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On 2/5/2020 at 11:20 AM, vogie said:
The 3 or 4 worst complainers on here just happen to be strong supporters of the SNP, a coincidence, I think not.
That could only come from someone that believes that all in favour of the brexit referendum were strong supporters of the conservatives.
It may come as a surprise to you but national interest and party politics are not one and the same.
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On 1/21/2020 at 9:41 AM, ubonjoe said:
I would say this is good proof of it. What are your sources that say otherwise.
You go to the train station on the Thai side of the border.
You were wrong to take something said as some sort of proof.
I arrived at Padang Besar yesterday morning on train No 45 from Bangkok and can confirm that the immigration facilities at the station operate in exactly the same way as they have done for many years, apart from the introduction of fingerprinting and X ray machines.
I got off the train and walked the few yards into Thai immigration, they have 3 desks and all were manned but everyone had to queue at the same desk. Down the passage to the Malaysian desks and stamped into Malaysia, luggage through the X ray and then over to the men in white suits for thermal imaging and passport check. I have a Chinese visa that they picked up on until they saw it was 6 months old, getting on for an hour to get into the station concourse.
I went back to the station a few hours later and bought a ticket for the Hat Yai shuttle, preferred to wait a bit in Hat Yai than at the station. Formalities were effectively the reverse of arrival, Malaysian immigration does not open for departing passengers until inbound passengers have been processed. You are then stamped out and pass through to Thai immigration and then on to the platform where officers ensure you go straight on to the train. The train doesn't leave until all passengers have cleared immigration.
It is fairly obvious that some that have travelled by road from Thailand to Padang Besar, or from Padang Besar station to Thailand by road, have failed to grasp the procedure for rail travellers and have been disseminating false information.
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Surprise surprise, we want out of the EU and then just cherry pick the regulations that are perceived as beneficial. Those that were unknowingly beneficial don't come into it.
“But even so, around two-thirds of them on mobile phone roaming and on flight compensation, say yes we should follow the European Union rules.
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4 minutes ago, rwill said:
I've seen some cardboard police with cameras set out on the road too, like those cardboard cars they use too.
The technology is quite amazing, they can lean in the window, show you pictures of your vehicle and write down the details.
Cardboard or not, you still get the fine through the post.
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1 hour ago, canuckamuck said:
The good news is that once you know where they are, then you only have to slow down in that area.
And the bad news is that there are police at the side of the road with hand held cameras. We were stopped near Laem Sing beach just a couple of weeks ago.
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18 hours ago, chilly07 said:
Can we get the Thai Government to enter into a reciprocal agreement including pensions? Can we get the 5000 frozen UK pensioners to lobby this Minister. Worth a try!
The UK government have no intention of any new reciprocal agreements, other than with the EU. Apparently it was the contribution by the expats in Europe that put the great in Great Britain.
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3 hours ago, nauseus said:
Another bunch of
gripesgrapes.One day the reality of the bunch will sink in.
Most strikingly, one third said they would consider moving either their businesses or themselves across the Channel to remain part of the EU and its huge market.
PS Not holding my breath.
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43 minutes ago, Bundooman said:I agree. I am in favour of Brexit and delighted we have the opportunity to choose who we trade with, Including Thailand.
Now, UK can subject all imports from Thailand at the same taxation levels as all the so-called luxury goods which are currently excessively and massively taxed on here in the land of smiles.
Or we can have 'a free trade agreement', providing we Brits can have the same rights here as those Thai Nationals over there. Right?
And enjoy the standards of living that we are accustomed to in the UK, or, specifically - me, (in case some smarta**es think we are less sophisticated than they are!
Only the naive would think that world is queuing up to do business with the UK. As already pointed out there is no such thing as a "free" trade agreement, they all come at a cost. Do people really think that the commonwealth nations will have forgotten how they were treated by Westminster in the past, there are no "friends" in trade agreements. India has already asked for more visas and NZ/Oz, like everyone else, want to sell more to the UK. Hardly surprising that Thailand and in particular Tesco are going to take every opportunity to increase imports to the UK. Greater imports is not in the UK interest and will impact greatly on UK jobs.
The US has it's sights on the UK pharmaceutical industry, big profits if they can jack up the price of medicines. Also out to remove the EU protected name arrangement to pursue greater sales to the UK.
Of course the brexiteer was never bothered about the knock on effects, or if Scotch comes from Scotland, if Cornish Pasties, Cumberland Sausage and the like are from England just as long as they got out of the EU.
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19 hours ago, scottiejohn said:
Basic state Pensions are NOT benefits
I would agree with the sentiment but I think that you will find that every government document regarding state pensions refers to it as a benefit.
The contributions made over the years were immediately paid out so unlike a private scheme there is no fund that you can claim on.
It is highly immoral that people paying the same contribution over the same number of years get a different pension based on where they live, unfortunately we are all well aware that morality is sadly lacking in Westminster.
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23 hours ago, BritManToo said:
In the last 4 years, the compound effect would have been 1,000 pounds/year.
Hardly peanuts!
That is not true. I got state pension in 2012 when it was £107, currently £129 so about 8 years to create £1150 differential.
But I would agree, no longer peanuts.
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On 2/1/2020 at 11:24 PM, evadgib said:
Very smart. Is that the Seaforth Highlanders?
