Jumbo1968

I understand it 100%, you don’t agree the money in the system Agents use,

Why are you concerned about the money in the bank, does it affect you personally, if not move on.

He didnt have a clue what I was on about basically, he isn’t going to do anything is he, I have a place in the U.K., I used to rent it out, apart from the Gas Safe Certificate you now have to provide an Electrical Certificate when renting a property.

Not new to Thailand been here 10 years, we have 3 pin sockets, it was only when I removed the cover from one I noticed there was no earth wire.

I have some new appliances with metal cases which only have 2 pins no earth.

I am thinking of some sort of safety device to fit in the consumer unit

There is no earthing in my rented house not even an earth wire at the consumer unit, apart from rewiring the house which is out of the question there is no way the system could be made to accommodate a 3 wire system and instal an earth rod. We have some metallic appliances as well which are only 2 pin, I have noticed Home Pro or Big C no longer sell Extension Leads with 2 pins plugs. We don’t plan on moving is there any safety device that could be fitted in the Consumer Unit currently only MCBs ?

The U.K. Government have handed over another £500 million to the French, probably give it to the smugglers to buy more boats.

Surely the French see the people massing around the beach areas, some days they must be hundreds, I don’t think the. French make much effort to stop them. Hey it might be like Thailand, a few brown envelopes to turn a blind eye ?

I would have thought when they reached a safe country they would be detained as they are illegal, it would appear EU countries make no effort to detain them or house them in hotels like the U.K. do.

Couldn’t have put it better.

To arrive in the U.K. they would have to have a visa, normal visitor visa is 6 months, they wouldn’t have been allowed to board a flight with out a valid visa.

I am aware of the difference, Illegal is entering the U.K. with out a visa, legal immigration is entering the U.K. with a visa. Prior to brexit people from the member states could enter the U.K. without a visa, they still had go through Passport Control as we weren’t a member of Schengen.

Not the point pre Brexit there was no fee, with a family it will add to the cost their cost of their holiday. If the UK were still in the UK there would be no fee.

Farage has a lot to answer for as has he was the one quoting this, we now have more immigration than pre brexit. Unfortunately stopping the Freedom of Movement has seen a huge labour shortage in the labour market. Another consequence of brexit is any non Eu citizen visiting an Eu country will have to compete a ETIAS online and pay a €7 fee in 2024.

Apply for a visa is the only legal way in their own country as was stated then apply for Asylum when you get to the U.K if the visa is granted.The people who are crossing the channel are paying substantial amounts of money to the traffickers so can well afford the fares. The majority of visa claims probably would be refused as they couldn’t provide claims they were being persecuted more so the young Albanians even Iranians. The other stumbling blocks would be they are no facilities to apply for a visa in their home country although it can all be done online, if granted they might not be allowed to board an aircraft by their own authorities. My biggest concern from statistics is the majority of boat people are male and between the ages of 25 to 35 years of age. Unfortunately genuine refugees haven’t the facilities to even apply for a visa or funds for a channel crossing.

Around 300 crossed the channel in 2016, last year it was nearly 23000, the government just sat back and let it happen. The old adage closing the gate after the horse has bolted

We have ‘donated’ £240 million to France to help stop the boat crossings which have increased and £140 million to Rwanda where not 1 refugee has been sent albeit they can only take 200. It was supposed to discourage boat crossings but it hasn’t, lawyers and hoteliers are making millions. I don’t see this new law changing anything, it’s unfixable, lots of desperate people out there and the system can’t cope them.

You can cheaper taxis to the airport than Bolt, 1000/1100 baht.

I think most establishments with a few very skimpily dressed girls sitting outside could be classed as brothels. Nick Dean of NDTVI has a few for sale on his live YouTube video on a Sunday night, he calls it the casting couch, so yes there are all flavours.

Gentlemans clubs polite name for a brothei, why are they behind closed doors ? German lives adjacent to me, his wife who runs a club was asking around for girls to work in the club which she said had short time rooms.

No idea, I don’t use it anymore, I don’t do Gentleman’s Clubs, overpriced beer bars.

Prices will never come back to to pre Covid or pre Ukrainian conflict levels, people become accustomed to paying them that includes airfares where if airlines can fill planes at the current prices they won’t reduce them.