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The boat crossings have gone up as lorry crossings have gone down. The crossings are less likely to be impeded by the French as the UK left the Dublin Regulation and things are no longer a level playing field, it could be said the waves have become smaller.

But you felt it was perfectly ok to take what I said and make it into something else, hypocritical or what! You should respond to what is posted, not what you think is posted.

I was asked for one at Sri Ratcha, same province, they needed it for the home visit. The only consistent is the inconsistency.

My wife told me start of the month it would rain on the 13th, very cloudy and humid yesterday and I thought a day early. Thunderstorm came about 3am this morning. Not before time, our tanks were getting a bit low.

Never going to happen. When rational thought starts to prevail, MPs remember that the ECHR is embedded in the Belfast Agreement and when put comes to shove no one wants to go there. Reunification would be the only way out. LONDON — Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and U.K. Tory leaders flirting with leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. https://www.politico.eu/article/tories-prime-minister-quit-echr-david-cameron-theresa-may-boris-johnson-liz-truss-rishi-sunak/

One day you may realise the difference between war refugees and economic refugees. Obviously you would have sent those from Ukraine back to where they came from.

One can only assume you are visually impaired, or never leave the house. Years ago my wife went swimming a great deal and we went to many pools around the area. They were always full of women in bathing suits, more so than bikinis, playing with kids in the pool. The beach is a different scenario altogether, too many strangers.

The reason for red plates was that years ago when everything was done in ledgers, registration of a new vehicle took quite a while. Use of a new vehicle was restricted because if you were involved with the police and they had to check the vehicle ownership it couldn't be done when the registration depts were closed. In 2015 they said they would soon have a quicker registration process in place and the red plates phased out within 2 years, I think the new legislation crashed somewhere along the road. I suspect many are more than happy to hang on to what they perceive as a status symbol, after all the police don't appear to be interested.

Not as easy as you make out. No guarantee the funds will remain in your account, the process is complicated and you only get one chance to get it right. If the seller disputes the claim it will take months to resolve. You get 120 days to make the claim so best to explore other options first.

And newbies want to think everything is black and white. One day you will learn.

You would need a pressure switch between the pump and the ball valve.

You are perfectly free to believe that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland never broke up and was renamed. Brexit has almost certainly confirmed reunification in due course with another change in name.

Spot on. There was a lack of collective responsibility a long time ago probably due to the US being so far away. The UN should have stepped up to the plate and tried to get nations to fund safe havens in north africa so sea crossings were not required. The movement of displaced people as result of war became a conduit for every other Tom, Dick and Harry. Had the war refugees been dealt with better the economic migrants would have been less of a challenge. A viable solution now has become that much more difficult.

Try and stay in context, or is that too much to expect.

Only the arrogant would be telling people to ignore law firms. One can only assume the phrase "If you don't ask, you don't get" is not in your vocabulary.

You shouldn't say things like that when you don't really know, I think somehow you were hacked. Despite what others have said new cards are not sent out "live" as you put it. The PIN would normally be provided separate. I have recently had a replacement card from HSBC which was sent to the branch and the PIN sent to my address. The card had to be activated on my account before it could be used.

I don't know if something has changed but when I got my card 2 years ago the first transaction on the card had to be chip and pin. I also had a zero value transaction, this required the PIN and it activated the card. I didn't provide a PIN got it from the website. Initially every transaction had a security check, normally asked to identify a recent transaction. That changed to an sms code or via the app, but not all transactions have to be verified, much the same as contactless where every so often that requires the PIN.

Time will tell, it always does.

Selective memory. The rhetoric was all about "open borders" as in Schengen and taking back control of UK borders. The UK has always had control of it's borders, even UK nationals have had to pass through immigration. Not something that those who have never left the country would know about. Farage, for his own ends, tried to convince the people brexit would solve an ongoing problem but it only made things worse. From 2007. "The plan has put the Home Office on a collision course with the Foreign Office, which is leading calls for the ban to be lifted. The impending row highlights deepening divisions in Whitehall over the best way to tackle economic migration, and comes at the end of a week in which three chief constables called for greater resources to cope with an influx of immigrants from eastern Europe." https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/sep/23/immigration.eu

There is no such thing as "correct" or "incorrect" information, it would be a question of the Amphur agreeing, or not. The term "usually" would be more appropriate, nothing is usually set in stone. There have been several reports over the years of people having been included in the blue book. Same with condo owners, some have had a blank blue book and some with their name in it. "If as a foreigner you have Thai family members such as a Thai wife then you can be included in the “Blue Book” of the Thai family which is also known as the Tabien Baan in local speak" https://www.lawfirm-bangkok.com/family/tabian-baan.html

This was one of the great misconceptions during the brexit campaign. The arch brexiteers like Farage made such an issue out of open borders that may who had never left the country came to believe that people from the EU could just enter the country without any check whatsoever. Schengen meant nothing to them.

Quite. Six years ago, Calais's infamous Jungle migrant camp was demolished by French police. Today, the camp itself has gone, but the migrants and the smugglers who profit from them remain. In fact, they are more numerous than ever before, with a record number of people attempting to cross the Channel in August 2022. The situation is putting a strain on relations between France and the United Kingdom. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/france-in-focus/20220916-calais-migrants-a-never-ending-crisis

You seem to be a bit confused. Thais do not have yellow books for you to be in, they have a blue book and you can be added to that. I lived with the in-laws initially but never bothered , just waited till the house was built and got a yellow book. A yellow book is for foreigners and can be issued in your name, you would need that before getting a pink card. As for the driving licence, not necessary and it can vary. Where I go they used to accept the yellow book as proof of address and then they suddenly stopped, insisted on the certificate from immigration.

It is not about democracy. The population were mislead into voting for potential gain, they were never advised about the potential pain. The whole fiasco has led the UK into advocating the breach of international conventions and the eventual breakup of the undemocratic "Union" known as the UK.

Maybe I am mistaken but wasn't there a new bill in the House this week, March 7th, and didn't the rules change in Oct 22 and Jan 21. Making things up as they go along.