NoshowJones

Yes I understand that, I do not frequent bars although I have made the very occasional walk in Nana Plaza. I was really referring to the quietness of the road from Soi 3 down to Asoke. You have got it spot on about online. All I am saying is the main Sukhumvit Road was always busy in the years up to around 2017, I remember saying to myself not too long before the pandemic started that the streets were so quiet and believed, and still do that certain immigration issues have caused long stayers and expats to leave Thailand.

And you have???? This debate is over. Now run along.

To hell with the greedy shareholders, and I am no communist.

I know your feelings and I respect them, but it would seem most of the posters are like me, we do not want soldiers in any part of government and as I said, and stand by. any government will do me if they are all well educated politicians, they are all for themselves anyway. You live in lower Sukhumvit, you must have noticed how empty the streets were and the nightlife, and that was before the pandemic, compare that with 2014, then from about 2017 till about 2019. The soldiers chased many expats and tourists away.

Round about my small town/village here up country, nearly all the pictures of Anutin have been deliberately knocked down, and I am the only farang who lives here now. The only pictures of that despicable man that have not been vandalised are the ones in the town centre.

There is far too much greed and capitalism amongst big business. ie if something negative happens and your average business loses money ie one country invading another, a pandemic, they always pass all the financial losses on to the public, to me that is wrong, they should bear some of the losses themselves. there should be some thought to the people who made them rich in the first place. Most of the people at the top of any big business are financially secured for life, they should start being fair to the very people who put them in the position that they are in.

"We need to send a strong signal to the Thais," Just who are you referring to here? The soldiers making an a$$ of running the country or the Thai people themselves? If the former, then yes, I agree with you, if the Thai people themselves, no! Countries all over the world will have their share of scammers, especially in tourist area's. I find that most of the Thai people are decent, and honest, but I admit that some of their behaviour has gone back a bit since the end of the pandemic, but not their honesty.

As long as the Thai people keep the soldiers away, anything, or any method to get into government will be fine, and will be an improvement on the last nine years.

What does BF stand for? Do you have to be so lazy with your typing??

The thing is the soldiers chased away hundreds of expats and tourists because they don't lose out personally financially, it's the country that loses out, the ordinary Thai person who depends on tourism for a living who loses out big time. If the soldiers really cared about the country and it's people and not just themselves, they would trying to encourage tourism and expats to come and live here.

I think the answer to that is you can refuse to take the piss test, but you will have to go to the police station to do it.

Two words, soldiers and greed.

Just typical insurance companies, they will take loads of money from you for years, then when you reach 76 it's bye bye.

Techno???? Music???????????

Pocket filling somewhere will probably have something to do with it.

He should just get himself and the rest if his soldiers back to their barracks and parade grounds where they should have stayed during the last nine years instead of misruling the country.

Heh! Heh! The UK used to be a Christian country, look at it now, an ethnic "minority" PM. Also what about Scotland? A Muslim First Minister. Thailand may have had a soldiers government for the last nine years, but even with a soldiers mentality, that sort of thing would never be allowed to happen in Thailand.

As many as they want I should think, as long as they are not trolling, it is a public forum after all.

Caretaker??

There is no excuse for anyone under the age of 50 to be smoking, deliberately putting smoke into their lungs, it is just pure stupidity, the warnings have been there for years. It is not just a Thai problem.

What details? As KannikaP says, just leave the UK and come back. Do you think that out of millions of OAP state pensioners all the ones who have changed addresses have notified the DWP?

Yes, but don't tell them.

How would Thailand manage if all expats, retiree's, long stayers suddenly started packing and making arrangements to leave. I am not saying that we should be treated as Thais, but the Thai authorities should remember what we expats are contributing to their economy, taking Thai families out of poverty etc, and should treat us accordingly.

I admit I could be wrong, and I do agree with "where who you know counts for far more than what you know," I suspect brown envelopes involved in some way, but surely you need a good education with university degree's to be successful in politics. Think about it, imagine the unelected caretaker PM being in charge of a full government of people with university degree's in anything, and none of the 200 odd senator's/generals involved. Would he have lasted one month never mind nine years?

It wouldn't be an all you can eat buffet by any chance. ????