billd766

How did Prayuth's 9 years of corruption eradication work out?

That must be your opinion only. IMO Thaksin should be freed immediately, given a billion baht as compensation, and ALL the generals involved in ALL the coups should be executed for treason. There, I fixed it for you. After all, that is only my opinion and is equal in worth to your opinion.

Thank you for your prompt and polite response. Polite and informative answers seem to be harder to find on the forum in the last few years. If it isn't France directly then it is most likely an EU problem. All they will do is talk it to death over about 20 years.

Thank you for that information. Perhaps it would be an idea to only keep them for 3 months before auctioning them off or sub contract it out to a scrap dealer and let him do as he wishes with the boats. If somebody comes along to claim a boat, send them down to make a full report at the central police station.

I sometimes read his posts but I don't answer them as after my last answer in response to his post, he accused me of both lecturing him and trolling him. By not responding to his posts I have lost nothing.

Is a response to your post a troll post?

Perhaps France should be re-enforcing their other borders to stop them coming into France. If the rubber boats are reusable who would reuse them? They wouldn't or shouldn't be shipped back across the channel, so who would own them, or are they simply dumped onshore as flotsam, and belong to anybody who wants to claim them.

I agree with you up to the point where you say, they can't be worse than the Tories. However the current lot of chinless wunderkind most probably are worse that the current Labour lot, I think. If I were to be honest, now I have my vote back, I don't think that I would vote for either lot, so my proxy vote in Taunton will probably be a wasted protest vote.

Then why are you complaining about his posts? I don't like a lot of your posts either, so I simply skip over them in case there is one or two I do like. However I don't bother to make a fuss over them because they are your opinions and not mine. His opinions are his and not yours.

Well apart from the fact that I never said that at all, perhaps it is a good idea. But that would be down to the UK and mainly the French governments to sort out. I could also have suggested towing the boats back to the 3 mile limit and sinking the boats. After all the illegals have life jackets, but the protestors in the UK and France would have a field day with that suggestion.

But which party should replace them and why?

However he has the same rights as you, I or anybody else to post on any topic that he wishes. You have the same right to read his posts as everybody else. If you personally don't like his posts, you have the option of skipping over his posts thus ignoring him, putting him on your ignore list, or formally complaining to the moderators about his posts. The easiest and simplest thing to do is put him on your ignore list. I agree with a lot of his posts and disagree with a lot his other posts, probably about 50/50, and some that I disagree with I respond to and discuss. What I try my best to avoid is insulting the poster. It you personally don't like his posts, then don't read them.

And they are most probably correct. IMO the biggest problem is France as all the illegals have made their way from their home countries, into the "relative" safe haven of Europe. Many of them will travel further across Europe, ignoring the safe haven of the EU countries to the shores of France, where they get transported across the English Channel to the UK. They believe that the streets of the UK are paved with gold and where they believe that they will be given everything that they need or desire. I know it is not an easy question tp answer, but where do they get the rubber boats, engines, fuel, life jackets etc from? They obviously don't bring them from their home countries, so where do these things come from? Presumably there is a big business supplying them, and whoever is selling them must be making a lot of money. Obviously, smarter people than me must have worked out where the stuff comes from, so why have they not cracked down on the suppliers?

I understand that. What I find hard to understand is why they didn't give him 10 years and 4 months to be commuted to 5 years and 2 months in the first place.

Please show where I have said that. This time try to manage it without the personal insults.

I did mine last month. I had to fill in a form with the government to register as an overseas voter, another form to the local electoral office to register as a postal voter followed by a second one to the same office to register my proxy voter. I emailed all the forms off, after editing them in Adobe Acrobat. For some reason the local electoral office also wanted a photo of me. I think that is weird as I am unlike to go back to the UK and the electoral office anyway. The photo was simply a screenshot from the camera on my pc.

What was the point in giving the guy 10 years an 2 months and commuting it by a half? Why not give him 5 years to begin with and leaving it at 5 years. He got less time for killing an eye doctor, than 2 elderly people got for picking mushrooms.

The reason that I have different views on other topics is that they are not about the elimination of all the Palestinians in Gaza, be they men, women or children, innocent or guilty of being a supporter of Hamas. I think that for every Palestinian, innocent or guilty, slaughtered by the IDF in Gaza, there is another supporter of Palestine created somewhere in the world. So, IMHO it will be impossible for Netanyahu to kill every supporter of Palestine and/or Hamas inside of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon or elsewhere. It is long past time that the people of Israel stopped him and his Zionist war cabinet. The other option is for the US to stop supporting him. They have been talking since October 7th, and they have achieved nothing, and yet every day more people on both sides are killed and injured. The exact same thing should also happen to all the Hamas leadership. All of them should be locked in a big room along with all of the Israeli leaders and left to fight among themselves to the death of ALL of them.

What a sad little closed minded person you are. You cannot seem to respond to any post without insulting the poster. Don you have any original thoughts or ideas of your own?

Bugger. I didn't see that coming. We just filled the Ford Ranger up this morning.

Good. The more, the better.

Please explain the difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter. Nelson Mandela was called both a terrorist and a freedom fighter, yet ended up as President of South Africa. I would call Netanyahu a terrorist and a war criminal for what he has ordered to be done in the Gaza strip, and has been doing for years. But that is just my opinion, which is worth the same as your opinion.

97, 98, 99. Change the Tory PM once again. What has happened to the UK Conservative party in the last few years? It seems to have lost touch with its supporters, its MPs, and IMHO, I think it has also lost touch with reality.

Few people would have sympathy for a person CONVICTED of murder, but many will have empathy for someone alleged to have committed the crime. Though in your case, it seems the court of YOUR opinion is more important than anything else

Wow. So much empathy, and you obviously know all the facts and details about the lady's circumstances, which you didn't bother to post. She is a single mother, is she divorced or a widow. How long has she lived in the UK for example?