Geoff914

It is a good few years since I was in the Philippines. Whilst I accept going to the bank and seeing a guard with a pump action shot gun but the bakery has a guard with a pump action shot gun then you know there is some thing very wrong. May be it is better now,

Number 7 driving without license plates. I was at the gf's family home at the New Year in remote Khon Kaen and saw a car with no license plates. The gf explained it was a new car and the owner couldn't be bothered to buy the red plates. But I said how can you drive around with no plates. Yes I know a stupid question.

How they do it in London.

Same as the UK now. Illegal drivers refuse to stop then blame the police when there is an accident. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2063127/a1-crash-driver-jailed-Mazyar-Azarbonyad. No licence, no insurance. Two days later he was stopped driving another car.

So no blame on the motor cycle taxi rider who refused to stop then.

I thought this was a joke but then it isn't the 1st April.

It seems Musk was quite happy to cut other people's budgets and throw other people out of work but when it directly affects one of his own companies he is not so keen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87jq0djw00o

What a joke telephone diagnosis it. How do you listen to somebody's breathing, check if they have high blood pressure. Just a another way to bully people into not seeking medical help. Now I don't necessarily blame the Government for his. Seems to me GPs are taking advantage of practices that were introduced during covid, The same with the recorded phone messages that you get now when you phone any business now, "we are experiencing high call volumes and your wait may be longer than usual. You can however talk to our thick, stupid virtual assistance who wont understand what your question is".

I would say they absolutely were an attack on people who use food banks. You did not see anybody who looked like a nurse, well I wouldn't expect the to turn up in their uniform. You did believe that many of them were drug users getting the food to sell. Now stealing food to sell, I don't condone it but that makes sense. Getting food from a food bank to sell, doesn't make sense.

You can't get an appointment at my GP's surgery. You can get a telephone triage then if you are lucky get an appointment. Good luck getting through on the phone to get the triage.

You may be a British tax payer but you live in Thailand on a retirement visa so don't actually live in the UK. Sounds like you son took you on a tour of the worst parts of which ever town he lives in. I actually live here and as bad as it is how you describe it is not typical. You said "I drove past and saw queues outside food banks. I was told by my son, that many were not desperate, they were begging food then selling it cheap to buy drugs," And how does you son know. Sounds like a highly opinionated person to me. There are many working people who have to rely on food banks to live. I have never heard of people scrounging stuff from food banks to sell. Why would anybody buy food from a drug user when you could just go to the food bank and buy the food there. Yes nurses and other low paid rely on food banks. That is is what 15 years of Tory rule has done to this country. And before you say no I do not support Labour. No doubt I could be taken on a tour of the Thai slums, or any other country, then formulate an opinion of the country based on that. Attacking people unfortunate enough to need to use food banks and describing them as drug users is a pretty low blow. Plenty of drug users are well off and the filthy rich. Why attack less well off people as drug users.

Pornography isn't illegal. Only images of children is. Plenty of the police force view pornography, legally.

Then why suggest it?

Who said nurses were selling food bank food to buy drugs?

If that is the attitude then us British that still live here don't want you here. For Gods sake nurses are paid so badly they have to go to food banks. Your son doesn't know what he is talking about. May be a few do but "many" is simply rubbish.