billd766

Even more Safety. Do NOT "play" with guns, ever. Loaded or not.

1 Why WOULD my wife receive a pension? She has never lived or worked in the UK. When she worked in Thailand before we married. it was informal work with no tax paid or pension benefits. When she worked for herself after we married she was working informally with no pension benefits. 2 https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit-abroad#:~:text=You can get Child Benefit if you're a Crown,UK for a posting abroad. You can get Child Benefit if you’re a Crown servant working anywhere outside the UK - whether or not your child lives with you. Before you were posted abroad you must have been either living in or posted to the UK. If you are NOT a crown servant you are not entitled to Child Benefit. offshore. There is more detail in the link. 3 The rate I pay at the state hospital is 50 baht per visit to the doctor, plus the cost of the medicine. I should not need to tell you any of this, as the information is freely available through the internet if you want to look it up.

Though I live in Thailand and have done for many years, I am not a resident of Thailand. I am non resident in the UK also but HMRC still collects income tax on my pensions whilst (at this point in time) the UK government does not allow me to vote. In Thailand as a non resident I cannot vote and receive nothing from the Thai government in the way of a pension (700 thb per month) and neither does my wife. AFAIR my wife got no child allowance for raising our son from Thailand, and I know we got nothing from the UK. The only benefits that I get from Thailand are cheaper medical bills (but more expensive than Thais) because I am registered at the local government hospital.

Strange how Prince William learned to live with it without crying about it all the time. And NO the circumstances were completely different. Perhaps if Harry and Meghan learn to keep quiet and ignore the press, the press will ignore them. A matched pair of crybabies, completely different from the rest of the family.

That is something that nobody will ever know, and something we we can only speculate about.

No freedom of speech, no freedom of protest, children as young as 15 arrested and jailed awaiting trial under section 112 and you call those good years? Both freedoms allowed in the constitution but NOT under Prayuth. A nurse being shot and killed in a wat. The whole country stolen from the people at the point of a gun, and you call those good years? No election for 5 years although the country and Yingluck's government had already called for an election, yet you call those good years? When an election was eventually allowed it was rigged. A political leader was stripped of his position and his political party dissolved and 6 million voters were disenfranchised, and you call those good years? After the election the EC broke its own rules on the number of votes that a political party needed to get a party list seat. And you call those the good years? Why not be honest and call yourself a junta supporter?

Working on that theory as soon as I lose my vote living abroad I should no longer have to pay UK income tax on my pensions. A rally cry from a couple of centuries ago. NO taxation without representation. Does that sound familiar? If you are taking a proportion of my pensions to fund items in the UK, WHY shouldn't I be allowed a vote?

Not really. The 15 year rule has been on the books for many years but not many people bothered. Another rule that has been around for many years is that HMRC WILL grab any income that THEY deem as UK based and tax it.

Please accept my apologies for the was I listed this. It is the way my mind is a bit scrambled up these last few months. I think of something, write it down, think of something else and write that down and repeat it several times. Look at it, change bits of several and then just shove it out.

A whole lot more than has happened since 2016. I did expect problems with customs etc at the channel ports. I had hoped that so many EU rules and regulations would have been swept away in the last 9 years but that hasn't happened.. I didn't expect the fiasco at the NI borders that is going on now. As for treaties from different countries, that has always been a 2 way thing. I always expected problems from the EU and am not surprised so far. As for Tory PMs and politicians, very little surprises me with that bunch of spineless wimps. I am surprised and saddened by the attitude of France and illegal immigrants, and the UK government though, I should not have been. All in all I am disappointed with Brexit, but I cannot do anything about it.

Sadly you are wrong again. My wife, my son and 2 neighbours had to travel 6km each way to vote. They passed through 3 small villages, and these villages are on the main road, not to mention the 3 in the other direction to get to the polling station. There are also villages off the main road. There are quite a few old people out in rural Thailand. The nearest baht bus stop is in the big village and doesn't come this way anyway.

I think that he is still out there peddling his daily lie quota.

I wonder how many of those judges are women? How many are old and how many are white Caucasian? They don't seem to have worked it out that it is NOT their bodies that will be directly affected, but those of millions of women. I really shouldn't have been surprised as 2 of the 3 judges were placed there by the p***y grabber in chief.

And what value would you put on the statements of 250 UNELECTED people, against 27 million legal electors?

Perhaps you did not want to see any evidence. WHY should 250 UNELECTED people have a bigger say than 27 million?

Guns are NOT toys to be "played" with. They have one role in life which is to kill or injure. I have no sympathy.

I voted for Brexit but sadly I have no vote left in the UK though it is supposedly being restored this year. Over 15 years out of the UK and lose your right to vote.

I truly HOPE that the next ten years will be better than the last ten.

Sadly the senators term cannot be instantly terminated. It will take a completely new government and a completely new constitution by the Thai voters to do that. IF the MFP do manage to build a coalition government IMHO it will take at least a year to scrap the current constitution, hold a referendum and get a new constitution written by the people of Thailand. If they can do that or perhaps revive the 1997 constitution and modify it, it will have to be approved and signed off by the German tourist. If it affects him in any way it is unlikely to be signed off, no matter what the Thai people want.

I will be sticking around because I live here with my Thai wife and son The EC, Bangkok and the military are NOT the be all and end all of Thailand.

Well 74,223,975 US voters agreed with you but 81,283,501 US voters disagreed with you. The electoral college disagreed with you by 306 votes to 232. They cannot all be wrong and you be the only one who is right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election Nominee Joe Biden Donald Trump Party Democratic Republican Home state Delaware Florida[c] Running mate Kamala Harris Mike Pence Electoral vote 306 232 States carried 25 + DC + NE-02 25 + ME-02 Popular vote 81,283,501[1] 74,223,975[1] Percentage 51.3% 46.8%

You keep bleating about the Biden administration "weaponising" the FBI and the DoJ, but for some reason you don't post links or provide proof. So all that is left is your word. Quite frankly IMHO your words are meaningless unless you back them up with proof.

Why not search the internet for your answer?

When will Trump see the light and learn that he lost the election, that he is NOT above anybody else, and he is deep in court cases? How can any of that make Trump stronger. I understand that you believe that Trump is perfect and has done/can do no wrong in your eyes, but that is only your opinion. Millions of Americans and other citizens worldwide disagree with you.

As usual you got it wrong once again because you are too lazy to research the topic. quote "200 km/h was done before the first world war with steam engines, steel tracks on wooden sleepers." NO it wasn't. It was actually done in 1938 by the Mallard. https://techhistorian.com/fastest-steam-train-in-the-world/#:~:text=The Mallard set the record,just over 200 km%2Fh. The Mallard set the record for the fastest steam locomotive on July 3, 1938, when it reached 126 mph or just over 200 km/h. It was faster than the previous record of still of 124.5. The Mallard's record still stands today. There is more information in the link, and you would have found that out, IF you had bothered to do an internet search.