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Not to mention that most if not all do not carry passenger insurance , let alone their motor bike insurance .

Indeed and speaking for the UK only ( suspect most other western countries will be the same ) , 2023 will be a difficult financial year , with not only huge rises in energy bills to cover but also those with a mortgage will not be factoring into their budgets foreign holidays , let alone long haul expensive flights . Most families will be staying at home or stay locations at best . These airlines are ruthless . A friend flew in recently to Bangkok and he said the flight was full . He paid £1000 with Thai Air which he booked 4 months ago , and returns next March . He kept an eye on the flight cost week by week and saw it rise to £1500 . Easier for an individual but if say a family of 4 then that would be beyond most budgets . Plus if things are not bad enough , the Bank of England may raise the base interest rate again soon . That will stop most Brits from long haul travel . Cannot see too many Chinese allowed to come any time soon .

Sorry to say that Pattaya has been such an attraction for adults for over 50 years . I think most people coming to Thailand are aware what Pattaya has to offer . I for one would not bring a young family to such a place . There are far better holiday venues to visit that have clean beaches and are free of prostitution .

Absolutely correct . So the police clean up Pattaya , who is going to go there for holiday fun ? nobody for sure . Pattaya is all about girls and bars but the girls are seen as an easy target for the cops . Can you imagine how much the top cop will be making a night at 1000 baht fine per girl ? Much more than checking traffic .

When it is busy at arrivals , the queue can stretch down to the bottom of the carpeted slope and is 3 or 4 people wide , so no way to be through in 15 minutes . I no longer have those problems as I take the over 70 s desks at the top of the slope to the right . 15 minute's at the maximum and I have seen a few queue dodgers , from the main hall where it was very busy , get chucked out . The baggage carousel can be pot luck . I have arrived there to be one of the first waiting for their luggage . Sometimes I have waited half an hour whilst worrying that my luggage is lost . I am wondering if someone else has taken my luggage by mistake because many cases look the same , especially black ones . So I have taken steps to easily I.D. my cases by placing brightly coloured sticky tape , with my name on it . all round the case . Can see it from a long way off .

Walking from the plane to immigration can sometimes take 20 minutes depending on the carrier

So how is it that horse racing , chicken cock fighting and the lottery are OK to gamble on but not football ? Can only be that it is just another easy way to fine gamblers and line the pockets of the police ? BTW any news on the proposed casinos for Thailand ?

You really need to proof read your posts before submitting . Try to read the following slowly and carefully consider your rely . You said , Lets just deal with your actuals rather than your 'prophecies'. Then you quote , Recent official figures show the UK's unemployment rate has edged up, and the Bank of England has forecast it will nearly double by 2025 . It did not take me long to find why the visa for unskilled workers on a tier 3 application had been withdrawn . Because employers were paying well below the minimum wage in many cases and many of the foreign workers simply disappeared to work for cash in the hand jobs . The CBI were guilty of paying below the minimum wage in many businesses and one was the chain of NEXT shops . Also employed staff of under the age of 18 years old for an hourly rate of below the minimum £4 62. The big UK businesses did not care about the UK national , only cared about profits . There were also foreign non English speaking tradesmen working for B.A.E. on construction of new destroyers for the British navy ( by way of sub contractors ) . How they got M.O.D. security clearance needs investigation . Foreign labour is needed but will be overseen by the UK government and not by some approved businesses that proved to be untrustworthy . Employers of foreign labour need to be accountable for the workers and if the company is found to be non-compliant with the rules , they should be hit with a substantial fine and legal proceedings taken to their CEO . Finally , I welcome constructive criticism , general debate and others opinions but I expect that any communication is written with respect and not nonsense , that you implied .

