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Not for a Thai I imagine.

I think ISAs are a much better deal. The only advantage I see with a pension is if you are a higher rate tax payer. Otherwise go for an ISA.

Yes it was reduced a few years ago. 34 years I believe.

What was the reason Britain just didn't take the other for states? May be a trade off over disputed territory between Burma and Thailand?

Deserved a stabbing? Wonderful.

Can you confirm or correct my understanding but I thought the Southern state Sultan swore allegiance to the Thai King and it was that fact that gave Thailand the OK to go and annex the South states after Britain said that they have no interest in them?

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I thought if you are deported then you have the choice of which country you are deported to. I am sure Turkey would have taken them. To say that volunteered to return to torture, imprisonment and death seems very unlikely. I think some of the Chinese dissadents on China's watch list had better scrub any plans to visit Thailand.

Any reason I cannot post the story about Thailand deporting refugees back to China https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14jjxz8re6o on the news site?

Or just rented it out. Have you seen the rents you get in the UK now.

Does anybody know what date was suggested so I can get the hell out of the UK when this debacle is going on. The only thing worse would have been on the 4th September 1939 to invite Adold Hitler on a state visit.

The title says that they damaged the reef then in the text it said that they endangered the reef. I read the whole article and I saw no reference to damage.

I didn't say that it was a pot. As you say my pension is being paid by current National Insurance payers. Just as when I was working all my NICs were paying for somebody elses pension. However it is not "tax" that pays the pension it is NICs. If the you like the NICs are tax but the government chooses not to call it tax. You used to have to have made 44 years worth of contributions to earn a full state pension so it is effectively a pot. As to a nice little earner, I dont think you will find people who haven't a company or private pension will call the state pension a "nice little earner". It does go up every year but not by an excessive amount. If what I paid in NICs hade been paid into an ISA or a pension I am sure I would be much better off.

Really? "Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus."

The very fact that ths site on a daily basis publishes Thai news stories that are foreigner this and foreigner that absolutey proves that the Thais are xenophobic. Most of the anti foreigner articles are more often than not far less serious than what the Thais do themselves. So by definition zenophobic. Now we have Thais complaining about foreigners being noisey. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. It will be foreigners are more dangerous drivers next. Hang on, they already do.

Yes and being a "benefit" rather that a right gives the Government the right to alter it, like means testing, which they said they will never do but then who trusts them, and to spy on out bank account usage. What is called is irrelevant. Why it has to be called a "benefit" just because it is administered by the DWP is BS. By any definition it is not a benefit. I paid into a private pension just the same. That is not a benefit. I pay for car and house insurance that it not a benefit.

In the news today and totally avoidable. 8 year old diabetic girl dies due to religious cranks. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yxvjx19go

And there was me thinking that high speed rail in the UK was a farce. We did eventually start building at horrendoes cost but to save money you will be dumped in the suburbs of London. But they did find £100 million to build a 1 km long bat tunnel.

Take their wife with them on the 6 month stay out of Thailand.

So does this mean that the authorities are going to stop Thais also their very very loud all night parties? Then there is the once a month all night noise because one Thai family is sending one of their sons to be a monk. I wish Thais would do a little inward thinking now and again.

Yes I wondered quite recently how that testing was going. The authorities have been very silent after the initial tests. Wasn't there a bus crash recently of a bus crashing into a toll booth?

I assume very unlikely in this case but UK overseas workers can make voluntary contributions to obtain a UK state pension.

Just a thought. We have seen the evidense of the "No Israelis" signs. Why don't the businesses that are so anti tourist or so anti foreigner just put up signs saying no tourists or no foreigners we can all then boycott them and go to businesses that appreciate our custom.

Not everyone in the UK has an NI number or the right to have an NI number. Then of course you should know that.