Now that you mention it, I don't know, always assumed it was the Forres pipe band as he was in that for about 15 years after the war. He was in the Seaforths but seconded to the 9th Commandos and demobbed at the end of the war. I have a photo of the full band and my uncle who was born in 1927 is a side drummer so looks like after the war, possibly the TA.
Thanks for the observation and apologies for the digression.
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16 hours ago, Scot123 said:
I will toast my VE day with a beautiful malt whisky from my collection.
Savour it, now an endangered species.
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16 hours ago, nauseus said:I was never any good at ice skating.
Neither was my father.
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17 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:
I was replying to a poster who stated, on post number 10, that he had already obtained a certified copy of his passport and a certified translation at MFA , rather than assuming he got these for free I asked “ how much “.
Clearly you haven’t read the thread in its entirety .
As I said you should be more careful in how you say things. You were not responding to Post No 10 but to post No 24.
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36 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:
Obviously ????
So obviously your question should have been phrased differently, why ask something that may not apply, better to ask if there was expense rather than "How much".
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11 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:Why not just acknowledge that it's possible (and likely) most Scots think the union is a good thing?
Of course they do, virtually everyone in Scotland is a unionist, they want to belong to one union or another. The option to belong to both was taken away by the English nationalists.
You should really bear in mind it is the Scottish National Party and not the Scottish Nationalist Party, although it suits the purposes of some to say otherwise.
Only the naive would think that some of Labour voted conservative because they suddenly saw the light and conservative policy was the best thing since sliced bread.
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20 hours ago, evadgib said:
Methinks you need to brush up on some of the fine detail...
Not seen a pair of them for a long time, my father used to wear them.
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18 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:
Yes, but how much was your Embassy certified copy and translation at MFA ?
Nothing, if you are not asked. All I had to provide was a photo, they took copies of marriage certificate and passport.
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18 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:
Issued 26 July 2553 Expires 25 July 2563, clearly imprinted on the bottom left below my photo. I obtained mine as well as the yellow tabien ban after I married my wife, who I am now divorced from, and who is the daughter of the Phu Yai for Nong Saeng. He is the one who set the wheels in motion for me. The house is now in my daughters name.
In 2016 with the need to ensure registration of all migrant workers it went nation wide. The program actually started in 2551.
https://www.isaanlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Regulation-of-Pink-Card.pdf
Like quite a few things in Thailand, what is available to one is not always available to all. When I heard about them going nationwide I went along to the local Amphur here in Chonburi and they said they didn't do them but would shortly as they had sent someone on a training course. Went back a few weeks later and picked up the 7th one they had issued, and like the yellow book which I got in 2010, all free of charge.
I believe the validity only applies to those under 60, there is no expiry date on mine.
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Ball is back in Bojo's court.
The Scottish parliament passed a motion demanding that Boris Johnson allow another referendum on Scotland's place in the UK, pointing to Brexit as a "material change in circumstances" since the 2014 vote.
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14 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:The English and Scots entered a union back in 1707, of their own free will.
It was anything but "free will".
Not a lot has changed in 400 years, England still doesn't want Scotland to join ranks with the foreigners.
Suspicion and mistrust between the two countries had prevented the union throughout the 17th century. The Scots feared that they would simply become another region of England, being swallowed up as had happened to Wales some four hundred years earlier. For England the fear that the Scots may take sides with France and rekindle the ‘Auld Alliance‘ was decisive. England relied heavily on Scottish soldiers and to have them turn and join ranks with the French would have been disastrous.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Act-of-Union/
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20 hours ago, Forethat said:
So, you are referring to an article covering a paper where it is concluded that each UK citizen could have had £13,000 in a pension fund in case the UK government HAD set aside oil and gas revenue?
May I remind you that using that very same principle, this time based on tax expenditure per person in Scotland each year, that each UK-citizen would have had £70,000 in a pension fund had we saved the difference between what is spent on each citizen in the rest of the Union (except Northern Ireland).
https://fullfact.org/economy/scotland-england-public-services-spending/
The way I see it, you can just hand back the difference before you leave. £57,000 per jock.
Obviously a creative accountant, maybe one day you will recognise the difference between apples and oranges.
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21 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:The general trend on here has been for the pro-indi Scots to suggest that a referendum should happen asap because the majority in Scotland want independence. If that's not what you've been saying then I'm happy to apologise.
Apology accepted, and in response to this comment
"I don't think it's right to assume they would sacrifice the union in order to get back into the EU. Some would, some wouldn't."
Nobody should assume anything so it is fairly obvious that a referendum is required asap to determine the way forward.
It is also fairly obvious from PMQ's that Bojo has a paranoid hatred of the SNP so he will be out to inflict as much damage as possible, Scotland does need to move quickly.
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On 1/28/2020 at 6:40 PM, bwpage3 said:
Impossible to do in places like rural Isaan where all of the local transactions are in cash.
No its not.
I was in China back in June and they are virtually cashless even out in the sticks. Everyone that takes money shows you a QR code and they just use their mobile phone, even the old ladies in the markets. I got some strange looks paying with actual cash.
Makes it very difficult for tourists as many services are automatic and unattended so cannot be used.
Thailand visa on arrival available in Padang Besar
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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Incorrect information.