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Presented as "Top News". Really? In the days where everyone seems to record everything and then posts it online, then expect these non stories to continue.

Certainly not the sharpest knife in the box. I can see why she finds Thailand an attractive option. Lot's of people get stuck and hand over their children to be raised by others. The difference being that that is usually due to unwanted pregnancies and abandonment by the moronic males responsible! But the biggest problem for her is that she can't keep her mouth shut and her head down! She obviously gets off on her notoriety and now it has bitten her on her botox enhanced backside!

Maybe a little balance is needed. The woman (at 36 she is a woman not a girl) wanted to party with her partner and they bought what they thought was a line or two of cocaine.. They were conned and ended up paying a terrible price for their mistake, Recreational drug use in the world continues to grow far quicker than the use of alcohol. Cannabis being the most popular, but cocaine becoming more and more readily available and the cartels and others make millions and millions of dollars from it. As with any commodity it is all about supply and demand with the key here being "demand". There are millions of people throughout the world who use recreational drugs, are they all hopeless druggies ruining their futures? These "druggies" can be found from all walks of life from universities like Harvard and Cambridge, high flying businessmen and politicians etc. etc. I am not advocating the use of drugs or even alcohol par say, but both are an integral part of life for many people from all walks of life. So let's not be too quick to judge others as we sit at our keyboards smoking our cigarettes and sipping at our gin and tonics. Merry Christmas

Well she was 36 years old so not a kid at all. In fact old enough to have kids of her own and certainly old enough to make her own grown up decisions. A tragedy certainly and it looks like there was some naivety involved by this pair. This is Thailand and as with everything here, it is very much a case of buyer beware!

You need to keep a UK address (could easily be a relatives) and a bank account for that address, where your pension can be paid into. However if it is found that you are not living in the UK then you may well be in trouble. The British pension is pretty pathetic compared to other European countries anyway. Hard to enjoy life if that is all you have to live on, even in Thailand.

Maybe got led astray by a Fin called Helga or Linnea, who had tugged on his heart strings while in Thailand and decided on a diversion on the way home. If so, best to keep that to himself or face a very angry girlfriend back home!

I know this is a bit obvious but Finnair do cheap flights to London from Bangkok via Finland. Could he have changed his flight for some reason which would explain why he was on a flight to Finland. Of course that doesn't explain where he is now, but may be part of the puzzle.

Lot's of speculation as usual with the bargirl scenario being top of the list. If he is out there enjoying himself then he will inevitably be drawing down money to do that or if not using his cards. That should be easy enough to check. Bringing his return to the UK forward and speaking to his girlfriend the day of his flight doesn't sound like someone planning to go AWOL. Sounds more like he was missing his girlfriend back home, which does raise cause for concern. Not everyone holidaying in Thailand is led by their D*ck, especially a fit 27 year old old with a girlfriend back in England.

Time will tell but so far they are just getting to grips with the dire state the country has been left in. I have no love for Labour and won't hold my breath but there was an enormous gasp of relief once the Tories had finally been ousted. This Labour is clearly Blair mark two but hopefully without the lies and bull!

I think it ended up with five seats after a recount. Prediction was 13 seats for reform so not such a great success. The results showed all parties increased their share apart from Conservatives and the SNP. The Liberal Democrats were the biggest winners apart from Labour. But let's be clear, (I borrowed that from the politicians handbook) this wasn't some great swing to Labour, it was people voting to get the Tories out. Where I live in the South East there was a big swing to the Lib Dems as expected, they were never likely to vote Labour. Even the Greens picked up seats. There were a lot of votes for reform from the right wing side of the Tories when they couldn't bring themselves to vote for the cretins running (and ruining) their party. So the obvious protest vote turned them to reform. I am actually quite pleased that Farage got elected. It is important to always have a clown in the mix and now Johnson has been binned, Nigel will bring some comic relief with his ridiculous rants.

Well it's all self inflicted I am afraid. You could say the rot started with Cameron and the country has been mismanaged since he got the job. But the real rot came with the lying conman Johnson and his chums. Unbelievably there are still some blaming everyone else. Brexit is not being mentioned in this election by either of the main parties. I think they know that the people don't want to be reminded of that disaster. Starmer is singing from the Blair playbook and has kicked out anyone left of Centre apart from Rayner who will be his John Prescott. Record number of Tory MPs are standing down (jumping before being pushed) and they are struggling to get candidates to come forward. But don't think that life under the Labour party will be the answer to the mess the Tories have made of the country, they won't!

Well the Tories will be gone in the upcoming election, dead and buried and rightly so. The circus started with Johnson and the lies about Brexit and has continued with more of his incompetent chums from that point on. Let's hope that Labour grasp the metal and start negotiations to re-join the EU as soon as possible. However I don't think that Labour has the where-with-all to run the country properly either. Britain is really up s**tcreek and there isn't a paddle in site. I have always been a Tory voter in the past but now I think they need to be kicked out and start again with some fresh blood. They need some honest brokers and to get rid of the current lot completely!

