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I'll add another vote for the Londoner. The food is excellent.

Wow, I just read two pages about the price of quiche. Somewhere my life took a wrong turn....

Yeah I am waiting for this. It's going to be packed with safety tech (including Lidar I believe) and it is also going to go like stink with the dual motor version hitting 60mph in around four seconds. Also going to be a fair bit cheaper than the all electric XC40 and C40 so could be a really interesting proposal. My main concern is the size as I don't know how small it is going to be, if still comfortable for two teenage kids in the back I'll be interested as I am a big fan of electric Volvos.

Good question. No one who is racist, right wing, who lies, who is out for his/her own ends, who serves the rich at the expense of the poor, someone who will protect the NHS rather than dismantle it (along with other public services). I am no great fan but Starmer probably seems the best of a bad bunch at the moment - he is not very inspirational though but comes across as decent and honest and has values. So out of the current crop on offer he would be my choice.

Boo Hoo. Are you going to be OK? Let me know if you need a hug.

The Tories are useless and despicable and they need to go next year. But saying Brexit is a failure because of them sounds like an excuse to me. Brexit was doomed to be a failure from the start but those concerns were labelled "project fear" and dismissed. For me the Tories are to blame 100%, but only because they called the referendum in the first place for their own selfish interests. It is pretty clear to me that deep down they never expected Leave to win, but when there was a sniff of it people like Johnson switched sides and switched allegiance immediately, again purely to suit their own agenda and ambitions. Add then the Russian influence and Cambridge Analytica and it was game over. And here we are. And most of the "Project fear" concerns have come true. It should also be noted that Farage is/was only in it for himself too right from the off. He's another despicable human that shouldn't be given column inches. Same as Christopher Yaxley-Lennon and all the other human detritus that made themselves a lot of money by whipping up the xenophobes / racists - only ever in it for themselves. So for him to come out and say Brexit would have been great but the Tories have messed it up is ridiculous, Brexit itself is the cause of our problems and nothing else.

In summary: People are poor, businesses have closed but it's ok because "some people care about other stuff". And industries being in decline is ok because we don't have any right to be better than other countries for ever. Thank you.

Yes. Vauxhall potentially pulling out of the UK now. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vauxhall-warns-last-uk-plants-to-close-if-brexit-deal-is-not-renegotiated-wjwgbcjbn#:~:text=The international automotive giant behind,sourcing batteries for electric vehicles. Yes. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1745160/brexit-deal-uk-fishing-industry-eu-boris-johnson-tories-june-mummery You think we didn't have a huge influence in the EU? We had powers no one else had (we could opt out of things we didn't want), we could shape policy. we had negotiated huge rebates, we could vote, we could debate. Righty ho. And if you didn't believe we had a huge influence inside the EU then it is you that needs help.

Yet you just did speak on people's behalf! "There are other things that some people find important . Some people care about other things, rather than just money and wealth and enriching themselves." Anyway pretty sure if you ask people in a food bank what they care about the answer will be "food".

Pretty sure the people who have to use food banks wouldn't mind a bit of money, and those that have lost their jobs or business as a consequence of Brexit wouldn't mind either. So easy for you to say it's not important. And seriously, when someone points out that post-Brexit the economy is tanking, businesses are closing, we've lost all our regional influence, we're the "sick man of Europe", your best comeback is "some people care about other things"? So what are these "other things" that poor people care about? Keeping "immigrants" out trumps having a vibrant economy, a motor industry, a fishing industry, a voice and huge influence over the world's biggest trading bloc? Or something else? What do these people really care about?

I can help you with this. Nigel Farage, arch Brexiteer and a hero to the many uninformed, proclaimed before the referendum that if Remain won by a small margin (perhaps 52-48%) then it would be "unfinished business" and there should be a re-run. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-wants-second-referendum-7985017 Hypocrisy of the highest order.

That's promising, thanks for sharing. I submitted my son't renewal (in Bangkok) on 27th March and so far nothing. I am waiting to get that back before I book flights to the UK for a summer trip so I take heart from your experience.

Pathetic. Is that really what you took from my post? It was quite obvious what I meant, don't try such childish tricks please.

Much as I think Brexit was the most ill thought out, self harming, disastrous thing that any UK government has implemented in the last 30 years, and much as I despise the fact that it was all based on a pack of lies and it has made the UK a worse place and it has stripped the rights of free movement of my children (mostly because of bigoted logic), nobody is going to stand on a platform of rejoining. Not because they don't think that leaving was a huge mistake but because we would be rejoining in an extremely weak position. We had exceptional power and rights in the EU, we had the power to opt out of things we didn't like (single currency, Shengen), we had special privileges that "normal" member states did not have. We had negotiated excellent rebates. If we rejoin that tomorrow all of that is gone. Gone forever, we would NEVER have those special privileges again, we have lost our bargaining power completely. And no, they don't need us more than we need it. Add to that the ill feeling created by our ridiculous antics, by poisonous buffoons like Farage, Johnson et al. And all member states would have to agree to have us - - I wouldn't want us back after the way we've behaved! So campaigning on a promise to rejoin would be pointless as I don't think we even could rejoin for the next 20 years.

Maybe I missed the replies or the mods got rid of them, but how many people got back to you on this? There must have been tons of Franco/German oppressive laws they want rid of so I am curious to know what they are - would be great if you could steer to me to the replies as I can't seem to find them.

....but......but.......SOVEREIGNTY!! (ie. you won't get one single example from anyone)

If you read the article they make it very obvious which mall it is (without actually naming it).

A gold star for being the first in this thread to trot out the "unelected EU technocrats/bureaucrats" cliche. (You would have got another gold star for adding in "faceless" - you can do better next time). You do know that unelected bureaucrats are also known as civil servants and are part of every government. You obviously know that that the UK has almost half a million of them as apposed to less than 40,000 in the EU. That means the UK has over ten times the amount of unelected bureaucrats than the EU despite having less than 15% of the population. No doubt you are horrified by this and will be voting to leave the UK.

There have never been EU Laws banning bendy bananas. If you honestly believe they were banned then you are clearly gullible enough to believe without question the £350m a week to the NHS and all the other lies of the campaign.

Which company did you use? It's something I've wanted to do for a while. I think "Wild Encounters" was the one I was looking at, if I remember they said if you don't see a whale they will take you out again another day for free.

Yes, I am aware of endangered species and agree they should be protected. I also think he should have known better considering he lives on the island. But I was replying to the poster who said he should be thrown in jail for 30 days. Do you advocate him being locked up in a Thai prison for a month for what he did? If so please explain why. What the heck on you on about??

Seriously, using logic is a lost cause with Transam. He doesn't engage in debate, just repeatedly repeats the same statement, it is really rather pointless try to discuss anything with him that goes against his in built beliefs.

Correct. I have a friend who traveled internationally (within Asia if it makes a difference) after he had submitted his passport renewal at VFS Bangkok. I think he did two trips on it before his new passport was ready - absolutely not an issue. Personally I wouldn't take the risk myself and I am not recommending it, but I know it can / has been done

....for touching a fish????

Yep, and they have turned a failed British brand in to a huge success so well played to them.