https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenWe must be getting our info from different sources. From Perplexity, who is eligible to get the UK winter fuel allowanceFor England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, you can usually get the Winter Fuel Payment if you were born on or before 27 June 1960 and normally live in one of those places during the qualifying week. In practice, most people over State Pension age get it automatically, but it can be reduced or recovered if your taxable income is over £35,000. You are generally not eligible if you usually live outside England, Wales or Northern Ireland, were in prison for the qualifying week, were in hospital getting free treatment for the whole qualifying week, or your immigration status says you cannot claim public funds. For care homes, extra rules apply: some people living in care homes are not eligible, especially if they receive Pension Credit, Universal Credit, or income-related ESA and have lived there for the full relevant period. For Scotland, the rules are different because Winter Fuel Payment has been replaced there by a separate Pension Age Winter Heating Payment.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:47:58 +0000There most definitely were racist songs and chanting in 80s abd 90s. I remember one particular day at Fratton Park when the Portsmouth fans gave Justin Fashanu, a Brighton player at the time, a torrid time.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:47:51 +0000White nationalists and evangelical bible beaters LOVE them some dictator/trump UNTIL he sics his ICE thugs and the like on a friend or relative of theirs. Really rich that trump married and cheated on three different immigrants (Melani brought it "legally" to hang at the kit kat club which is like a Bkk Freelancer Bar for the rich) and is still cheered on by all those fine christians as he lines his pocket with corruption in plain view and is as far from the teaching of Jesus as it is possible to be. Praise Jesus and pass the ammunition comes to mind. His goal seems to be sure he breaks every "commandment", spits on the beatitudes, and craps on the constitution. In that regard he is doing the biggest bestest job in history. And maga cheers.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:45:52 +0000So what ignoring his pleas for help that he had been stabbed. So from the now on the non medically qualified police on arrival at a scene will assess whether it is worth calling out an ambulance. If you are involved in a crash and the police consider you a goner then they wont bother to call and ambulance. What is the point if you are going to die anyway. The fact is the police took no action. They should have checked, they didn't.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:44:49 +0000I gave you the 'cry-baby' emoji for that one. Understand what you tried to do? This isn't about your partners nor children. It is about you.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:41:12 +0000Do you mean people who RECEIVE or GIVE the most Thumbs down...........or maybe both!Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:40:14 +0000We know exactly how this union votes , UNITE HERE Local 11 officially endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024 and just endorsed far left Dem Tom Steyer for California Governor in 2026. National polls showed union members voted 56-57% for Harris vs. 41% for Trump. So yes, this is a solidly lefty leaning union, making political demands. Sporting events do involve ICE/Homeland Security every time. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit has provided security, anti counterfeiting, human trafficking prevention, and tactical support at multiple SB's , exactly the same role they play for the World Cup. No one is asking them to "preside" over the match, they’re there to stop real crimes around a massive international event ,exactly what the Congress initiated when they were formed decades ago.Demanding "ICE Out' at SoFi isn’t about beer or soccer , it’s about turning a major American hosted World Cup into a protected sanctuary zone for illegal immigrants and workers who want to evade U.S. immigration enforcement.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:39:03 +0000Tops in Thailand still sells Iceland products, so I guess they must be.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:37:40 +0000Funny how it doesn't take long for the real to appear, especially when you no longer interact. Give them enough rope......... I appreciate that and no, no one has caused me any pain here as I've always been honest about my life and have nothing to feel ashamed about, besides choosing the wrong partners and seeing my children's pain when they've figured their mothers out. Picking up the pieces is what I do, as they've always been the most important things in my life. I actually disliked it myself, interacting with a few here in long arguments, trying to prove my truths to some who couldn't care less about that truth, pissing a few here off by arguing too long with them, proving them wrong but having that deflected and turned around over and over like a broken record. Apologies again to the decent members here who understand what I tried to do.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:36:39 +0000You may have to wait a while!Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:36:39 +0000I'm white, not scared of other faiths and races, and I don't give a ____ what colour you are.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:35:51 +0000I think you give GB News too much credit!Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:35:12 +0000Hurting him? Don't be silly. If he is hurt, he is creating that pain for himself. Sick and stones...remember? It's your own mind creating the problems. If I accept free speech, why would I imagine speaking the truth might hurt someone else?Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:33:06 +0000Charging is as Motdaeng says, I did have to open an app to slide something to stop charging, but we used Spark or EVstationPluz auto charge. Whether it is quicker, I think comes down to your habits. We never stopped to charge and we never stayed on the charger longer than our stop anyway. Whether it is quicker, I think comes down to your habits. We never stopped specifically to charge and we never stayed on the charger longer than our stop anyway. I try to drink a lot of water and I do need to stop every couple of hours or less for a pee and my partner always wants something in a 7/11 too. In 1,900 km we never had to wait for the car, sometimes we were charging when the car was already at 80%. If we stopped we charged. The big surprise for me was PTT fuel stations, on the highways, virtually every one had chargers.