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9 hours ago, colinneil said:

Global security is a lot more certain now with Trump as the new President.

Fortunately Americans have seen sense and not elected that war monger Clinton.

Putin and Trump i think will try to work together for World peace.

I agree with that. Russia being out in the cold so to speak is not what the world needs, Russia needs to be and should be brought into a closer alliance with Europe especially and the USA for the good of everyone.

1 minute ago, crankshaft said:

saw this on the internet...I loled...

 

"Dear Hollywood celebrities, Some of you I really like, some of you I admire. But make no mistake, the only reason you exist is for my entertainment. Some of you are great eye candy. Some of you can deliver a line with such conviction that you bring tears to my eyes. Some of you can scare the **** out of me. Others make me laugh. But you all have one thing in common, you only have a place in my world to entertain me. That’s it. You make your living pretending to be someone else. Playing dress up like a 6 year old. You live in a make believe world in front of a camera. And often when you are away from one too. Your entire existence depends on my patronage. I’ll crank the organ grinder; you dance. I don’t really care where you stand on issues. Honestly, your stance matters far less to me than that of my neighbor. You see, you aren’t real. I turn off my TV or shut down my computer and you cease to exist in my world. Once I am done with you, I can put you back in your little box until I want to see you again.

Love that! 

The worlds wildlife has certainly taken a beating ever since China opened its doors and began to eat its way through the worlds wildlife.

Thank god by the time they join Europe,  the UK will be out of their reach is all I can say. The last thing the UK needs is to have families intent on killing each other move there.

I get it! Foreign Tourist touches a starfish in Andaman Sea - fine 10,000 baht

Thai Company kills 20  of worlds most endangered creatures - fine 500 baht

Seems to make sense

I know as a foreigner, that it's normal for countries in monsoon regions to flood annually, so why do they always seem to be so shocked by it? Thailand has to learn to work with nature and not think it can control it. It really can't.

14 hours ago, IsaanUSA said:

Seriously?  He's the guy that cleared the "pavements"

I thought it was Sukhumband  who ordered pavements cleared, not Pol. Gen. Aswin Kwanmuang

I wonder if the new governor will undo the decision to clear all the pavements with immediate effect, to bring happiness back to the people?

Wasn't a Roman Legion supposed to have been trapped one time in China somewhere? Maybe evidence of that.

It's all about the tuna & Thai Union

14 minutes ago, Khun Han said:

 

Without wishing to drift too much offtopic, this is imo to a large extent the Thatcher government's chickens coming home to roost. They saw the future of UK inc as services (particularly financial) oriented. They decided that the best way to deal with outdated, union-strife-ridden heavy industry was to help along it's demise, rather than modernise it. I think the foreign owned car manufacturing plants give us an indication of where we could have been, had they taken a more balanced view back then. Instead, we have this absurd boom and bust economy that revolves mainly around the financial markets, and has opened up a huge, unwarranted, undeserved wealth gap in society.

 

By the way, most members can't read FT articles: it's a subscription service.

Exactly, Yes!

Link seems to have only gone offline this morning

10 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

trump was a black swan.

But if the republicans had not been hijacked by trump in a hostile takeover, KASICH would be creaming Hillary. Rubio would also have been strong. 

This makes sense to me. Team Hillarys best chance was not to go against someone intelligent or articulate

Very good article in FT the other day, basically saying that we are at a point where we will need to restructure our economy, the same way as Germany & Japan had to after WWII, the shift is that big. We need to stop relying on the city and financial services to drive the economy and move more to other sectors. 

I think this makes complete sense, the spiral of money centred on the city was always a stupid idea. We need a more balanced economy, and like Germany & Japan, we might actually come out of the whole thing stronger. At least that is the hope isn't it?

FT Article

Mervyn King - that old geezer who ran the BoE for a while doesn't think there's anything to worry about

Mervyn King

Surely suicide must be on the table? Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet

I'm starting to think that during the primaries, Clintons team actively helped get Trump the ticket, as she could have never won against any other GOP nominee

Thai Union aka John West. If there was ever a  company that needed investigating here it is.

BMC bemused that run-off always seems to head to Bangkok.

Harsh but the idiot brought it non himself. It went like this apparently

Yorkshire MEP walks into his auditorium where Woolfe was giving a speech, Yorksghire MEP heckles Woolfe about his decision to defect to Tories 24 hours earlier. Woolfe takes off his jacket and says those immortal words "right you! outside now"

Yorkshire MEP obliges and decks him. Woolfe goes back to Auditorium but collapses 30 minutes later.

The tip of the iceberg I'm afraid. Coming soon to a wet market near you...

The boy from Cleethorpes did good! 

The figures I quoted were for money sent electronically it takes no account of money taken home by immigrants as cash or other. Basically the UK is hemorrhaging money to the rest of the world. Best figures available show migrants take out between 25-37% of all money they earn. Good for them, but not good for UK economy.

Hope they performed the dude test on this competitior

Very late to the conversation, but one thing that has always amazed me, is when the government tries to convince everybody that immigrants are a net benefit to the economy.

This is just one big fat lie. From the report the govt uses to justify itself

Quote

We have no direct source of information on immigrants’ consumption patterns in the UK, and we thus cannot directly test the extent of immigrants’ under-consumption relative to natives. Therefore, we construct an alternative scenario, where we assume that the consumption of recent immigrants (those arrived since 2000) is only 80% that of natives with a similar income10. In practice, this assumption amounts to applying the effective tax rates to 80% of immigrants’ income.

They estimate immigrants spending "consumption rate" to be 80% of non migrant spending.

This is pure fantasy. If you look at the figures for remittances from UK, they are nearly £17 billion pounds. That money has never been factored into the calculations.

The whole thing is just one big con to stop us from getting too teed off

7 hours ago, blackcab said:

Serious question: How do they stop rain water flooding the tunnel?

Presumably they have water pumps that automatically pump out water to above road. No doubt these will fail at first opportunity and tunnel will be closed within a week.

9 hours ago, maxcorrigan said:

Since most of them that voted for him were moslems i don't think they regret, with 420 mosques and growing in London that makes for a hell of a lot of moslem supporters

Not this time. Maybe they had some impact but only 640K muslims in London with popn of 8.6 million. He got in because voted in by Labour voters. Many of whom now are regretting his stance against Jeremy Corbyn and his general egomaniacal demeanour.