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3 hours ago, aright said:
Brexit for some has been a great success
Quite, but it would be the brexiteers worst nightmare to be part of a similarly successful union.
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13 hours ago, aright said:allowed the EU to make and give us 12500 regulations without Parliamentary scrutiny.
You obviously believe that EU legislation was ratified by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats of which the UK had no part.
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You have to look on the bright side, think of the job creation widening the motorways. The Europeans can go in another direction.
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1 hour ago, melvinmelvin said:
no, not so far
The question was rhetorical.
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4 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:
The worrying bit is that in modern times the foggy islands have an elected government that plays tricks to circumvent normal parliamentary customs and ways of working.
Are you trying to imply that this government could be responsible for any "ill thought out legislation".
"The government plans to enact its "corrections" to the statute book using what are known as Henry VIII powers, after the Statute of Proclamations 1539 which gave him the power to legislate by proclamation.
Given that this will not involve the usual Parliamentary scrutiny process, opposition parties have protested, with Labour claiming ministers were being handed "sweeping powers" to make hasty, ill thought-out legislation."
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4 hours ago, OJAS said:
The fiasco to which you refer was the one arising from excessive delays across the board in issuing new passports on account of HMPO being overwhelmed following the transfer of responsibilities from the FO - which was not, of course, confined to passport renewal applicants living in Thailand.
The fiasco to which I am referring was the new requirement introduced at the same time specifically for passport renewal applicants living in Thailand to have to make (or arrange) 2 physical trips to Bangkok - instead of being able to post/courier their applications direct to Hong Kong (or the UK) and have their new passport directly couriered to them from the UK, as was possible under previous FO procedures.
All part and parcel of the same thing, once the Home Office got involved they made VFS their agent. I had to go through the British Embassy, VFS didn't want to know.
It is a bit of a worry that the person that thought the changes would be an improvement is now trying to fry bigger fish.
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3 minutes ago, OJAS said:
Indeed - and I suspect that this lies at the heart of the problem, as I see things.
I wonder whether, once they had taken over the passport renewal reins here, HMPO threw their hands up in horror at the procedures followed by the Foreign Office - and, consistent with an apparently paranoiac obsession with security, abruptly inflicted the present arrangements on us 3 years ago. But this is, of course, pure speculation on my part in the absence of any clarification or meaningful explanation on HMPO's part.
I would not have any objection in principle to having to make a couple of difficult trips to Bangkok (or have these trips undertaken on my behalf) at passport renewal time if HMPO's rationale for making the change was based on actual tangible evidence of widespread passport abuse which was directly attributable to the Foreign Office procedures, as opposed to some paranoiac perception of the risk based on a knee-jerk reaction made in panic.
But, of course, I doubt whether HMPO would be prepared to criticise their Foreign Office colleagues in public - which is what might well be the consequence of some full explanation in this particular instance. So, instead, the Government as a whole closes ranks by adopting a "least said soonest mended" approach aimed at "saving face" Thai style.
In practice, the changes made 3 years ago have, of course, proved increasingly radical the further away we live from Bangkok. Unfortunately, it would appear that, to quote the Foreign Secretary recently, we can all "go whistle" for a meaningful explanation - which, I reiterate, is totally unsatisfactory IMHO.
I got caught up in the fiasco. After several panic emails my passport came back just short of 11 weeks after application, 3 days before I became an illegal immigrant. I had to apply for a marriage extension to get the 30 day under consideration and immigration told me that if no new passport not to bother going back.
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On 9/8/2017 at 10:27 AM, Grouse said:
This is dangerous
We need Brexiteers on board to stop this
Quite, but those with their head in the sand can neither see or hear.
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17 hours ago, notmyself said:
It's a question of finding the right balance and not just a black & white end result. This was perhaps the biggest lie (?) started by those who wished to remain and was very effective. Throwing out some unnecessary regulations would be a good thing but Brexit was cast as throwing out all regulations in order to scare people.
Same old argument, everything was intended to scare people irrespective of any validity. Nobody ever said that any regulations would be thrown out, just "corrected" to suit the new regime.
The writing is on the wall.
Without the fix, it would be impossible to force through up to 1,000 “corrections” to EU law as intended through the EU (Withdrawal) Bill – the reason for the accusations of a power grab.
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15 hours ago, baansgr said:
Oh, The Independent again.....The source is from people I know living in an area where wages have barely increased in 10 years whereas rents have almost doubled due to the massive increase in the population.
Of course shoot the messenger, they obviously carried out the studies.
Obviously you believe your circle of mates are more credible than the Institute of Fiscal Studies, up to you.
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21 hours ago, OJAS said:
What magically changed 3-4 years ago as to cause HMPO to impose this totally unreasonable burden on us, I wonder?
Overseas passports were moved from the Foreign Office to the Home Office(Teresa May)
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1 hour ago, baansgr said:
Yes it is a fact. The days of consevatives liking cheap labour and keeping the working class down are now long surpassed by the never ending stream of wage supressing EU nationals causing untold harm on workers rights that the Labour luvvies like.
" wage supressing EU nationals causing untold harm on workers rights"
Please provide the source of this statement as there appears to be some contradiction.