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:32:09 +0000Nope, only a few, who have lived in the EEA or Switzerland since before 2020, will receive it. And you only get it if the average winter temperatures where you live are less than the warmest winter temperatures in the UK. So pensioners in France and Spain will never get it. Those names get it because I suppose they live in Switzerland. Its also now means tested. You don't get anything if your income exceeds £35,000.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:30:11 +0000Yes, it's ridiculous. The current Labour government tried to introduce means testing and got slaughtered for it, so u-turned!Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:30:07 +0000Read the room? You mean there is a group of you? 😉 Basically you have made an accusation of which you cannot provide any evidence. Yet, you wish me to accept a patent untruth. If it is true, it should be easy to demonstrate. If you need to trawl the distant past to find an example, that lends to the truth of you not seeing me having pointless arguments with @fredwiggy , now doesn't it? It's just something that lives on in your minds.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:29:39 +0000Like I said..small beer,DWP looking at old aged pensioners pension?...no chance,not a chance in hell,its small beer Not so fun fact ,Im older than you by quite a margin. Public sector retiree at 48,worked bit longer,not much ,then out to Thailand sha.g.ging myself to death I'm not asset rich,waste of time now,the house manages you, but few bob in bank.,good interest,all the savings plans going well,some at 7.2%,dont need it any more,light the fire with 20 quid notes OAP topped up by (forget wot ) 2 other inputs, no starvation there. I'm on OAP virt top rate,AA no tax, public sector which leaves OAP in the dust,pay big tax bill,and why not? then interest on savings. Thailand? you will be grasping hold of life there soon enough with visa crackdowns,happened in Goa years ago, creeping in "we want our country back"Just like UK now, once Reform in, it will be wicked,riots galore coming upSun, 07 Jun 2026 11:28:23 +0000Europe has to have mass migration or it will die!Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:27:43 +0000My head too. You love getting in long, ridiculous arguments with intelligent, open-minded people. You just refuse to answer any questions, lest you be found out.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:26:02 +0000Cheers. So it is. When did that happen? A good move I've been calling for since it was introduced.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:25:02 +0000The BIG one will be when "his" SCOTUS shuts down the birthright citizenship case in front of them.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:23:32 +0000No, I just moved on for the most part. I determined he is speaking his truth and was the type that didn't change coarse for better or worse. I definitely got zero pleasure out of possibly causing him pain. If you knew you were hurting him, would you stop?Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:23:25 +0000Read the room, we aren't going to trawl through threads to find examples, it's clear as day, I'm surprised you are oblivious to itSun, 07 Jun 2026 11:23:10 +0000You forgot Panama. Afghanistan and Vietnam were not invasions. In Afghanistan, the US, and others, were lending support to the Islamic State of Afghanistan, ostensibly lead by President Rabbini. In 2001, the Taliban lead the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which was recognised by no one. The US worked to restore the internationally recognised legitimate government. Not an invasion. The Vietnam War was more complicated. The US supported the internationally recognised Republic of South Vietnam. They did not invade South Vietnam. Where it gets grey is in Kampuchea, Laos, where the US had forces without the approval or knowledge of the recognised governments,. Notably, while there were air operations against North Vietnam, US troops did not cross into North Vietnam. You also forgot Korea. The US, and the UN forces, defended South Korea, and were nearly overrun. It was MacArthur who conducted a sea landing in North Vietnam, rapidly advancing to Pyongyang, which forced the current ceasefire. We can metaphorically bash a huxster like Hegseth, without demeaning the overall performance, since 1945, of the US, and how Pax Americana has been a benefit to both the world, and the US. Pax Americana was created by great men with tremendous vision, but is threatened by small men with no vision beyond the end of their nose. I'm not just talking about the current US "leadership". Remarkably, James Mattis never gave a D-Day speech, as Secretary for Defense. I kind of wish he did. I sense he was driven by duty above everything else, which is why he accepted the appointment from President Trump; he performed the role out of a sense of duty, and his love of the common soldier/airman/sailor, and not as an opportunity. When Hegseth related, crassly, the events of June 1944 with a current illegal immigration/refugee (choose your poison) crisis, he forgot the history of WW2 that should be seared into his Staff College brain. In the run up to WW2, Jews were fleeing Germany. In some countries, they were welcomed with open arms, in other countries with reluctance, and in still more countries, like Switzerland, with barely concealed hate. At the start of WW2, France was home to 300,000 Spanish who had fled Franco's repressions. 45 million people were internally displaced in China, resulting in Britain building refugee camps to house some of them; and not only Chinese. Russians fled China to Hong Kong, Russians who were opponents of the Soviets. Millions were displaced in Europe without a shot being fired. By the end of the war, there were 20 million European refugees, some going home, many without a home, some even stateless, or denied by their own countries. Refugees, movements of peoples are a symptom of a world gone wrong, not a cause. Hegseth complains of civilisational values under threat. If he refers to Christian values, that supposedly binds us, he forgets the Good Samaritan.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:20:16 +0000