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Because the perpetrators are invariably part of the feral British chav variety - entitled,beer guzzling, thick as mince,ugly, tattooed and with horrible accents. Many live off the state and would not dream of investing their (ie taxpayers') money in anything as sensible as insurance.For these pikeys delayed gratification is an incomprehensible concept.

Same for me but about 20 years ago.Allopurinol at just 100 mg daily since then.No recurrence.

What a disgraceful article.

I didn't argue consular activities were more important than other functions.I argued that in certain countries with very large British populations/visitor numbers, Embassies pay as much attention to consular activity as anything else. Thailand and Spain good examples.This is not even controversial so I don't know why you are reduced to foolish comments like it's just Ambassador's PR. In countries like China,Saudi Arabia etc it's obviously not the case. I have never thought or argued this.

No, his position was made clear in obituaries in most of the British major newspapers.

Depends on the country, and the number of British residents and visitors. Thailand has a large number of both.As I have just pointed out, the former Ambassador to Spain (a much more senior position that the Ambassador to Thailand) saw his responsibilities to British subjects as important as any other area.

You have better information than I do, but it confirms my belief that the high flyers have as little to do with DBS (distressed British subjects) as possible). Actually I have no beef with the Embassy consular staff in Bangkok who do an often thankless job as well as humanly possible.I see no evidence of laziness, lack of interest etc as some of the sillier posts on this thread suggest. Having said that, Thailand has a large British expatriate population and a massive number of visiting Brits.It's important that leadership comes from the top, and that means the Ambassador.During the COVID crisis there was a clear failure in leadership on the part of the then ambassador - in clear contrast with the efforts of representatives of other countries.He went on to Hong Kong and got a CMG so his employers presumably thought well of him.The present (much more personable) ambassador picked up the pieces, and I think does pretty well. Interesting to see in the recent obituary of Giles Paxman (brother of Jeremy) who was British Ambassador to Spain, that he took his duty to the millions of Brits in Spain extremely seriously and one of his major responsibilities.

Neither.Financial inducement was not necessary.It is just the craven surrender to the Chinese gangster state's pressure.Get used to it.

You were shown to be in egregious error by a number of posters so stop trying to deflect. It is a schoolboy error to attribute the military expansion before 1939 to WSC If you had said the government was spurred to action by WSC's calls from the back benches, though only part of the picture, that would have at least been worth discussing.But it's not a point you made. I can't really say any more other than to suggest some reading into the subject - which clearly you have not done up to now.

All you expat pensioners, be afraid.......be very afraid. Back in the real world, audits on expats with modest incomes aren't going to happen.

Oh dear, you are quite the chump.Briefly then, because serious discussion seems beyond you. Churchill obviously foresaw the threat of the Nazis very early but he was not in power.Chamberlain poured money into a succession of 13 RAF expansion programmes, while, as prime minister, he approved the construction of a series of aircraft factories, most notably the world’s largest plant at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham, which was meant to produce 1,000 Spitfires by June 1940. By 1939, rearmament was swallowing 21.4 per cent of Britain’s gross national product, a figure that reached 51.7 per cent by 1940. When Chamberlain finally declared war in September 1939, Britain’s aircraft output had overtaken that of Germany’s. Churchill's greatest living biographer, Andrew Roberts, has repeatedly pointed out similarities between Churchill and Zelensky.

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An excellent point.When I first came to Thailand, it was because I had been sent here by my company in the early 1980's.I had no real choice in the matter: I might equally have been sent to Brazil, Italy or Australia where my company also had branches. I didn't know that many people in Bangkok who weren't employed by multinational companies on the lines you describe.The trading companies employed quite a few - Borneo, Anglo-Thai etc.They mostly belonged to the British Club though the classier ones were also members of the RBSC. There were others of course - often the most interesting - eg academics at Chula, teachers at smart Thai schools, posh remittance men and others avoiding scrutiny from their home country, artists and writers etc.At that time Thai companies - dominated by Chinese family traditions - didn't really employ foreigners.Anyway all in this bunch would call themselves expatriates. The number of well paid multinational company people has greatly dwindled as HQ's realized appointing able Thais is more effective. The expatriate world has changed enormously over the last 40 years, mostly because Thailand has itself transformed into a much richer country.

Brilliant. That did the trick.Thank you very much.

For a long time my Grab app has been linked to my Krungsri debit card.Worked fine. However needed to replace Krungsri debit card (time expired) with new one.But can't for some unknown reason link new card with Grab app - despite multi checking details were entered correctly. Anyone had similar issues? Who do I contact for help =Grab or bank? P.S. Was able to link Grab app with my Krungsri credit card and also True wallet.Now using latter as default payment method.Works fine.