JAG

4 years in, 1 down, 69 to go!

A lifetimes work!

Incidentally, why does he have a portrait of Elvis Presley on his shirt pocket?

11 minutes ago, z42 said:

It matters not. Both entities are mud in the eyes of many. 

This is just another own goal fuelled by incompetence and downright cowardice. They will fare horribly in the election

The electoral arithmetic, explained earlier, tells us that that he will need 375 seats to become Prime Minister. 250 of them are senators, they're in the bag. Then he will need 125 MPs. Whilst Phalang Pratcherat and it's allies may or may not achieve that, there is 60 days for: verification, authentication, recounts, petitions to the EC, disqualification for many reasons and so forth. I imagine that he already knows that he will achieve that magic figure of 375. Why should he bother with going to rallies?

1 hour ago, AhFarangJa said:

Spot on Smedley.

I have friends in the markets in U.K. who tell me they will not touch the Baht until it goes back to where it should be, which, apparently is around 65 to a pound.......

Hmm, that would mean a 40+% rise in the cost of the school fees, university fees and the property in the West End!

There are some jolly influential people who won't like that.

Let's face it, if your son and heir is having to reside in London for the time being, until a little contretemps over a traffic accident is resolved, then the cost of maintaining him (and his "court") needs to be considered. A word in the right ears here and there...

I'm sure that is only one example - there will be enough others. I believe that there is quite a community of free spending well funded young Thais in the UK.

20 minutes ago, SheungWan said:

Well not you it appears.

16 minutes ago, SheungWan said:

How it looks from Pattaya New Plaza. 

So, nothing to add to the conversation then?

Just your usual exquisitely crafted little barbs.

Smug b*st*rd.

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

It's heading towards a Brexit, with a deal, a close union in which the UK inevitably ends up coughing up money and doesn't make a clean break. A sort of hybrid that no one wanted, and likely be crap managed by the current idiots who'll all claim it an outstanding success!

A good summary of the present situation. I am rather coming around to the opinion that disengagement from the EU is going to take a number of years, and possibly a couple of governments. I suppose the only bright point (from a leavers perspective) is that a marker is down that any further integration or surrender (sorry "pooling") of sovereignty is not going to happen.

Perhaps the endgame will occur when the EU overreaches itself, and makes an unacceptable demand?

Who knows!

59 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

May have, may have, may have. We hear that all the time, but when it comes down to it, they don't have.

It's all wishin' and hopin', IMO.

Don't forget they need the numbers in both the house and senate to stop a veto.

While the Dems are thinking up yet another scheme to do in Trump, who's passing laws to help the country? 

Except he is not really passing laws is he? 

The lower house of The Congress has, as a result of the recent elections, a mandate to oppose many of his schemes. They also have a right to ask questions about some of the murkier aspects of his financing, and campaigning, for the presidency - embarrassing  and pertinent questions given that the divisions between Mr Trump's finances and activities, personal, corporate and political, are somewhat unclear. His links with foreign political entities are also somewhat opaque to say the least, and sparking interest. As a result of this, and his inability to compromise, negotiate or empathise with anyone other than his immediate voting base, he is instead calling a National Emergency, in the face of all statistical and other evidence, in an attempt to get his own way, and deflect this attention. Hardly passing laws, or governing wisely to help his country!

35 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Sooooo, how else would Trump stay in power- just stay in his chair and refuse to leave?

Where in the world has any president/ PM stayed in power without the backing of the military? The Guardian is just doing what the Guardian does and stirring, IMO.

It's not happened before, I grant you.

There again, there hasn't really been a President of The United States of America with Mr Trump's unique relationship with reality either!

2 hours ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

Varadkar, Ireland, Barnier, the Spanish media — what do they have to do with you not having the balls to get your shxx together and make a decision?

 

 

1 hour ago, Loiner said:

Our shxx is already together and the balls legislated to Leave on 29th March. Why do aliens want to interfere in the decision of another country?


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When we leave it will cause a £9 billion hole in the EU budget. 

If you are a net recipient country ( Ireland is) that means that there will be less money to come to you. Not a welcome idea.

If you are a net contributor country you will likely have to stump up more. Not a welcome idea.

If you are part of the labrynthine higherarchy which governs the EU it tightens your purse strings. Not a welcome idea.

9 hours ago, Prissana Pescud said:

And it is a fact that renditioning has occurred in most European countries, as well as all around the world.

And that US stated years ago that no border would stop any action anywhere on earth in relation to perceived US security.

I don't need to troll you, you always reply to my facts with something not even relevant.

Sweden wants Assange extradited to face alleged rape charges.

Sweden has failed to say conclusively that they would rule out an extradition request by the US, should be be in Sweden.

Either way, Assange will not be free to walk out of his coal bunker in the Equador Embassy. He will be nabbed by someone.

At the time that Mr Assange's made his very public entry into the Ecuador Embassy he was on bail in the UK whilst appealling extradition to Sweden, who wished to question him over allegations of offences unrelated to Wikileaks. One of his demands/excuses for jumping bail was that Sweden would not guarantee that he would not be extradited from Sweden to the USA. The Swedish Government could give no such assurances because Sweden has an independent court system, which would have decided in the event of Mr Assange's extradition being requested and appealed. In exactly the same way that any such decision in the UK would be decided by the courts, not the government.

All that was forgotten in the heady excitement of addressing the world from that little balcony...

By making sure that he was a very high profile bail jumper, and doing his very best to keep his profile up, Mr Assange has made sure that his bail jumping is not going to be ignored or quietly forgotten.

Silly chap. I am sure that his legal advisors will have explained all that. I am sure that he decided that he knew better.

6 hours ago, pegman said:

Obviously the people of your country are getting gouged. They are either too stupid or weak realize it to do anything about it.

Or, just possibly, the medical insurance, pharmaceutical and medical industries have some sort of hold over the elected "representatives"?

7 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

How many bail jumpers have been treated this way?

It might be more pertinent to ask: how many bail jumpers have very publicly jumped bail to take "asylum" in an embassy, and then appeared on a balcony of that embassy to taunt the judicial system which granted them bail? If nothing else, Mr Assange's rather poor impression of the Monty Python North Minehead by election sketch has ensured that he remains firmly in the sights of the judicial system. 

Bail jumpers who evade arrest and prosecution normally do so because they do not attract the attention of the judicial system. Something which Mr Assange either hasn't realised, or has ignored because it conflicts with his irrisistable desire to grandstand.

I wonder how long it will be before the Ecuador ambassador finally gets fed up with sharing his Ferrero Roche chocolate, and shows him the door. Undoubtedly Mr Assange, rather than just melting away into the crowd, will call a press conference on the doorstep, which will end up with him being pinched.

As others have said, I do hope his cat is going to be OK.

20 hours ago, johng said:

I always understood it was ok to turn left on red if its clear to do so and no signs prohibiting it ?

If you are driving the local bus from Chiang Rai to Wiang Chiang Rung, you must ensure that the lady who collects the fares hangs out of the doorway and shouts a warning to any nearby motorcycles, you can then engage the clutch and lurch onwards and leftwards, secured from interception or identification by a smokescreen which would do credit to a second world war destroyer attempting to hide a convoy from the "Bismark"!