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Thailand really needs to be honest and look at itself before starting to emulate or compare with other countries.
3 hours ago, webfact said:What if you could file your taxes in less than five minutes?
How about people paying taxes first and the authorities checking they do.
Ingrained corruption should be looked at which would take about 20 years plus if they stared today to get rid of. it
3 hours ago, webfact said:“Citizenship is not the most defining feature of us anymore – rather, community feeling is,” Digital Adviser Sikkut said recently
This is the big problem citizens here don't seem to matter. Just loom at the current political mess as an example.
The article whilst positive really is over ambitious and should look at the grass root problems of why Thailand can't be like Estonia or anyone else.
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They should be forced by the courts to show their assets. After all what have they to lose! I guess another face saving way of admitting guilt whilst getting away with it.
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She is right, the same story with brexit. Scare the people with any tactic possible. What do you think the banks will do pull out and lose their money. Not a chance they will adapt and continue to rip people off whether it is the Franc, Euro or any other currency.
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3 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
Would you care to offer some suggestions for a more balanced daily newspaper?
The Times but its a pay to view.
I read most of the papers daily. Some are good for things like the Guardian for education and sport but its politics are biased. The Telegraph isn't to bad.
I actually enjoying the comments section of articles especially in the Express or Mail as many things written by readers are better than the articles.. Pictures and photos the Mirror and Star. The Sun (if you can call it a newspaper) never gets read from anyone where I am from (so there is a guess). The independent is just far to biased for me.
I hope that helps.
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22 hours ago, canopus1969 said:
will campaign for motorists to put their headlights on even during daytime
The locals do not put them on at night - what chance during the day
I once asked a taxi driver why he didn't have his headlights on as it was dark. He responded by saying he was saving on his battery.
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22 hours ago, sandyf said:
One day many will wake up and they are not going to like what they see, of course to many the emerging face of brexit is perfectly acceptable.
Benefit cuts but plenty money for brexit costs.
Hate crime
Deportation
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4190826/Grandmother-married-Briton-27-years-deported.html
Price rises
Antagonism
Customs chaos
The list just goes on and on but of course those that will have to live with the fallout should keep their mouths shut and respect the will of their elders.
I suggest you stop reading the independent newspaper, as the independent is definitely not what its name says. It is a mouthpiece for the remain campaign and kisses the backside of the EU, so you will only get one side of the story.
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5 minutes ago, webfact said:
He said this will be the first year that the Ministry will campaign for motorists to put their headlights on even during daytime which helps reduce the accident by 30% according to research
Not if you are drunk as a skunk. If the Ministry think that this will reduce road deaths over Songkran by 30 percent they are delusional. It will be the same as each year. You need to change a cultural mindset first (will take years if they start now) then police the roads properly. I actually had to look at the date of the article to check it wasn't on the 1st of April
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33 minutes ago, mariner16 said:
But if we want to increase trade with USA the payback will be giving US Health Insurers access to the NHS. If we want US companies building factories etc. in UK the payback will be loss of workers rights and benefits to "fit in" with the US idea of how a society should work. I am afraid that is not the kind of society I want to live in, and neither do most Europeans which is one of the reasons they pursued the European project in the first place, as a way of gaining critical mass against the overbearing USA exporting their brand of capitalism around the world.
But the UK will not just be trading with the USA. It has the commonwealth and other countries that will not have the EU constraints put upon them that we currently have trading. I know if zero hour contracts go family and friends in the UK will be happy.
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27 minutes ago, mariner16 said:
Interesting article in the Times if you can access it. Thought this analogy was spot on.
"One thing is clear when you look at the ups and downs of our historic relationship with Brussels: billing Article 50 as the start of divorce proceedings misses the point. We were never in a marriage: no passion, no offspring. It was more like a flat-share where we squabbled about the bills, about the pilfering from the fridge and about the uninvited guests sleeping on the sofa."
"Last weekend, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the treaty, EU members committed themselves to the European idea — and pointedly excluded Britain. It was an exquisite historic irony. As Britain tried to sign up to the EEC, it repeatedly found itself rebuffed, above all by the French president Charles de Gaulle. The reasons for the Non! were manifold: EEC concern that Britain would turn their community into an elaborate free trade zone, expand its realm to include Commonwealth partners, make English the main language. Chiefly, though, De Gaulle smelled British desperation; it had nowhere else to go and the EEC could play for time."
Precisely, sums it up perfectly, at the end of the day UK has been nothing but a wrecker in EEC/EU attempting to subvert the whole project at every turn, particularly when a Tory government has been in power. The wonder is that they didn't have an article 50 equivalent to expel an unwanted member, because make no mistake there is as big a feeling on continental Europe wanting UK stripped of opt outs to the euro and schengen etc. and ejected if they wouldn't become full and committed members, irony is that UK has done it for them.
Back in 1973 it was as much about not becoming the 51st state of USA as it was about becoming part of the European project, now UK really will become the USA's poodle to be led around on a leash and do what we are told.
Really! I don't see the USA telling us (the UK) we have to have this legislation and we have to pay up billions to them. Or they don't say we can't trade we other non EU countries and if we do we will penalize you. Now if that is being led on a leash the EU must have been like been put in a straight jacket and wheeled around.
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1 hour ago, SheungWan said:
Lord Kerr re Article 50: "It is not irrevocable. You can change your mind while the process is going on'.
Isn't it about time you accepted it and 'manned up'. Criticise later if need to but if you are British, act like a patriot regardless, if you agree with the referendum or not.
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Theresa May's Brexit speech live in Parliament is truly Churchillian. Well done and what a honest and true response for what the UK wants, with the EU. It is over to Brussels now but that what a hand of hope and if you don't accept it, then go and <deleted>. Bravo Bravo
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23 minutes ago, Grouse said:
1.4 million British people live abroad in the EU.
