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But it was not all about economics and trade was it, it was about freedom from EU tyranny

I don't read Guardian links either, they are left wing activists, not journalists.

Far better them than hordes of noisy, rude Chinese

who said romance was dead????

Did he put his seat back?

Always give them the right change

Where to draw the line though, do you think the head of national parks just arrested for stealing a claimed 20 million a month is OK as well because the country has low taxes etc?

At least the doors were shut, I have been on them where they were tied open.

Sounds like the clinic is a disco as well!

Hardly, I have seen senior monks in Bangkok betting on Muay Thai bouts taking the cash out of those white donation envelopes!

Have the pics? depends on the cost to the Hotel and if it can be cleaned or not

Very complicated issue then

One of the great lovers rock songs, Jean Adebambo sadly took her own life

Lovers rock June Lodge

Obviously the people with no money on the bank where they bribe to get an extension. In other cases it is not needed as the agents role is just hand holding for those who cannot manage to fill a form in and line up for a while

240 million a year stolen just from a few parks, no wonder they need to charge arrivals 300 baht entry fee on landing, I wonder where that will end up????

Rather a late call, several years too late

Tops at central Rama 2 has it, bought 2 weeks ago. Lazada has loads of it

Tops sell Branston pickle

In other words desk deep in corruption extorting bribes from the people they are paid to serve, disgraceful.

To be fair then take the Lincoln memorial statue down, he was a white supremacist even by the standards of the day. The great emancipator from 1858 “I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races [applause]: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” — Reply by Abraham Lincoln to Stephen A. Douglas in the first joint debate, Ottowa, IL; 21 Aug 1858

30 years later so hardly different times. Lincoln never even looked at any other solution except invading the CSA, but then slavery was the least of his concerns. Most of the slave owners were Democrats of course.

The Slave Compensation Act 1837 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 3) was the world's first major act of compensated emancipation and an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, signed into law on 23 December 1837. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837

This is not a court of inquiry. If you care to look into it the British did it in the 1830's by compensating slave owners in the colonies, ofter they stopped the slave trade in 1807. Enormously expensive, but a good deal less than the cost of the American civil war and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Did you know Lincoln proposed keeping slavery until 1900 if the CSA re joined the Union, and also planned to ship freed slaves back to Africa en mass, or do you need a link to that as well. The ignorance of many Americans about their history is depressing, they just repeat the brainwashing they had at school!