Scouse123

And what about thoroughly investigating, properly, SERIOUS criminal behavior carried out against tourists?....... Rapes, murders, Armed robberies, gratuitous violence from mob handed motorbike taxi ranks, etc Throw him in jail? You've already decided he's too blame? Were you there? I am from the UK and I feel no shame whatsoever about being British........................BECAUSE......I don't behave in ways that I should be ashamed.

Well, if he is and that's true, ( which it isn't ) he's working in a job reserved for Thais without a work permit. In the Southern islands you will find plenty of Muslims and Muslim names!

11 pages and much ado about nothing, apart from a customer and taxi driver dispute. None of us were there, so it is just guesswork to decide whether the British man was cheated or you wish to go down the line it was an unprovoked attack on an innocent taxi driver. The driver wasn't seriously injured, so it seems a mountain out of a molehill. There have been far more vicious attacks committed by these taxi mafias than there have against them, and always described as ' a misunderstanding' a basket of fruit to go with a bruised ego, and a 500 baht fine, why is this different? However, it's anti farang couple of months, isn't it, especially on that island that never seems to be out of the news of late, either by accident or media driven.

Then stop posting like you are one, then.

The person collecting the rent will know who the owner is and where they are.

These are people who have gone about their applications the right way or manner. The vast majority are Ukrainians and Hong Kong BNO passport holders. And how many ILLEGALS just disappear into the mist without attending appointments or interviews, once they have got into the UK. We are seeing large arrivals now from India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and a host of other countries where there is NO CONFLICT. These are just people wanting to move to a ready-made country to improve their economic prospects. Those in boats arrivals have been deemed not to be real asylum seekers, more opportunistic migrants, these practices are fuelling the black marketeers from Albania and other criminal enterprises. They also know every trick in the book to avoid deportation assisted by smart ass immigration lawyers, such as refusing to give country of origin and grinning whilst they throw passports into the sea.

Ukrainians are genuine refugees and fleeing war and would be very happy to return to their home country as soon as the fighting ceases.

Back in the old days, guys like in the top photo above were happy to embrace British culture and blend in.

So, in your view, why do we have borders around the world at all? Yes, we wanted our borders back, but not EU's immigrant problems. Let's have a free for all. What an absolutely ill thought out daft comment you made.

Let's get a few million more over there to the EU/Ireland, then seal the border from the North!😂 EU hasn't given a damn about the boats, nor has France in particular bearing in mind the amounts of money they are charging the UK to supposedly stop the flow.

Europe, especially Germany, allowed this to happen and, in fact, encouraged it to a large degree in the early days until the full ramifications came home to roost.

They are economic opportunists shopping for their preferred state which will give them the most benefits, they aren't fleeing conflict. Charity begins at home, the UK is generous to a fault with foreign aid etc., time to look inwards and look after our shores.

It doesn't prevent them, either, even though it receives massive amounts of cash from the UK to stop them.

Do you really want to?

Online accepted my application three times and then it came back, after a day or so, as rejected three times, telling me to contact immigration. The first time I applied too early. The second two applications, the response just told me to contact immigration. I am up in Kalasin, so on Saturday morning, I posted my application. I enclosed the SAE and sent it by registered post. I am well inside the window of 15 days before the 90-day online date, I will see what happens this week. If no joy or response, it's a trip to the city beginning of next week.

A lot of Thais drive off because they are afraid in ' Thai logic ' that if they hang around, the police will think they have something to do with it. Alien to western thinking and sensible driving, I know.

Of course, it makes sense, it is saying never to second guess or presuppose what another driver intends to do. This is because you don't know what is in their head. This means driving defensively and not putting yourself in harm's way, by thinking you know the course of action the other driver intends to take. Allow the potential danger to pass and then move when the road is clear

Of course it is One of the first things I was taught in the UK when learning to drive. Do you drive a vehicle?

But, it's their government giving Chinese visa-free and Russians 90 days visas etc I mean Phuket from my understanding is becoming a Russian enclave all encouraged by the Thai government. They talk about over-tourism, and as soon as it dips, they are pulling all kinds of rabbits out of the hat to get it back up. What do they want?

He should get a fair old sentence for that little lot.

Exactly! Anyway, with the charges levied against him now, it will be long jail time and rightly so. Dirty animal.

A Toyota Fortuner for the main doctor and a pickup for each assistant. It will go down a bomb!

I used to own land and property in the resort cities, through my companies etc I did the houses in Isaarn, for my other half whilst I was active in business in the big cities. I am glad we did them way back when. Now, when I see how it is all developing, constant rule changing, the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, these latest ideas about taxing ex-pats on foreign income, overt nationalism, and in cases, racism being displayed by the government ministers, I am glad to be out of it. The country is becoming a giant basket case of errors and mistakes, by those in charge, it's worse than ever. They leap from one cockup to the next.

The Motorbike rider probably just came off his phone!.................as well as his bike!

I agree with you and it's almost as though the reporters ' get off ' on the fact it is a foreign driver. Xenophobia is well and truly at work here. We see daily Thais fleeing the scene of fatal accidents and that includes bus drivers, who have been under the influence of drink or drugs. A great deal of them drive unroadworthy vehicles and are uninsured. Those incidents are not newsworthy but put a foreigner into the mix, and the "outrage by netizens" is just for good measure. Plenty of them need to focus on obtaining the necessary driving skills and competency tests before taking to the roads, instead of playing ' Let's blame foreigners for all our woes '