2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Did you not read and understand the report ?

Its the Governments new 20 % V.A.T on education costs that has caused 100 pupils to not attend the school anymore and its going to close because the new tax

Ok.

2 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

So the state education sector will have to find another 100 places for the pupils displaced by the closure of this school.

 

They will also have to fund those places - I know the parents have already been paying through their taxes for an education which they have not, until now, been taking up.

 

Well thought through!

What about all the people paying taxes which go towards prisons they have never used? Or hospitals they have never visited? Or roads they have never used?

You can't pick and choose which taxes you pay for what.  If I don't use the M62 do I get a partial tax refund? No, but my taxes contribute towards its upkeep and rightly so.

I never go to the local park to look at the flowers. Should I get a tax reduction as I don't go to the park to look at the flowers or feed the ducks? 

So what exactly if people are paying taxes to schools they don't use? That is a choice, just like my choices to avoid the M62 and not feed ducks, I should still pay taxes towards them regardless because taxes are for society.

7 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   But the Government will not be receiving that V.A.T and the Government will now probably have to pay to find state schools for the pupils 

Yeah, all one hundred of them.

Sorry, one hundred pupils in a historic stately mansion, and 11-12 days after the budget is announced it has gone under. So it was managed exceedingly well before that and the closure is all the government's fault.

Maybe try putting 100 pupils in a more reasonable space rather than a historic stately home with acres of grounds. Just a thought.

It is hilarious all the articles coming out from the Mail and Telegraph just days after the budget.

But yeah now the government will have to re-school this massive amount of people, how will the system cope?

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Problem with EVs: High acceleration, little noise. New drivers don't realize how fast they are.

 

In general that's true. But the Deepal S07 is not very fast for an EV. About as fast as my petrol XC40 which no one would say is scarily fast.

In fact it is the reason I wouldn't buy one - they look great, well specced, nice interior, but just lacking in performance.

24 minutes ago, digger70 said:

I don't think that DT is That special  My opinion  is  I just think that it is a stupid Idea to wait that long for the new President to get in office, I belie that if one won the Votes  He/She should be in office within a week after the Final count of the Votes.

Not that simple in the US as you need to still go through the electoral college system. They have to appoint electors (by mid December), then they have to vote, then the votes need to be counted which goes to early Jan. Only then has he officially "won".

Inauguration Day used to be in March but the 1933 amendment moved it to 20th January.

I do agree though that it is a stupidly long time between public vote and office transfer. In the UK (if no hung parliament) it is usually done within 24 or 48 hours.

12 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

The rich can afford escorts, so they are stupid if they hide the sausage with a stranger.

Remember the rich guy that got slaughtered by some woman that he did it with in a cleaning cupboard at a restaurant, or something like that?

 

Just as well there is no big pay off for women doing the nasty with Joe Bloggs, or the courts would be backed up for years.

Leave me out of this.

22 minutes ago, digger70 said:

Biden Struggles to Navigate Delaware Beach & Stumbles Multiple Times.

 

IF JB isn't fit to be in office as the President Why not turn this job over to DT as he's the NEW President Chosen. Why wait till the end of January, He's voted in so what's the Delay.

Let DT do his job, he's better then what we had and what we got now.

No Excuses for the Delay till  January 20  

Because 20th January is written in your constitution as inauguration day.  If you think Donald is so special he deserves different treatment than every single other elected president since 1933 then start a petition for a constitutional amendment. You can call it the Delusional Amendment.

14 minutes ago, Smokey and the Bandit said:

Don't you just hate a sore loser?😂

I wasn't participating, so how could I lose? 

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

One hopes that no crisis arises before January 20 that requires a functioning human being in charge.

.....or after January 20 that requires a functioning human being in charge.

9 minutes ago, proton said:

 

You will have to try a bit harder, disgust is not anger. They are constantly rolling out this false narrative that England was always multicultural and diverse with a largish black population going back to the Romans, it's a lie and they know it is.

 

It is not a news report. It is light entertainment and it has some black actors in it. You guys really do get riled over nothing, it is quite hilarious.

9 minutes ago, proton said:

 

Playing WHITE historical people, GEDDIT. It's all one way of course, they are never going to cast a white actor to play Nelson Mandela or any black historical character, they are lying and rewriting our history.

Oh dear, Mr right wing snowflake is getting angry at the telly.

29 minutes ago, liddelljohn said:

Ah   its just come on with Windscribe , so I can watch now ,  

 

but  Nord   and surfshark  is still not connecting at all , maybe something with my laptop ???

 

Even when working NORD which is my normal VPN I have 2 years subscription is very very slow  these days ...not only in Thailand  ????

BBC iPlayer working fine for me with Nord. Watching it now.

I find sometimes if I try to watch and I've forgotten to connect my VPN it'll obviously block me. Then even when I connect it will continue to block me as it already knows I am not in the UK. Different browsers, disconnecting and reconnecting doesn't work. I'll usually try opening it in an incognito window (Chrome) and that seems to "reset" it. 

3 minutes ago, Pib said:

Onion chargers have been around for a while....they are mostly Level 2, 7KW or 22KW "AC" chargers....Onion has few DC Chargers.  I see them periodically in malls here in Bangkok like at Central Malls.

 

https://evat.or.th/ev-information/current-status/index

 

 

 

Thanks for the info, JB too. This was the first time I had ever noticed them. I don't have an EV which might explain why I've never noticed them but I do have real interest in them so I am normally quite observant of things EV related.

It was almost two years ago when I borrowed an EV for a three day road trip and even then I was surprised at how many different brands of charger there were (each one needing an app) but seems it has grown massively since.

I know if you charge at home you rarely need a public charger but it must be annoying at having so many different brands out there. Or do you tend to just stick with a couple of the main ones?

Yesterday I went to do my shop in Villa Thonglor. In the car park they had closed several bays to install EV chargers. They already had a couple of Porsche ones in there but these were called "Onion". Is this yet another brand of EV chargers? Never seen them before.

16 minutes ago, AndreasHG said:

Otherwise they would head toward the Republic of Ireland, where English is spoken, and where the economy is much healthier compared to the UK.

And how would they cross the 430kms of open water to get there?

15 minutes ago, Eloquent pilgrim said:

 

Remember that Labour were elected because of the UK’s bizarre FPTP electoral system; however, only approximately 20% of those on the electoral register actually voted for them. They do not have a mandate for the radical socialist changes they are implementing, and might need to call a general election well before their term of government is up.

 

 

You mean the FPTP system that the Tories campaigned, and voted, against changing whilst they were in power?