OJAS

As far as us expat retirees are concerned, Bill, it has become clear to me that the Embassy regard their key role these days as acting as a go-between in developing a joint UK/Thailand inter-governmental strategy aimed at making our lives here in LOS just as humanly difficult and miserable as they can be. The imposition of cumbersome bureaucracy on us over the past 10 years or so in the areas of passport renewal, proving that we are still in the land of the living for State Pension purposes and legalisation of UK documents as alluded to above is, I think, clear evidence of the UK government's gleeful enthusiasm for the development of such a strategy.