bkk_mike

If you look at the statistics, actual violent crime in the UK is way down. Stop getting your "news" from Facebook.

And add pictures that are completely unrelated. Picture of Clinton, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson with redacted pictures of children being a case in point. Picture had nothing to do with Epstein, and the redacted children... their own kids...

Those dates only make sense if you were with both women at the same time. A throuple? Was married at Bangrak personally, back in 1999. Anyway. Did all the running around (embassy, MFA, translation services, amphur in one day. Then did the monks, and wedding ceremony and reception the next.)

Just because you paid tax in the UK does not mean there isn't a tax liability in Thailand nowadays. There is a double taxation agreement so any tax paid in the UK will come off any tax due in Thailand, but it doesn't mean no taxes will be due (unless your pension is a Civil Service pension of some sort... Those are exempt in the DTA). Things to be particularly careful with are tax free lump sums, because being exempt from tax in the UK doesn't mean it's exempt in Thailand.

Until Brexit, we were part of the Dublin agreement, that meant we could send asylum seekers back to the first EU country they entered unless they had some sort of family ties to the UK. That we didn't do that is our own fault, not the EUs. Brexit means we exited from the Dublin agreement...

But the content is bad as well. I.e. there was an issue with the original dead-virus vaccine manufactured at one lab in California where they didn't kill the virus properly, so it got a bad reputation so the US switched to a live-virus vaccine for decades, which did have the issue that a tiny proportion of people could get the disease from the vaccine. But then they switched back to the dead-virus vaccine in the 90s to end that problem. I.e. It's talking about a problem that hasn't been a problem for 30 years...

Depends where the Brits are that you meet. If you spend your life in Pattaya, you're not exactly going to see the best of any country... Don't get me wrong. There are reasons for less seedy Brits to live in Pattaya - lots of English spoken and on the menus. Decent choice of food, cheaper than Bangkok, and some nice beaches. But it's where the seedy sort seem to flock to.

The Reform party activist got out of his padded cell. It's the reason they want to destroy the NHS so that anyone still in an asylum is let loose to join them

Actually, they probably won't. Last time the amounts went up, people who were already here were grandfathered in on the old amounts. But there are some nice bits of the Philippines, and you can join their universal healthcare system as a retiree, and if you're British your state pension doesn't get frozen. I think it's not as nice a place to live as Thailand, more dangerous, worse food, and hospitals are very much down to where you live. English is a lot more widely spoken as well. If I had been married to a Filipina for 26 years, rather than married to a Thai, I would seriously consider it.

Only by how low the fines are.

One thing. Diabetes is actually far more common in Thailand because white rice is really high on the glycemic index. Admittedly I greatly prefer a Massaman or a green curry over a phad Thai. With somtam as a starter. Doesn't mean I didn't pick up black pudding from Yorkies in Jomtien when we were near, before it closed, for cooking at home in Bangkok.

Pie and mash - yes. Jellied eels, not so much.

Said by someone who's almost certainly never eaten haggis, and has no clue how good it is.

Let the people who voted for the Tories who literally stopped processing asylum claims pay. They let the numbers in the system shoot up as nobody was either getting through and allowed in as a genuine asylum seeker (once you're through the process, you're allowed to work), or deported as a non-genuine asylum seeker. Putting up people while they're being processed is supposed to be temporary...

Great unless you're an identical twin... (And your twin is wanted for something). Or you have a doppelganger like Will Ferrell and the drummer from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.