“It showed that immigration had very little impact on wages or employment. But this was suppressed by the Home Office under Theresa May, because the results were inconvenient.”
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Is this what taking back control really meant?
A late-night Commons vote to secure the Conservatives the muscle to use so-called “Henry VIII powers” to make new laws – behind the backs of MPs – will be staged next week.
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3 hours ago, vogie said:
Sorry to dissapoint you SW, but one of your colleagues asked for examples of stupid EU regs/directives, I simply provided a few of the many inane laws. Even you must admit the stupidity of laws?
That last comment sounds just like my old boss.
"What have customers, their concerns or their safety got to do with anything"
As far as he was concerned EU directives were nothing more that a barrier to profit.
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1 hour ago, pitrevie said:
Nope that was accomplished long before Heseltime was involved. If you recall MacGregor was appointed by Margaret Thatcher and proceeded with Scargill's help destroying the coal industry.
Scargill would have destroyed the industry without anyone's help. I went on a trade mission to the Transvaal in 1985 and the SA coal industry was fully automated, a complete contradiction to what he tried to portray. Automation was the last thing that Scargill wanted, in his eyes workers were just pawns in a power struggle.
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23 hours ago, baansgr said:
And wasn't a state of emergency called at least twice more within the first few years of joining. A lot at that time can be accounted to the oil crisis.
So you accept that there was pain before the EU.
The last time a state of emergency was declared was in March 1974 when the UK government re-established direct rule in Northern Ireland. It was only the 3 day week at the end of 1973 that had anything to do with oil.
During the Conservative government of Edward Heath there were five declarations of emergency under this Act, by far the most any government. The first was in July 1970 over a dockers strike, the second in December 1970 over an electricians strike, the third in February 1972 over a miners strike, the fourth in August 1972 over another dockers strike and the fifth time in October 1973, which lasted for four months.
In the total time it was on the statute book this Act was used twelve times, the last time being in 1974 and mainly used in times of industrial unrest (i.e. strikes).
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Couple of months back I got a TP Link neffos C5 from Lazada for about 3800 baht, works for me. Dual sim, SD card and the main thing, a replaceable battery. The battery in my HTC became swollen and split the phone.
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Brexit means brexit, well apart from the cracks.
Two of Theresa May’s most senior ministers have distanced themselves from her Brexit plans, it has been reported.
Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary and Damian Green, the First Secretary of State, are both said to have expressed “reservations” about Ms May’s leaked immigration plans.
Theresa May will make a key concession over her new Brexit legislation in an attempt to kill off any chance of an embarrassing early Commons defeat at the hands of Conservative backbenchers, The Independent can reveal.
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4 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:
The was no pain before UK joined the EU…
Is that selective memory or just not old enough.
In the 12 months prior to joining the EEC the UK declared a state of emergency twice, maybe not a pain to some but it certainly was to many.
It was also a condition of joining the EEC that the UK lifted the £50 currency restriction. That wasn't such a big deal as very few could afford to go abroad, the cheap Spanish holidays were yet to come.
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5 hours ago, pitrevie said:
You do realise we are still in the EU and the single market. Its going to be interesting to see what transpires when we leave.
Many seem oblivious to the fact that the volume of trade between the UK and the EU and vice versa has come about because of the single market. When the bureaucracy that was in place prior to the single market reappears, only the delusional can think that volume will be maintained.
The white van men will be furiously stocking up on cross channel merchandise as their time is rapidly running out.
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4 hours ago, dotpoom said:
In order to obtain an IDP you would have had to have a regular driving licence for your country.....would that not have been sufficient to obtain your Thai licence ( along with a small test, if I remember correctly).
Quite, an IDP has no validity unless accompanied by a national licence.
As far a s a Thai licence is concerned it would appear to be at the DLT office discretion. When I went for mine at Chonburi they were not interested in the national licence only the IDP.
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On 9/6/2017 at 0:21 PM, Mario666 said:
Thanks again UJ....I feared that would be the case.
Coincidentally, I just had to return to the UK earlier than I wanted because my passport was due to expire in February 2018. I asked at Samui immigration if I could get an extension until the expiry date of the passport and they said NO! I must have at least 12 months validity to get the extension and they would not give me less than 12 months....thereby preventing me from achieving my goal!
I also asked "Herbert" (The Austrian visa-run agent guru on Samui) and he told me the same.....maybe this is a Samui Immigration Office rule????
I have had the same problem with the renewal due mid July, that stemmed from the passport fiasco a few years back. This year I let the extension expire while I was in the UK and came back on a single entry Non O. Took 3 days to get the visa by post.
From now on renewal will be around end of October.
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No surprise there, higher paid workers are leaving of their own volition.
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5 minutes ago, transam said:
Typical LOS, nobody knows what they are doing...
There can sometimes be a plus in there somewhere, there was no sign of videos being shown at Chonburi.
May ready for tough talks over Brexit
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You disagree. So you believe that if circumstances were different the brexiteers would be happy with the same criteria as the "successful" union that was being referred to.
Common currency
No borders
Central administration
Federal army etc etc.