The Uk needs to attract foreign labour in the very near future , in order to promote the growth in the economy . However it needs to be carried out in a controlled way , unlike the crazy E.C. free movement of labour . Let us not forget the UK government supported many workers financially during the lock down of the covid pandemic . It has also backed Ukraine ahead of all E.U. countries and is only headed by the U.S.A. The U.K was well ahead of all E.U. countries in the procurement of the covid vaccine and also in the national vaccination programme . Do you recall when the E.C. stopped a covid consignment that was leaving Belgium and destined for the UK . The E.C. held on to it but did nothing with it , now if that was not sour grapes against the freed U.K. then nothing was . As I have said before , the U.K. will be out of its recession within 2 years and the E.C. will be struggling as it too is on the slippery slope to a recession . Below is a clip from the OECD ( The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, ) The EU economy is sliding into a recession. For this year's last quarter, some expect a 1.7% contraction, and the OECD's baseline scenario predicts a meagre 0.3% growth for the eurozone in 2023, lower than any other region of the world. Historical analogies to the current crisis are easy to find.Oct 3, 2565 BE There could be worrying times ahead for the E.C. countries .

Just wondering , are their still direct flights to Pattaya . I seem to remember that some Russian flights were allowed to fly direct to Pattaya a few years ago . Also , with the large amount of Russians coming to Thailand and some maybe fleeing mobilisation , are they being checked for return flights ? It was only a month or so ago that flights out of Russia to the middle east and Turkey were very expensive . $15k for a one way ticket .

Russia must pay for not only the reinstatement of buildings etc but also the costs involved by other countries that have taken in the Ukraine refugees plus the military aid given in support of Ukraine by other countries .

Who pays for it ? Russia of course . Russia needs to be invaded and stripped of its assets . Especially the gas and oil which can be put back on line to serve the European countries . The possibility of any more hostilities from Russia needs to be quashed for once and for ever .

Unfortunately I have no links , however I was watching the UK news a couple of days ago which focused on the new UK PMs visit to meet the Ukraine's president Zelensky and within that report it was stated that the UK would be given a major role in the re-building of much of the Ukraine as a gesture of the outstanding support and unwavering military help that Ukraine had received from the UK . We do not know the real extent of the UK assistance but I have been told it is significant .

The UK was very close to losing its identity with masses of foreign labour changing the face of many towns . E.G. Boston in Lincolnshire where English became the third language in schools . Things are bad enough today but the E.C. days were a disaster for may of the UK born workers who often struggled to get mundane employment because of being undercut by foreign labour . Who was making money ? the owners and share holders of UK companies who did not care who worked for them , the cheaper rates the better and no allegiance to the true Brits . In my experience in several industries including petrol/chem , ship building and nuclear , the British tradesmen are second to none but were sxxx on by greedy major UK companies . Thatcher knew what she was doing when she pushed for the channel tunnel . Finally I have some European friends who all say they wish their countries would leave the E.C. This includes Germany , France & Italy , that I am told are overrun with asylum seekers .

Not WW11 but today's Ukraine / Russian war is relevant because it has effected many countries economically with the worse to come over the winter months . It is it seems that NATO and the E.C. are made up of many of the same countries and whilst the E.C. countries are happy for the UK to be heavily involved with supporting the Ukraine , ( 2nd only to the USA ), they despise the fact that the UK have divorced the E.U. and are behaving like a scorned woman . The fact that the UK belonged to the EC for 47 years , counts as nothing with existing long term trading being stifled to demonstrate that if you leave the E.U. this is what will happen to your country . So masses of red tape paperwork needed by the French customs overnight , how pathetic and that alone highlights the scale of the Brussels bureaucracy . Of course Brexit has caused economic woe to the UK along with the Ukraine war but every cloud has a silver lining and the UK will be at the forefront of the massive rebuilding of Ukraine . Then watch the E.U. countries sing the blues .