Actually in the EU!
23 minutes ago, Grouse said:1.4 million British people live abroad in the EU
Yes and more people from the EU live in the UK.
23 minutes ago, Grouse said:More than 14,500 UK students took part in the European Union’s Erasmus student exchange scheme in 2012-13
More EU students come to the UK and get student loans to pay for them with many never repaying them, so hardly something to celebrate.
23 minutes ago, Grouse said:3M British jobs linked to exports to EU
Figures from the early 2000s and they say they are dependent on the UK being an EU member.
23 minutes ago, Grouse said:Stability for 476,000 British farmers and farm employees
There are less farms now since the EU and the word 'stability' is very questionable.
I could go through over half of these (can't be bothered) and say that through the 40 years progression , many of these so called facts would have happened due to time. This is can hardly be contributed exclusively to the EU. Who is the numpty!
23 minutes ago, Grouse said:Now some will disagree with many of these points
Why is that? Is it because they are ambiguous in nature and factually incorrect.
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Interesting article in the Times if you can access it. Thought this analogy was spot on.
"One thing is clear when you look at the ups and downs of our historic relationship with Brussels: billing Article 50 as the start of divorce proceedings misses the point. We were never in a marriage: no passion, no offspring. It was more like a flat-share where we squabbled about the bills, about the pilfering from the fridge and about the uninvited guests sleeping on the sofa."
"Last weekend, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the treaty, EU members committed themselves to the European idea — and pointedly excluded Britain. It was an exquisite historic irony. As Britain tried to sign up to the EEC, it repeatedly found itself rebuffed, above all by the French president Charles de Gaulle. The reasons for the Non! were manifold: EEC concern that Britain would turn their community into an elaborate free trade zone, expand its realm to include Commonwealth partners, make English the main language. Chiefly, though, De Gaulle smelled British desperation; it had nowhere else to go and the EEC could play for time."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/sixty-years-of-continental-drift-c7cklj2hb
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Finally it has been a long day coming. Regardless if you agree with Brexit or not I believe that if you care about your country, you should support it and that means supporting the process for leaving the EU. If you are not happy then you can vote the government out at the next election. The argument for and against Brexit is over. It is happening Hip Hip Hoorah!
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A few thousand tree huggers and luvvys will hardly make a difference. Many from the picture look like they are not even British.
Before The PC brigade start whining, I meant from the various flags of European countries been waved.
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Very ambitious indeed. I wish Thailand luck with it. I would suggest a lot more infrastructure needs to be invested and Thailand's image and reputation politically, needs a serious overhaul. I still get people asking me is Thailand safe, so a lot of worked required there.
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22 minutes ago, stander said:London is now made up of mono-cultural ghettos and no-go areas where the different nationalities, religions, and cultures do not celebrate any values other than the ones they have imported from the countries they left behind.
So very true. To get a real cockney these days you have to go to Romford in Essex or even further afield. It seems that the real Londoners have been overtaken. Last year a London cab driver confirmed this and said he was leaving also.
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Two can play at that game Mr. Juncker.
Theresa May is prepared to block access for European vessels to British fishing waters if talks with the EU over Brexit break down.
The prime minister is due to announce that Britain will pull out of the 1964 London convention, the agreement that gives EU nations access to fishing waters between six and twelve nautical miles from British shores.
Fishermen from other EU states have more to lose by the end of the agreement. Non-British vessels land an average of 58 per cent of the fish caught in UK waters each year. British vessels catch only 21 per cent of their fish in EU waters beyond the UK exclusive economic zone.
Under the policy, the quota is distributed under rules fixed 35 years ago, based on historical catches. British fishermen believe they lost out under these original allocations. In the English Channel, the UK receives only 9 per cent of the stock while France receives 84 per cent.
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31 minutes ago, DaveE13 said:
Its now being said it was the Defence Ministers Security Detail who shot the attacker.
Well done that man.
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1 hour ago, webfact said:
Citing a new examples of things to be upgraded in fresh markets, the deputy minister said that the stalls that sell meat need to have glass partition to keep away flies.
Wow that is ingenious. Something the rest of the world have known for the last 60 years. How about keeping it in cool temperatures as meat lying in the sun all day looks less appealing by the minute.
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10 hours ago, Grouse said:
Maybe the Yorkshiremen on here should organise an outing? Just a thought!
Whilst honourable how about the good Yorkshire Muslims who are not radicals or extremists. If there are any. How about them putting their country first (if they are truly British) before their religion and getting rid of this cancerous scum.
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30 minutes ago, true word said:
Attacker was British born, a slap on most of the posters faces here
Being born in Britain and living and resecting the British culture are two separate things. It is his religious beliefs that are at question not where he was born. Congratulations on your first post.
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5 minutes ago, stander said:
Islamists feed on the same rulebook, the Quran as other Muslims. The peaceful majority are irrelevant.
Yes that is correct and when you have stats like this and they don't seem to be lowering, you have the problem. people can pretend it is isolated but it isn't. Over the last decade more and more problems with cultural diversity and the unwillingness to integrate.
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26 minutes ago, Berkshire said:
I'm for preventing future terrorist attacks, and I'm pretty sure the moderate Muslims want the same. We need their help, simple as that.
That is a very sound solution and I agree but moderate Muslims because of the religion loyalty comes first to Islam. They may said oh that's bad or it isn't us but how about cleaning up your own mess and getting these non moderates out. That is the crux of the problem. The religion seems to have a stranglehold on their morality.
World’s most wired nation offers guide for Thailand 4.0
in Thailand News
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Why not start in Singapore or China as Thailand is often comparing themselves with these two countries, even though they are worlds apart and Thailand is nowhere near in technological terms and probably never will be.