Chelseafan

4 hours ago, robblok said:

Maybe if you increase the wages a bit they would be more inclined to work there. But face it a production job is not something most people want to do. I know I studied hard to never having to do it. 

 

Learned from my jobs while studying the things i absolutely did not want to do. So i studied on. So I understand people not wanting to do stupid jobs like that. But higher pay and the fact that they have no job should persuade them.

Those "stupid" jobs are the ones that are feeding us and making our lives better.

Higher pay means that you become uncompetitive and end up going out of business.

I see through this plan

No audience. No golders alllowed from outside Thailand

Thai golfer wins by default.

Genius.

10 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Sickening how you can be wiped out in a second here with alarming regularity any time any place any road ????Rip

Whats more sickening is that this happens time and time again with little enforecment of the law, poor driving skills, poorly maintained vechicles and idiots behind the wheel.

How many crashes in the UK are caused by brake failure ? Hardly none!

2 hours ago, sencelebi said:

I worked excatly 12 years without vacation, guess what? I'm still alive !

Good for you

On 10/26/2020 at 12:22 PM, lungbing said:

But there has not been any Brexit failures.  All we have is people like you and those with a vested interest telling us it's going to fail.  The egg may well be upon your face.

It's not going to fail but it will be costly and someone (the consumer) will have to pick up the tab.

2 hours ago, Black arab said:

Seems reasonable,!

At least he asked!
 

1 hour ago, Leaver said:

That's right.  Like I said, it may be only a move of 100 baht, but depending how much you are trading, it may be worthwhile to trade it. 

 

Currency traders do this with only small. increases or decreases in exchange rates.  Depends how much you are trading.  

The original point still stands however you want to look at it. "slump" is not the right word to descibe a small swing.

1 hour ago, DjSilver said:

No <deleted> Sherlock, did you really believe that there is no Covid-19 in Thailand or that they had so few cases and an increase in pneumonia by 600%? Get real, we are talking about a dictatorship that lovea to censur the truth.

Did you not get the sarcasm in my comment!

28 minutes ago, Leaver said:

Multiple "billions" by 100 baht and let me know what you come up with.  

You can say that about anything.

13 minutes ago, Farma said:

I've been informed by a member of the provincial health department a car will meet me at my local airport, test and deliver me to my accommodation followed by daily visits by medical staff to check my temperature. I know of 2 people currently undergoing home quarantine in my province.

You're Farang I presume ? You're tainted with Covid, not like those clean Thais ????

Just now, Chelseafan said:

 

Yeah, I hate these adjectives. You see it all the time, Pound "crashes" against dollar when in reality the pound has dropped 1 cent.

When the pound gets stronger its usually phrases like "pound edges upwards" rather than "pound rebounds against dollar"

 

 

 

10 hours ago, robsamui said:

Of Course. 
What did Trump say about bringing the USA's numbers down? Stop testing.
What do you think Tland's been doing since the panic started back in March?

A little bit of truth in this

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Thailand has tested 14k per 1m of the population compared to 393k per 1m of the population in the US,

Having said that, if the virus is truly under control as they claim then the need for testing diminishes

10 hours ago, Farma said:

Some provinces, not all, have additional home quarantine once a person arrives in that province after 14 day ASQ.

And you really think they abide by it ? ????

13 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

 

But who knows, perhaps those 41 messiahs that are supposedly arriving today will be turning things around in an instant and save the nation from certain doom.

 

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but its 39....

This is awful. My wife lives about a mile away from Lam takhong dam. All the locals think it's going to burst and take out Sung Noen and the surrounding villages. Luckily she is on higher ground but a lot of people are gonna get flooded out.

9 hours ago, bodga said:

If I was him Id  be  more worried about a  Ceausescu event!

I miss those days when we could get rid of dictators through people power. #goodtimes

4 hours ago, Patts said:

 

All Governments in all democratic countries have said things that have turned out to be incorrect. Your companies logistics manager should be talking to his counterparts and know what items tariffs apply to as well as having a good idea of the procedure that will need to be followed in the event of "No Deal" as I am sure he/she deals with imports/exports to WTO member countries day in, day out. 

 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-tariffs-from-1-january-2021

 

It's down to individual companies to know how they may be affected by Brexit and to have a plan of action to mitigate possible reductions in trade, but this should have all have been in place a long time ago. 

Our Brexit team are aware of the tariffs, the point I was trying to convey is do we actually incoportate them in particular on items with long leadtimes, we're assuming that we are going to have to get HC's for protein and diary based products but if we get a deal then what a huge waste of time. The Government should have had this sorted 6 months ago to allow companies to plan accordingly.

2 hours ago, Patts said:

I don't disagree that there will be some short term pain; but over the following years the problems will be ironed out and new agreements will be created. To say "no deal" will be catastrophic is a massive assumption......

 

There maybe delays, some price increases and some falls. Some sectors will lose trade and some will gain. The government has already stated that they will not be applying tariffs to 88% of goods. 

 

GDP may drop a little more on a "No deal" but it seems to already have found the bottom of its trading range and has been on somewhat of a recovery over the past few months. 

 

I said Catostrophic for the short-term.

The Government has said a lot of things regarding Brexit which have frankly been proven to be BS. Please tell me which of the 88% of items will be tariff free so that we plan out. There are less than 75 days to go and we are still in the dark. Which sectors are going to lose trade ? How can those sectors avoid it ? We plan very well in retail but the uncertainty is causing massive issues.

GDP is only rising given the uncertainty of what is happening in the US. If there IS a no-deal I would very much expect the pound to crash further.

8 hours ago, Hi from France said:

For those of you who have time 

 

I'm watching the parliamentary

Brexit Environment Sub-Committee

 

 https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/547b6473-a15e-47f3-bafc-14b8a294c3f8

 

As you can see, the Brexit situation whether there is a deal or not is deeply worrying 

After watching the intro and when you get bored, you can skip: 10:54 is particularly interesting. There are talking about replicating REACH in Britain, and this is simply not feasible on a market one-tenth the size of the UE. 

 

Yet you cannot do without it. 

 

Likewise, the UK will loose the benefits 20 regulatory agencies (the country used to host drugs and banking, but there are many more). 

 

I was quite surprised to see the UK "slam the door" here and I think it is inevitable that it comes back in order to mutualize what a single country cannot afford. 

 

As you know, we already incorporate REACH legislation into our systems so I do not understand why we have to change it. ALl that is needed is for companies to keep up with EU policy changes if they are to continue trading. His comment on Tarriffs is sound but all companies are in the same boat at the moment.

The Government hasn't slammed the door, merely left it ajar.