JonnyF

I think you can spend as much or as little as you want. Some weeks I might only spend a couple of thousand Baht from Monday to Friday, especially if work is busy - but then I might blow 10k on a Friday night out and another 15k over the course of the weekend (more if I pop down to Pattaya). Another weekend I might prefer to watch sports at home, go to the gym, wander round the night market or go for a motorbike ride and only spend 2,000. I don't pay for rent or petrol so I reckon I could spend as little as 20k a month if I had to. In reality I spend several times that but don't really keep tabs on it.

I still am liberal in the classic sense of the word (small l). You might even say extremely liberal. Unfortunately the word has been hijacked by the left. The is nothing less liberal than a "Liberal" these days. Some of the most authoritarian, intolerant people on the planet. Enemies of free speech. Trudeau being a great example. The way he dealt with the truckers protest was absolutely shameful but on the plus side, it exposed him for what he truly is.

Yes, one of my biggest regrets is voting for Blair in '97. Fool me once...

For the sake of the country, they certainly need to do something to avoid splitting the right wing vote and allowing Labour in by default. Unfortunately, while the Tories contain the likes of leftist simp Rory Stewart, they are a lost cause. They need a good clear out of the "liberals" destroying them from within. However, I fear they are a busted flush and should probably disband.

Ah, the BBC's favourite "freedom fighters" showing their true colours again. Jeremy Corbyn's "friends"...

Leadership? What leadership? i don't see any leadership. All I see is an ill prepared melt getting found out at every turn. How about you stand up and fight Keir? Oh wait a minute.

I speak English so that kind of limits the opportunity to do so. Maybe I could try the outer suburbs where so many are fleeing to get away from the crime, congestion and ridiculous cost of living under Khan. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67788531

But but but, I thought Trump was a Wacist? 😄 A great appointment. Squeaky bum time for the corrupt Dems (well, at least the ones that Biden didn't slyly and furtively give pre-emptive pardons to, after promising not to). Welcome back, America!!

Joe Rogan is bang on the money again. Like myself, a former left of centre individual utterly disgusted by the way the left has gone. Trudeau is a disgrace. Thankfully suffering the same fate as Ardern. People have had enough of their ilk.

I see you have run out of arguments 😄.

Oh I thought you were claiming to be some kind of expert on London. Obviously not. Your defense of Khan starts to make more sense.

Not to mention soaring crime on the tubes. As Khan is responsible for both the Met Police and TFL, who will you blame for that? https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/tube-crime-thefts-robberies-tfl-susan-hall-sadiq-khan-london-underground-b1123618.html

That's a surprise. You sound like you'd fit in there. It isn't, and I understand if you wouldn't want to admit which area it is. Londoners and their postcodes... 😄 https://bean-daily.livejournal.com/824477.html

He pretty much bankrupted it and needed the Tories to bail him out. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-62728974

Let me guess. Islington?

Of course I don't live there. What would I be doing on a Thai forum if I lived in London? 😄 I lived there in the 90's. Wasn't too bad then as long as you avoided certain areas. Since then crime has gone through the roof. Khan is a massive failure and a massive hypocrite. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9915019/Sadiq-Khan-spotted-using-cavalcade-cars-drive-4-5-miles-walk-dog.html You're welcome to the revolting little man. And the awful weather. And all the knife crime, phone snatchings etc. London is a dump.

Even if true, your anecdotal tales don't really stand up against the statistics.

I'd rather wear a mask than be stabbed by someone wearing one.

No, she isn't a racist. The left can't attack her actual beliefs, so they invent new beliefs for her in order to provide something to criticize. After all, they know what she "really thinks". 😄

No surprise. Rachel from accounts and her budget for recession were bound to destroy the UK economy. This is just the beginning. Classic Labour.

There's talk of him running for Labour Leadership and PM at some point. In order to get the votes he'll probably wait until there are 20 million more Muslims living in the UK before he does that. So maybe 2027.

I'd trust Reform most, then the Tories, then Labour. I'd say Labour are the most dishonest bunch of British politicians I've seen in my lifetime. Hopefully the Tories fold. It was only the splitting of the right wing vote that allowed 2 Tier Keir into power. That can never be allowed to be repeated. Let the Tories break up, fake Tories like Rory Stewart can melt across over to Labour and real Tories like Jenrick and the ERG can go to Reform. Reform vs Labour. Mano a Mano.

Unfortunately it makes him head of the Met Police. Hence the rise in crime and the 2 tier policing. It also allows him to ruin people's lives with ULEZ, and to destroy public transport.

Yes, saying that is a smart move politically.

Get Britain back to work (by making it more expensive for businesses to hire people). Only Rachel from accounts with her fake CV could fail to see the flaw in such a policy. Her budget for recession is only just taking hold. This will get ugly.