James105

Because the answer was 42.

This particular clown is as stupid as she looks with statements like this. She should have apologized for taking an economy that was growing and changing it to one that is not. If she really wants to achieve higher growth step 1 on this vacuous "plan for change" would be to resign, and if they really want higher living standards for everyone then the head clown should call for a very early election and let someone with a modicum of sense take over running the country.

You mean like it used to be? Men competing against men.

Sentencing disparity between genders has been prevalent in all western countries for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity#:~:text=kill their husbands.-,United Kingdom,mitigating factors and case characteristics. What is new is the disparity between white and non-white criminals. I think that criminals who commit the same offenses should be treated equally and if a white man receives a 2 year sentence for smuggling cannabis then so should the brown man. Only a racist would think that someones skin colour should be a factor in the sentencing.

No, I would jail this person on the contents of his suitcase and his character which in this case he was carrying 40kg of drugs which means he is of questionable character. I would look at what other sentences have been given for similar cases and give the same without taking skin colour into account as to do so would (of course) be racist. I don't recall advocating pardoning anyone who has killed a policeman. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

Ah got it. So the 40kg he had in his suitcase was not deliberate? If you believe that nonsense maybe you would be interested in a bridge I have for sale. Do you know how much 40kg even is? Its about the weight of a Thai girl. Impossible to accidentally carry on a plane and nobody is carrying that kind of weight in suitcases for someone free of charge. Dean Pharoah (white male) was sentenced to 2 years for the same offense and the one I presume you are referring to is a celebrity white girl and there has always been a disparity between what males and females get sentenced to for the same offenses. You are a 2-tier justice denier.

Actually 2 years 3 months in jail for a white person. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5exjk22xo

Because Labour are moronic clowns they spent £10bn on giving public sector pay rises, and asked for nothing in return so those pay rises costs £10bn, or a "£10bn black hole" if you will. A more savvy negotiator (average 6th form student for example) might have asked for productivity improvements in return, so the pay rise could end up paying for itself and cost nothing. So now they have £10bn shortfall to make up.

They need fighting aged men then to rebuild the houses and infrastructure. By fortuitous coincidence there are tens of thousands of Syrian men that no longer need asylum in the UK that can be returned post haste to help them do this. Don't worry about funding, Labour love giving away UK taxpayers money to terrorist groups, they will be fine.

How about this guy, what do you think he should have got? He stabbed a guy to death in "self defense" around the same time as Penny but since it is a black man stabbing a black man no charges were even brought. No BLM outrage either. No demands for "punishment" from leftists. It's almost like nobody cares when black people kill each other, especially not the left.

I use dual sim and have a UK sim but there is no way (I can think of) that it would give you an IP address from the UK without a VPN. To connect to the internet here on your phone you would use a Thai mobile provider with roaming (3BB, AIS etc) and they would issue a public IP address from one of their ranges. If you go to https://www.whatismyip.com/ on that phone does it show your location as UK without a VPN?

I doubt it as many people are getting declined for this in the UK as well who happen to have lots of cash in their Starling bank accounts. Anyway, matters not there are better options than this and Trading212 has 4.9% interest rate for cash sitting doing nothing with interest paid daily so Starling have inadvertently spurred me into action to move some money there instead. I've never been convinced of the use of VPNs just to trick an app into thinking you are in a location you are not as there are ways to detect if someone is using a VPN (e.g high numbers of uses coming from the same IP address) which could cause a red flag to financial orgs so not something I plan to start doing.

Their logic doesn't make any sense, I only applied as its "easy" and apparently the automatic interest they apply to current accounts will be zero % next year. This is a scenario taken from a reddit thread here: "My girlfriend who has a credit rating off 546 was approved almost instantly. She has an overdraft with them too. My credit score is 988 and I have never been in debt and have 30k in my account with them. I got put on a review for 20 mins and then declined. Been declined 4 times now. I’ve taken all my money out now and will try 1 more time next week otherwise I’ll be banking elsewhere" Doesn't seem to be anything to do with location but its a bit annoying as for the visa I want to apply for (next year) I need to keep a significant amount of cash in the bank account to avoid the need to purchase insurance, and would obviously prefer it to make interest.

Well, 20% of the electorate voted for it. It's the 80% that did not vote for this I have some sympathy for as the damage could be irreparable in just a single term of this clown show, especially when they inevitably start to double down on their mistakes like gamblers chasing their losses.

Yes, I use Starling as my main bank account and I have a fair bit of cash in the account. When I had my UK company I also used a business account with them. It seems I'm not the only one, there is quite a large reddit thread with people getting declined for this savings account with no clear reason given as to why, but it does seem that people with large cash balances are getting turned down. Strange.

