary. Innocent until you can prove otherwise!

Think about it. Somebody at the DWP is going to ring Thailand and ask to speak to somebody with an unpronounceable Thai name acting as witness. Never heard such nonsense. It's all just box ticking. It's like when people say UK border force is watching you!

What's this got to do with the OP? A retired army major gets beaten up in Walking Street? Dies in Wales?

Er, hello? He died in a hospital in Wales? Any links to this bizarre story?

Maybe. But any powdered extract is going to be heavily processed, surely, even your whey powder. I'm not sure what defines processed, and what processes are acceptable. Cooking, drying, refrigerating, freezing, heating, roasting. It's possible all processes alter the chemical make up, or other characteristics, of food.

And this is headline news?

Mmmm sounds yummy

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I'm having problems connecting to your server. It gets so far and stops. Has this been reported elsewhere? It's been happening for about 2 weeks now, intermittently, and from different locations. I use my phone and an AIS SIM card.

Apologies. Seems it's not possible.

Convert your THB to UK £ in Wise and send.

Agree it's a must to learn to read first. Treat it like a code breaking exercise. But you can't learn the tones from reading unless you know the tone rules. So first, learn the alphabet. The children's wall charts are colour coded for the consonant classes, and have pictures. Then the tone rules. They do exist. Linguaphone used to include a booklet with their Thai course. I memorized it, and it's proved invaluable. In Thai, if you know how a word is spelt, you can work out the tone. A lot of problems arise from the fact that vowel length is extremely important also. And syllable/word endings. And, and, and! But who doesn't relish a challenge? Like crosswords, sudoku, wordle.

I used to park my bike by Bali Hai harbour and climb the 100s of steps up to the look out point high above the harbour. Then on to the PATTAYA sign, past the what used to pass as a police office caff, a quick turn on the very delapidated outdoor gym equipment, closed for covid, and all the way back up to the other set of vertiginous steps down to my bike. And pick up an Indian Thali on 2nd for breakfast. Ah, they were the days. Lockdown! Didn't you love it?

Good article

I don't see any signs of it. I think a compromise will be found that keeps everybody so so. As long as the overall result stands, there'll be peace. My prediction.

Old news

I'm sure they could find one to replace him. People who think I am arguing against MFP's right to govern are wrong. I'm arguing that Pita and his team were ridiculously naive and negligent to imagine the opposition, in all its various manifestations, wouldn't seize on this. I'd say, whatever the outcome, the damage is done. They should have offloaded the shares years ago. I don't see there's any excuse. But I guess it's down to the courts to decide. I wouldn't have allowed them the opportunity, that's all.

You should know your enemy and what he is capable of. Naive not to. And resign as an MP. It's all the rage in the UK. The only way forward. He's completely screwed up.

It matters little. The point is his predecessor came up against exactly the same barrier and it seems nobody learnt from it. You're either clean, or they're going to nail you. Any fool could see this coming from way back, except, it seems, Pita and his legal team who must be held a countable for this fiasco.

I've decided MFP's only hope is to have Pita resign. That would clear all hurdles away. Basically, he's created this fiasco through his own political naivety. MFP still have PM candidates, and I think much of the opposition would melt away, senators would be appeased by the sacrifice, and they could form a government with the coalition as is. My 10 satangs worth.