Mr Meeseeks

A basket of chicken essence for each of the victims, wai and 500thb fine.

Decent whataboutery there. 7/10

He will be worse off in a UK jail as a nonce.

He is above you in the hierarchy because he is a Thai with low status. You are a foreigner.

That's not the way it works in Thai culture. You obey authority, do not speak out, and you do as you are told.

By what metric? Certainly not on the roads.

Some points: 1. Thailand has no democracy, fragile or otherwise. It's a feudal system in which the peasant class pays taxes to different gangster clans that control separate regions. The electorate has no actual power. 2. Move Forward did not get enough votes to form a government on their own and so needed a coalition. Pheu Thai stabbed them in the back and sold them down the river. 3. None of them have any respect for democracy or the democratic process. They are all in it for themselves for self-enrichment and ego. 4. Thaksin will never go to jail.

I hate to break it to you, but he's never going to jail, and he's never going to stop trying to run things.

Likely someone that knows of him and how much money he had passed information to the 'scammer'. Thailand is a country built on jealous informants. Nearly everything that happens is due to a tip-off or similar.

I don't think you understand how it works. Nobody is going to move any money if they have nothing to hide or have done nothing wrong. They target people they know have something to hide, otherwise there is no point.

Good luck with that. The whole country is built on corruption and the authorities do work in that way, i.e. demanding bribes to make charges go away, hence gullible people will continue to send money. Also, how many of these alleged 'victims' are completely innocent? Maybe they have skeletons in the closet or are actually guilty of something, which possibly goes to explain why they send the money in the first place instead of going straight to the authorities. 🤔

I’ve lived in Thailand 34 years and have had more issues with ladyboys in Bangkok than I ever have in Pattaya. I rarely go to Walking Street though. Ladyboy pickpockets used to actively target farangs on lower Sukhumvit and Asok. Mind you, if you are old enough to remember, the whole area down from Soi 33 to Soi Zero used to be beer bars, and not the offices and malls we see these days.

The long-awaited crash in the Thai economy looks to be here. Buckle up folk, we are in for a bumpy ride.

They are expats on Non-immigrant visas that meet the financial requirements to obtain permission of stay. It's a facile and pointless comparison.

The link to the UK Gov immigration website that I posted earlier suggests otherwise.

I think the voters will at this election. British people have had enough, and rightly so.

Where do you deport someone to if they don't have a passport or any records?

The total amount spent on hotels and support for asylum seekers ballooned to £5.4bn in 2023-24 https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/asylum-seekers-hotel-overspend-treasury-2931907?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4MSzBhC8ARIsAPFOuyVvJJBgB1Bf3iHnJJMkl5uQ7KA5ocrpLjRkSVL9m7nNf_ZZs6f1dygaApgFEALw_wcB

No there isn't. Illegal immigrants arrive on small boats and then claim asylum. More than 60% of these are bogus claims and get refused. See link above.

They should be in a suitable accommodation block, not in hotels paid for by the UK taxpayer. If you claim asylum in Thailand, you are detained while the case is processed. Over 40 Uyghur asylum seekers have been in immigration detention for well over a decade.

In 2022, there were 3,860 enforced returns. An incredibly small number. If you look at the trends, fewer illegals are being detained and deported while many more are arriving. It's not sustainable. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2023/how-many-people-are-detained-or-returned

Illegal immigrants that 'claim asylum' do.

They claim asylum and are given government support including accommodation and benefits.

None of them migrants either.