OnTheRun

13 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

 

She should be doing what she is mandated to do - seek to extricate our country from this disastrous, incompetent and corrupt so-called union. 

We already answered that question with a once in a generation referendum which voted overwhelmingly in favour to remain part of the UK. Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP received less than 30% of the electoral vote and are only in power now thanks to being propped up by a so called Green Party, that's hardly a mandate.

As for the union being corrupt, don't make me laugh. Have you not been watching the goings on at the Salmond enquiry? It's a crying shame that it will be this enquiry that will bring down the duopoly of Nicola and her beard Murrell and not the rank incompetence she has presided over for the last 6 years. Care home deaths, hospitals built but unable to open, preventable deaths in the hospital they did manage to open and rusting ferries with painted on windows that have so far cost the tax payer 250 million pounds and are not even close to completion. 

2 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Typical Sturgeon, trying to use the pandemic to undermine the democratic will of the UK electorate and advance her own political agenda.

 

Totally unscrupulous and disingenuous. No shame whatsoever. ????

 

 

In short a horrible b*****d

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

Every couple of years this comes up, Phuket would grind to a halt

Last week it was invest a million dollars and we'll give you a visa. This week it's we're going to hunt you down. The usual double talk madness.

22 minutes ago, chilli42 said:

Well you can add me to that list and a couple of dozen foreign friends of mine who have made themselves rich here.   Risk?  There is less risk in Thailand.  The cost of starting and running a business here is far below North America and Europe.  Also, if you don’t like the rules here there is always a work around.  

Kudos to you mate, in almost 20 years residing in Thailand I know 1 person who has made his money (rich) within Thailand, everyone else made it before moving here. I don't doubt you have but for you to know 24 such people seems to be a bit of an over statement.

A summary as I read it, invest $1 million, presumably setting up a company you are only allowed to control 49% in, buy a house to live in which technically you are not allowed to own and they will grant you a work permit. It's not exactly deal of the century.

Did Thaksin have to buy Manchester City FC in the name of a UK bar girl all those years ago? 

It looks like dog eat dog in planet BiB, no tourists to scam must be hurting.

Of note, Col Khemmarin is no stranger to investigating disappearing government funds. He was the police officer who blew the whistle on funds from Bangkok that had disappeared after it had been dedicated to the Thailand Tsunami Victims Identification (TTVI) unit set up at Baan Nam Khem in Takuapa, Phang Nga, in the wake of the devastating Asian Tsunami in 2004.

Also of note, Col Khemmarin was a police colonel at that time 16 years ago. Since then, his superiors have not advanced his rank. Today, he remains a police colonel.

Sounds like the bold colonel <deleted> a few folks off 16 years ago, it would appear disrupting the flow of tea money to your superiors is frowned upon within the ranks of the BiB. 

34 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

If it was allowed.almost all the land in Thailand will be already owned by the chinese

they have the numbers. they have the money and they are ready to come in mass

The Chinese took over Thailand over 100 years ago.

Good news for us who travel to Hua Hin on a regular basis, hopefully the elevated section is completed on time as well.

9 minutes ago, Crash999 said:

From that video it’s clear that the bus didn’t get stuck. Driver wasn’t paying attention at all. 

That would appear to be a different accident. The picture in this story shows a passenger train, that is a freight train.

2 hours ago, crazykopite said:

For the last 10 years I have kept 800,000 in the bank yesterday I started tucking into it not because I need it but the way Thailand is going in future I will use an agent there seems to be enough of them who can sort your retirement visa for 15,000 baht with no need to have money tied up in a bank account . I’m fed up of all this BS they keep spewing out on a daily basis I can see a lot of we expats moving on by saying enough is enough.

Agreed, I've stopped getting my salary paid into Thailand and will just live off what I've salted away over the last decade or so. I have a condo which I'll sell if the price is right, if not it's a holiday home for use if and when I feel like visiting. I left Phuket 12 years ago, after 6 years basing myself there, because of the greed and general rip off culture that was steadily building up. I now feel the same about the whole country, for the first time in almost 20 years I'm seeking pastures new.

14 minutes ago, Petchou said:

I rarely use my credit card here in Thailand.  One time in same day, I used it at physician clinic and at a well known hotel restaurant in ayutthaya.  Next day my bank contacted me to let me know that someone have been trying to buy stuff online with my credit card.  I would have never suspected a clinic or well known luxury hotel to fraud their customers.  Since then, I never hand my credit card to anyone without being present during the transaction.  Don't give your credit card to someone who will disappear with even for one minute.  

Its more to with the staff than the actual vendor, the exact same thing happened to me in a well known nationwide store in Hua Hin. 

1 hour ago, aussiexpat said:

Covid insurance and Covid test pre-flight are COE requirements required additional to any Visa so would still be needed

Thats as far as you need to read in this thread to know this generous offer by the govt will entice people in the hundreds.

8 hours ago, donnacha said:

The class of Northern Ireland "Loyalist" who would proudly display a Red Hand of Ulster flag is equivalent to someone in the United States flying a confederate flag from the roof of his trailer home, or an Afrikaner with a swastika tattooed on his forehead.

These are trashy and dangerous people who tend to mostly socialize with their own kind and operate a form of omertà. That can come in useful in the aftermath of any mating rituals involving a machete.

99% of people from Northern Ireland are decent but if you ever come across someone with this flag as a tattoo or on their t-shirt, be wary of any involvement.

 

There are good, bad on both sides. If you want drop me a PM and I'll arrange a crane to get that chip of your shoulder.

36 minutes ago, Wildliferescue said:

Doctors should run hospitals, not countries. Obviously. 

And it follows generals should run armies........

21 minutes ago, AsiaCheese said:

Sad state of affairs when an article like this one only evokes China bashing

Of course China bashing is totally unwarranted isn't it? Even without knowing the true origin of the Covid pandemic, I and countless millions of others are a tad pi55ed off. The systematic cover up, the disappearing of scientists trying to reveal the true potential of the said virus and the pressure applied to the WHO to tag along with the lies they were spouting, all to save face for the CCP, is enough in my book to justify a little bit of China bashing.

4 hours ago, DrDave said:

I wonder what will happen when a STV holder decides or finds it necessary to leave Thailand before the end of the initial 90 days. Maybe an "understay" fine payable at departure?

That's the first thing that I noticed was the minimum stay requirement of 90 days, perhaps this part is a misunderstanding in translation or perhaps another 'brain fart' rule inserted by someone to justify their fat cat salary.

51 minutes ago, mlkik said:

As someone who has a non o retirement extention and visited my elderly Mother in the UK early March I have not been allowed to return.

The Thai government rules are that I must have 800 000 Thai baht in my Thai bank account. I have about 1 000 000 .

I bought a new car in May 2018 and I had a bungalow built on my other halfs Fathers land. I have to pay the bills as her beauty salon does not generate enough income to pay for 1st class car insurance and air con electric bills.

I expected wrongly that people on retirement extentions would be allowed to register for repat flights in the near future. 

Some people have said that this new tourist visa will be ideal for people like myself. I dissagree as I have an extention that is valid for another 4 months and a re entry permit. Why should I have to change this and apply for a tourist visa ?

I am prepared to pay for the ASQ and get my covid test within 72 hours of my flight and have an insurance policy that is ready to go but am not considered worthy of return to a place which I wrongly thought was my home.

As someone else mentioned people thinking of retiring in Thailand think very carefully !

 

Basic mistake there mate, you are a visitor nothing more nothing less. They care not a jot about their own people, you are below that in the pecking order.