It's very depressing to see two totally inadequate, pathetic so called politicians vying to run the country. Then I looked across the pond at what the USA has to offer. We are all doomed I tell you, doomed!!!!

However it doesn't stop him running for the Presidency, even from behind bars! And all the stupid people who buy into his bull manure will no doubt still vote for him. It is expected that the verdict will bring forward even more dollars for his campaign. Only in America!

It is all irrelevant. The property was split into several flats and it is reported that she was staying there as an Airbnb. Therefore renting on a short term basis.

Clearly this is just a PR exercise based on nothing more than a disgruntled young man's so called "experience". Everything he writes about life in London is factual but everyone knows that. There appears to be an overwhelming amount of discontent amongst everyone young and old in the UK at the moment.

More likely crystal meths

The Conservatives are pretty much dead in the water after the last few years of screwing up everything they have touched. Two by-elections on Thursday in what should have been safe Conservative seats and Labour wiped the floor with them. But be clear people were not voting Labour in, they are voting to get rid of this shower of inadequate imbeciles.

I agree. But there is a sea change when it comes to peoples attitude to Brexit. Illegal immigration has soared since Brexit and many of the lies that it was based on have now been exposed. However this is not a discussion about Brexit and my only point here is that I feel that there are far less people this time around who would swallow all the Farage bull<deleted>. In several other countries in Europe there has been a noticeable swing to the right and I think that much of that is over illegal and to some extent, legal immigration. In Britain the government have been on a serious immigration drive to replace many of the EU workers we lost over Brexit. Some of that from Africa and the far east where they are fast tracking nurses for the NHS and social care. They have also ramped up overseas recruitment for the universities which brings in big bucks for them, with foreign students paying far more for their places. This doesn't explain all the increased immigration figures but it should be noted that the vast majority of them are legal immigrants and not coming in small boats. There are certainly headlines (from the looney right wing rags) suggesting a Johnson/Farage dream team but I would be amazed if that ever came to fruition. If it did then surely that would be the final nail in the coffin of the Tories!

Interesting points. It has taken a long time for Labour to dump the likes of Abbot and the Corbynites, but finally they realise that the loony left makes them completely unelectable Now you have Starmer being coached by Blair and Mandelson. But no matter how you dress him up, Starmer is no Blair and cannot really bring the party together. In short Labour still doesn't look like a viable government in waiting, However the Tories have systematically screwed up just about everything they have touched and their credibility has been shot to pieces and they are lying (sic) in ruins. The rot really started with Cameron and his austerity measures but things seriously went downhill when Johnson and his ne'er do wells took the reins. No point in repeating the chaos that followed as it is all well documented and indeed continuing. There is no doubt that Farage will try poaching hard right members of the Conservative party for his Reform Party, unless he actually tries to join the Tory party. Problem with that is that it is likely to weaken the Tory Party more. In fact I think that anything that divides the Party even more will have dire consequences in an election. Sunak has virtually no chance of bringing the party together behind him, far too many loose cannons out there. The plotting and scheming behind closed doors is even more prolific now than in Johnson's day. So we don't know when the election will be called but I doubt it will be soon given the disarray that the government is in. And I have gazed out over the horizon and cannot see any knights in shining armour to come and rescue us all. I expect there will be enough people (reluctantly) to hold their respective noses and vote Labour to get them over the line. As for the turnout? Expectations are not high but people may turn out because we desperately need to get rid of this shower of imbeciles. Time will tell!

It's about nine years ago but friends of mine from the UK moved to a "retirement home" near to Chiang Mai. They were a couple and the price was for per person sharing. So that would be £3,000 per couple per month now. They paid nearly £2,000 a month back then. I believe there was an in-house restaurant that was adequate but uninspiring. All was fine until they needed quite minor medical care and then the costs escalated substantially. There was also a clause whereby you had to use the medical services available through the resort including dentistry! In the end the financial side became unaffordable and they felt they were being ripped off. However if you are single and in good health then it sounds like a very viable option.

Well it wasn't exactly Eton so not sure about the fagging 😂. However none of us know about his state of mind or what sort of pressures he was under. Surely the school and his guardians should have been more responsible. The school certainly has a duty of care and they have inhouse counselors to oversee the welfare of their students. I hope they will be held to account for their obvious failings in this case.

I seem to remember that is what they tried to do with The King and I. Not sure how they got on with that but it was banned in Thailand.

Maybe she has read this website. That would be enough to question the honesty of the RTP. Let's face it the RTP are notorious for cover-ups and their questionable credibility is well known internationally. And my wife's brother-in-law and uncle are both senior policemen in the RTP.

Gap years can be taken before or after going to uni. Many opt for after, before starting their post university jobs. Two of my son's friends are doing just that now. Both in Bali but heading for Thailand shortly.