DonniePeverley

What about if the UK or Thailadn did not allow dual citizenship.... So let's say you wanted to become a Thai citizen, but lost your UK citizenship. I doubt anyone would become a Thai citizen in that case.

You have no idea how UK voting representative system works. Farage on some very dodgy polls is doing well in very small samples, but when translated into seats it brings him up to 20 seats. People in the UK vote for constituencies. He has support in some regions, but to win seats and hold a majority you need to win seats around the country, run from the middle and for him he hasn't captured the centre vote. His flagship policy of Brexit was a disaster, and people will not trust him as much. Let's see how well he does at the local elections coming up, where usually a protest vote will kick in. The next UK election is in 4 and half years time. He has no chance of getting into power despite the nonsense you will be reading in twitter.

In some Indian states there has been moves to protects Christians and Catholics - where it is a minority religion. It's just about protecting minorities. What's wrong with that? Your racism and xenophobia can go to hell. Not every muslim is a terrorist or an idiot. Every religion, race, colour creed has good and bad people in it. We have laws to protect the Jewish community, quite rightly. Very strict laws infact. Nothing wrong with protecting the muslim community too, especially when a few idiots amongst them tarnish their whole religion and allow racists to use it against them. Anytime there is an incident, a shooting, anything my muslim friends panic in fear that a random Bob from Pattaya will now start attacking them if it is some idiot being an idiot using their religion. Why should they live in fear like that of taking abuse when it is nothing to do with them? Bob from Pattaya never mentions the IRA, or other horrific regimes that went on. Infact he is known to do a Nazi salute despite their horrific crimes. Sorry if Bob sitting in a Pattaya bar feels it may infringe on his rites to be racist. Tell you what ... try attacking Budhism in Thailand, see how well it goes for you. Try saying something against the Jewish community. But you won't because you will get into a little bit of trouble.

Oh dear .... no point arguing with these people.

It's about protecting minorities. I welcome it. Why should we let skinheads and racists destroy the society we have in the UK. The muslim population are not going away. So it's best we harmonise and live together. There were a raft of laws, that quite rightly protected the Jewish community too. This is about time needed. If you are a racist i can see why it would annoy you. But tough, there was an election in which Labour talked about these measures. Vote Farage and his 5 MP's , including someone who beat his girlfriend up.

So you are unhappy because you feel your ability to be racist or burn a holy book is being infringed upon ?

If they want to achieve more money, and they are not going to attract more wealtheir tourists, they will simply open the flood gates and let in more dross. This place is over. It's becoming Benidorm.

They will have to do this by letting in more cheap mass tourism. Hell on earth for any visitors though and any great experience. They will turn away high quality tourists. No sense of diversifying their economy like many economic think tanks have told Thailand. Any sort of war, trade war, dip in economy that hurts tourism is going to destroy the Thai economy due to an over reliance on cheap tourism. Ex Pm Sretta (who is still around it seems by the picture) decision to open up the borders to the word to anyone with a passport, to allow them to stay longer, be it criminals or very cheap tourists was a disgrace. Less is sometimes more.

Red public busses with black smoke continue to ride around Bangkok. Utter nonsense.

Seeing a few Canadian politicians saying the UK should stand with them Don't recall Canada coming to help the UK when we went through the self imposed barbarity that was Brexit.

Someone explain this to me .... So the American company pay the tarriffs, not Canada. Why Canada so bothered then?

London has been a playground for the rich of Saudi, UAE for years.

Do Thailand still black list people? Never here of that anymore much. This guy should be banned. Phuket usually attracts the cheaper Arab nations like Kuwaitis. They live alter ego lives, very religious back home but then act awful in Thailand, total degenerate like behaviour.

So can China buy Taiwan ? Also how much is Ukraine ? Whilst we at it, might as well some African countries. Sounds ridiculous doesn't it.

Hang on .... they want to boost tourism even more in Phuket ? Christ ...

Most Chinese tourists are not visiting because they are being turned off by cheap mass tourism - yes even the Chinese don't find it appealling.

LOW quality tourists. Double the low quality tourists, ruin your country, turn away quality tourism, and you may hopefully makeup the short fall. Hideous way to go about things.

Why is every horrific person like this heading to Thailand ?

Ironically i have thought about buying a car as getting on the BTS has been unbearable.

It was enforced once upon a time. The new regime though is terrified of tourists and upsetting them. It makes for a miserable experience for even other tourists.

The tourism experience has been ruined by the visa free policy to the world. Absolutely shambolic disgusting type of tourists have entered the country. It's harder for these countries to get into the African continent than getting into Thailand, which tells you the absurdity of the Sretta visa free panic policy. Covid and the loss of tourism during that time has really left Thailand low in confidence, and just taking this <deleted> these disgusting tourists are behaving like utter pigs. THEY SIMPLY MUST REINSTATE VISA POLICIES TO THESE TOURISTS.

It's bizarre Iraq and Iran and most of the African subcontinent make it harder for Pakistan nationals to enter than Thailand.

That press conference by Trump was beyond sick. Let the families grieve, before you politicise whatever the hell you are on about. Let the investigation conclude. Grim beyond belief.

In the UK - statistically, rape is 85% committed by white males under the age of 30. Where is your sympathy for those women, or anger to those perpetrators? Why is your anger only at muslims? I tell you why .... you are being brainwashed by the media to touch those racist hot spots, distraction to blame those people and not the real issues in life. You are aware this Rochdale grooming case, as awful as it was, was some 15 years ago? Most of those people were tried and sentenced.

Very good point. Whilst at university in Warwick, you came across many international students, many different cultures. I was good friends with many Sikh friends, and some muslim guys born in the UK. They all liked to come out, even go to bars - they were brilliant set of lads and girls. However, over time i noticed when we went out i'd pick up comments from ignorant fools out there towards my mates that were not white. Usually grumpy older white men. Eg, we go into a bar, and some white guy shouts 'who orderered an indian takeaway'. Or an ignorant bouncer telling my mate he couldn't come into a bar with a hat on (it was a turban and a part of his identity). Then there was the standard racist slurs you'd here. At first we would laugh of these comments, but I noticed slowly they were beginning to have an effect on those that were not white, my Sikh and muslim friends. Slowly as terms passed these people tended to stick to their own community, stopped intergrating as much - and felt more secure amongst their own community - primarily as a result of the hate, racism, xenophobia out there. I could not blame them to be honest. The hate and venom from a certain section of the British people towards people of colour - with the classic media driven line "they don't intergrate" is just an excuse. At heart it's just racism, and anything to put them down. Tolerance and love is a lovely thing. You will get idiots from all religions, colour and sex - doesn't mean you can castigate a whole sect of people that way. Not every celebrity is a Jimmy Saville, not every priest abuses, not every nurse is a Lucy Letby, not every muslim is a terrorist, not everyone on benefits is a lazy scrounger, not every school kid in America is going to bring a gun into school, not every male visiting Thailand is a sex tourist etc But as i say, i sit in Pattaya often talking to ignorant racist white British guys - totally brainwashed by the media. They speak no Thai, drunk sex tourists, pontificating about how bad immigrants in the UK are. No amount of facts or reasoning with them makes any difference. I tend to put it down these people are angry and unhappy with themselves and want to blame 'them' - "it's because of them my life is empty". Reality is, it's just not true.