Phulublub

Your insurance company? You could always try a different one. Or a broker... Utter BS to suggest that every single vehicle on the roads in Thailand over 7 years old only has compulsory insurance. PH

Depends on yoru home country, and the country(ies) you may visit. For the UK, you can drive on a Thai Licence for up to a year. That may or may not also be the case for others. Also for the UK, if you emigrate (as you have done) by law you must surrender your UK Licence. May ignore this and, indeed, renew using a family or friend address as theirs to receive the new one. The bigger problem may be if you need to rent a car. Some rental companies will charge more for insurance, or not rent at all if only a Thai Licence is offered. You may also need an IDP - an Internatinal Driving Permit, alongside your Thai Licence (there is no such thing as an International Driving Licence, though many refer to the IDP as an IDL). PH

That it has been the system for a long time does not make it roght, or mean it works well. For rather more than 300 years other, even more archaic systems were in place. Did their longevity mean they worked well? If not, then if OK to change them, then OK to change this. If they did, why were they discarded? PH

So what Alex Salmond said counts, but what the Leader of the UK Inpedendence Party - the ones who led the charge to leave the EU - doesn't? Hypocrisy writ large! PH

How is this in any way different to Nigel Farage saying a 52/48 Brexit vote would be unfinished business? PH

I'll have a go: Trading - you need them more than they need you. rUK has made over 70 trade deals since Brexit doncha know. Energy - now the turkey is well and truly ready cooked, they can turn off the ovens. No need for so much energy. Job done. Water - climate change is bringing more rain to the whole of the UK, not just the sunny uplands. No need for new reservoirs as the ones we have will be more than enough as they fill up again quicker. _________________ meanwhile, back on planet Earth....

Says a man who is happy that the UK walked away from its biggest trading partner! But once again, if they are such a drain, you should be helping them out the door so rUK can prosper. The total strawman of being in EU and independent deserves no further input. PH

Unnecesary and perhaps showing your anti-Scottish bias. It is entriely possible to be pro-Independence and not anti English. But that would probably not fit your narrative. PH

"52-48 power but no legitimacy." Who said that? "52-48 will be unfinished business." Who said that? (Hint: Not a Remainer) PH

Whereas the UK-wide majorithy for Brexit was huge. Overwhelming. Massive. Unambiguous. Decisive. Yeah, that mere 10% swing would be a game changer! PH

And since then, how many times have the SNP - who's central plank and pretty mucbh single reason for existence is Independence - been successful in elections? Aparently, having multiple quick fire reruns is OK for the Nasty Party, whose 180,000 get to choose the PM, but not for a Country!!! PH

The uncertainty is exactly why many of us voted to stay in 2014. Why is that so very hard to understand? That so many are now willing to risk this uncertainty should tell you something. But - again - if many are not, then another referendum really will put things to bed as the landscape is not going to undergo such a huge change in the near future. It is not Sturgeon (for whom I have no time) but the Scottish people. If they are so gullible to fall for her rhetoric (if that is what is is), then what business is it of yours? Let them go, if that is what they want. Or perhaps it is the English seeing that they may lose control over yet another colony that worries them so much? PH

Why not? Again, if the majority really do want to stay, what are you so afraid of? That 2 million Scots might make a mistake and put their X in the wrong box? The lack of appreciaton of just how much 2016 altered the political landscape is bizarre. If another referendum shows a lack of appetite for independence then that will be that. But remember the Holyrood voting system was set up to ensure that there was not a single party majority - that the SNP are pretty much there in any case says a good deal about the support they have in the Country. It really is not just the bampots who want independence. PH

If the majority of Scots wish to stay in the Union, then why are you so afraid to give them a vote on the matter? Ph

Not quite. In 2014 those were exactly the arguments I (and others) were making to stay in the UK. And there were enough of us, perhaps, to sway the vote to stay in the UK. Move on to 2016 and those were exactly the arguments I (and others) were making for staying in the EU. My arguments did not change one bit for either vote. A significant number who voted in 2014 because of these reasons, now see the disaster that they foresaw coming to pass and would rather throw their lot in with Europe than with England. PH

I have no idea. Best ask some Brexiteers... PH

Maybe they are having similar supply problems to some of the 7-11s? Several in central Pattaya have been without on many occasions over the past couple of weeks. PH

That sounds strangely similar to quite a lot of the Brexiteer talk about Brussels takng our money and deciding how much and where to give it back.....sauce for the goose? PH

Would that show that only 38% of the elgible voters actually voted to leave? Even fewer of those eligible voted to leave than Scots voted to stay....once again you are talking utter nonsense. PH

Not immediately obvious if seen from the sidebar....absolutely no need to be so rude to those trying to help. PH

Pattaya Makro on Sukhumvit had some last week PH

Again with the false narrative. I voted for Scotland to remain as part of the UK precisely because it was by no means a done deal that the Country could rejoin in short order, or on the same terms as we already had. That the SNP intended rejoining was utterly irrelevent to my stance. However, as the UK has since left the EU, I would wholeheartedly support an independent Scotland seeking readmission and on this I agree with the SNP . PH

Wrong. (again). It is not only his opinion. PH

Link please. But whatever the SNP say, I know how and why I voted and know a good number of people who state they did the same for the same reason. Perhaps the SNP have a different agenda to me and my feloow travellers. Certainly, for some of them, independence at any price is all that matters. There are more moderate (and sensible) members with whom it is possible to have rational and reasoned debate, something that it seems difficult to do here with those who cherry pick numbers.. PH

No, you proved the square root of sod all. Using incomplete data to support a conclusion you have already reached is a little bit sad. PH