Just throwing it out there as Starling bank have just released an "Easy Saver" account which seemed like a bit of a no brainer to apply for it as it offers 4% interest on cash sitting in the bank that can be accessed immediately at any time without consequence. I have a bit of cash sitting in there so I applied. Surprisingly it said it needed to be "reviewed" and 24 hours later I received a notification that it had been declined... for a savings account! Not a mortgage, not a loan, not an overdraft, not a request to sleep with the bank managers wife/daughter... I have actually been declined for a savings account... this is a first for me. Anyone use Starling and had success with this? Don't really want to query it directly with them just in case they start to ask about where I am located etc. Prefer them to think I am shivering somewhere in the UK and not threaten closure of my account due to being in sunnier climates.

Starmer claims he is a product of a toolmaker and that alone provides ample opportunity for comeback gags that would be much harder hitting than the joke that Starmers script writers came up with for him. He is in the glassiest of glass houses from the idiotic things he has claimed, not forgetting his time in CPS where celebrity pedophiles were allowed to carry out their crimes with impunity and she should have had a better comeback than claiming "a conservative wouldn't be able to say that about a black labour MP". It's just lame and the kind of nonsense I would expect the likes of Lammy/Abbot to spout. I think her time as leader of the Tories will be short lived. One of their biggest donors (billionaire Nick Candy) has now defected to Reform and its only a matter of time before other "actual" conservative MPs start leaving the conservative-in-name-only party. The local elections next May could be a bit of bloodbath for both Labour and the Tories.

Amazing how useful the public can be in locating an on the run criminal if given something more to work with than just a description such as "man from Rotherham". Hopefully the UK police will take note of this proven to work tactic and will adopt such an approach in future for both white and non white suspected criminals on the loose.

As much as I would love the king to justify the money/privilege he receives by using his alleged power to demolish this absolute shambles of a clown show of a government, there is no way he would do so. He understands that he is tolerated so long as he doesn't actually rule over anything and he is well aware the moment he does will be the start of the end of the monarchy in the UK.

I agree with you (for a change) and it is embarrassing that Badenoch is lowering herself to race grifting. There was no racist intent in the joke that Starmers script writers provided for him and jokes are just that... jokes. This one was mildly amusing, completely harmless and only a weak leader would take umbrage with it. She is really not cut out to be a conservative leader and my concerns that she only got the job so that she could provide exactly this kind of DEI defense against Labour criticisms seem to be merited.

Ok thats fine as I have never been efficient at moving money from bank to investment anyway. So (and I am exaggerating for absolute clarity here I don't have this much money - sadly) if I have a £10 million bank balance in a UK bank account as at 31 December 2023 I can transfer up to £10 million into Thailand over the next several years/decades and I am not required to pay 1 single baht in tax on it?

So on that basis I could use the balance of my investments and bank accounts as at the end of 2023 and be confident that I can transfer up to that amount into Thailand over the next several years/decades without any of it being taxable in Thailand? I didn't realize it was that simple.

Every now and again this topic raises its head enough for me to notice and I think I am in similar waters (except IRS). My strategy was to transfer enough cash to last me 2 years at the end of last year and see what happens, with a view to spending 180 days outside of Thailand in year 3 when I then replenish the bank account with another 2 years worth of spending without incurring Thai tax. Like all the best, most meticulously laid out plans, it didn't meet with the reality so my 2 years worth of cash looks like it will last about 1.5 years. It's already been a year now since they announced this and I still have no idea if what I would classify as "savings" (income accrued overseas prior to 2024) is classified by Thailand as "income" when remitted into Thailand and subject to tax, so I am not optimistic I will be any the wiser in 1, 2 or 3 years time.

That figure might be correct if every single non-dom remains in the UK and does nothing whatsoever to either relocate or rearrange their tax matters. In reality it will be nothing like £3.2bn and just like every attempt to "tax the rich" it will probably end up costing more to the economy than it raises. Even the Tories were not so incompetent to go down that road. Just look at the reaction of farangs over here facing the prospect of being taxed on their overseas income (like the non-doms in the UK). Virtually every single one is looking at ways of avoiding this, by either gifting it, looking at double taxation treaties or simply ensuring they do not stay in Thailand for 180 days of a calendar year when they replenish their bank accounts.

Once these morons realise that growth has stalled and/or we are in recession and they cannot afford to give £13bn to overseas climate aid, or pay £5.8bn a year for illegal immigrants, or spaff £22bn on carbon capture, or the £13bn foreign aid budget, or £8bn on GB energy or any of the other virtue signaling vanity projects they will be faced with a "tough" choice.. To either scrap the spending on this nonsense or punish the working/middle class with means tested pensions (just for private sector workers), even more taxes or other punitive measures. I think we all know which option these morons will choose. My bet is on means tested state pensions for private sector workers as they really hate the pensioners.