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UK is about to introduce a 25% tariff for US visitors based on their body weight. £25 for every 100lb of weight. It’s going to fill the £22 billion black hole in the chancellors budget in a matter of weeks.

The article says 4.3 M for the new IM6 SUV, not a pickup, however press releases say IM6 will be 1.2 to 1.8M so it’s just a typo.

Xenophobia - clearly all foreigners are akin to the devil ! 🤣

Absolutely ! I just wonder what would happen if they tried this in the UK, asking the UK public to grass up anyone they suspected of being there illegally. The Border Force guys would have to round up millions !!

absolutely agree with you. The only thing I can’t figure out is why on earth they are doing this.

Articles like this always make me feel so welcome

See plenty of stories of monks and priests abusing children - nothing “unbelievable” here, just something utterly disgusting.

Should either be left to rot in jail or deported. UK has gone mad.

I think it’s supposed to read “as the end of the high….”

Just copying the local lads

I have no evidence of this particular incident, but having experienced Patong TukTuk drivers i would say that story is highly unlikely. A driver asking the guy to politely move his bike and then returning to the drivers seat to wait seems highly unusual. Every similar exchange I have had with them involves being berated and surrounded by a large number of drivers within seconds. i remember a couple of years ago, stopping on the beach road for two minutes to drop off my elderly, disabled mother, and a group of them surrounded the car shouting at both of us to move the car. A group ot aggressive men shouting at an elderly lady in a wheelchair sums up their behaviour beautifully. This has been going on for years, and is a reason that our family will never visit Patong again. Ever. Covid was the perfect time to introduce a proper public transport system, removing the current fiefdoms and “taxi clubs”, but it will never happen. Too much money flowing to powerful people under the current arrangement. B0ll0cks to tourists and their safety, let’s fleece them at every opportunity.

Singapore has plenty of public toilets so I can’t see this happening. hardly a day goes by without us seeing a thai fella at the side of the road having a wee. its hardly the crime of the century. But the article is right - Phuket needs far more public toilets.

My mother is exactly the type of tourist they should want: wealthy, well travelled, loves eating out, always stays in lovely hotels, enjoys shopping and high quality trips. But can she work a smartphone? Not a chance. Different generation.

No, it’s realism day

absolutely agree. We have left the uk already !