Maybe the number 1 rule should be , To check that the night club is compliant with fire safety laws that state that the venue must be compliant with having emergency fire exits that are both unlocked and unhampered

Your having a laugh when you say a few Polish guys . Prior to Brexit , the UK was overrun with foreign labour who were working often at cheap rates and putting many Brits on the dole . An example of that was the Olympic stadium in London where initially 40% of labour was either from the E.C. or other countries . Local tradesmen could not get a look in . Major UK construction companies would simply sub contract the work to a Polish company who would only employ Polish workers of whom most were unskilled . Example , unqualified Polish electricians made many installations under supervision . The completed work would be signed off by their qualified electrical engineer . This practice was carried out throughout the UK . Fast forward to today where we have low unemployment . There is a need today for foreign labour but it needs to be controlled and not let loose as it was done under E.U. rules . In summary , Brexit has given trading problems which were not helped by Macrons ways. I for one am glad that the UK is free from the shackles of the non-elected E.U. Commission . Post Brexit the UK had the fastest economy growth in Europe until covid came along . The UK will become good again soon under our new found freedom . Moaning stayers should go and live in an E.C. country .

You really are grasping at straws and digging a deeper hole with every reply . OK , lets look at someone who has landed in the UK and claims asylum . They are very few and far between . They will have a visa to enter the UK . A visa for the UK is not easy to get , unless you are with sound financial figures and with a good reason to return to your home country . On entry to the UK you could apply for asylum . To apply for asylum you must be in the UK . In my opinion those channel hoppers and back of a lorry smuggled chancers who have managed to illegally gain entry into the UK , should be taken back to their place of departure or Rwanda etc . That would be a deterrent . An annoying fact is that when these rubber dinghy's get over half way and into British waters the UK navy picks them up and takes them ashore to the UK . The UK were the third highest contributor to the EU with some 22 billion £s in 2018/19 . That loss has had to be made up . The UK are well rid of the bureaucrats of Belgium . As far as the Irish protocol is concerned there should be a vote on reunification with the Republic of Ireland .

They all apply for asylum but still all are illegal entrants . Europe/E.C. countries such as Germany are bound by E.C. rules in the numbers they take in . The UK is no longer in the E.U. and so is not part of that agreement . Finally the E.C. are still hurting because the UK left the E.C. They have made trading difficult on purpose with bureaucracy and unneeded paperwork . The UK will recover from this recession within 2 years but there are tough times ahead for the less well off .

Well , this year alone, up till now , there has been in excess of 40,000 asylum seekers who preferred the long haul to the UK , instead of other European countries . They will all be taken care of at the expense of the UK tax payer . Last year there were 4,8450 asylum applications with the approval rate of 72% . It is correct that an asylum seeker cannot access all the state benefits but once the application is approved they can be given accommodation and many benefits . Spin it which anyway you want but these people are illegal entrants . They chose to travel through Europe , pay £4000 each for the channel crossing to enter the UK illegally . They are lucky not to be turned around to the place of departure . They are all aware that waiting for their process will be a lengthy time . Many have money and are lucky to get the £5.66 a day . They also have friends & family who can help and support them . As for the single male Albanians ( 40% of illegal entrants ) , they are straight off to be with their mafia mates , as soon as they are registered . You really need to keep up to date with the crux of the event .

So why is the preferred country of choice for so many so called asylum seekers , the UK ? If they have fled from central Asia they would hit southern Europe first but choose not to settle there but instead make the long journey to France and then pay £4000 for a rubber dinghy illegal trip to the UK where they will be housed and put on the benefit system . Asylum seekers do not have to any skills , job offers or any command of the English language . Where it says , Applicants must demonstrate their ability to communicate in English (A-level or equivalent). That has to be a joke because many of the eastern Europeans struggle to make any sense with a weak English speech . Am I right that Australia process their asylum seekers , not in Australia but in a Pacific island ?Indeed that is what Suella Braveman wants to do but in Rwanda and Peru . I hope she succeeds .

I have never changed more than £100 at swampy because generally I am tired after a long flight and in a hurry to get a taxi . What I have found is that if using a money exchange booth , especially in Pattaya , they will only accept good quality notes that are not damaged or have not been written on .

Did you buy your printer in Surin ? because I shop there every week from Prasat

Can you remember the name of the printer with the built in printer head in the cartridge ?

Thanks for the info but when doing normal day to day printing is the paper foldable ?