Recent trip to UK with Qatar air- A very sad, heartbreaking visit.

[Yellowtail]

3 hours ago, mstevens said:

 

Err, if you pre-pay for it with your taxes, how can you call it free?! "Pre-paid", perhaps?

Like everything the government does. it's free for tax recipients, it's only costs the tax-payers. 

[mstevens]

55 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Like everything the government does. it's free for tax recipients, it's only costs the tax-payers. 

 

So you pay for it in taxes but it's free. Right...!

[kevozman1]

On 6/4/2025 at 7:07 PM, DonniePeverley said:

The UK offers dual citizenship for the racist pensioners in Pattaya. Realise Thailand and many countries would not offer this as soon as you leave their shores. 

 

10 of the best universities in the world are in the UK, and 18 in the top 50, with very little to pay for UK citizens. Compare that to Americans paying up to $60,000 a year to study ! See what Thais have to pay. 

 

Free health care through taxation. These racist pensioners in Thailand know full well they have the security of returning home. Compare that to Americans who require insurance and lose everything if they leave. 

 

It's the income in the UK and generous Benefits that allows you to live a life of calm in Thailand. And you know who is picking up the tab in the UK to do the hours you don't want to do - it's migrants. 

 

Now go away. 

 

A lot of the positives are built on past generations of the West, but the decline is obvious. It's a gradual one over many decades, and I have no idea how far they are going to drop the region, or how much they want to lower the standard of living for 80% of the populace before maybe there is an uptick. Anyway, it seems you have a problem with racism? I would inform you this is a site that focuses on subjects revolving mostly around Thailand, specifically expatriates/migrants in Thailand, which is in fact is a country that from the streets to the State is straight up xenophobic and puts its citizens welfare above that of visitors/non-citizens. Quite honestly as someone who values consistency, and if you do too, then it's you that should go away. Maybe you can try Stockholm, San Francisco, London, Sydney, or do you not like the results that 60 years of Modern Liberalism has brought about to those places?

[Yellowtail]

5 minutes ago, mstevens said:

 

So you pay for it in taxes but it's free. Right...!

As I said, it is only free to tax recipients. Not everyone that uses the services pay the taxes that support the services. 

[Jedimaster]

On 6/5/2025 at 12:43 AM, DonniePeverley said:

What a load of nonsense. 

 

Get yourself of to a racist forum. 

It is surprising to see so many woke-jacobins on this forum...immediately resorting to name calling since they don't have any contradictory arguments to offer...which only reinforces the points made by the poster under attack...

[newbee2022]

On 6/4/2025 at 11:42 PM, Scouse123 said:

I arrived in Bangkok from Isaarn the day before and stayed at Novotel Sukhumvit 4 area of Nana. Good hotel, but it's still Nana plaza, and no getting away from that.

 

Plush rooms, but I think I will revert to Nana hotel in the future, as I say, you can't escape the area.

 

I left Thailand, and I am on retirement extension, but left using the e gates without a hitch.

 

I was actually on a free flight this time using Avios points with Qatar and able to choose seats free of charge, due to Gold membership.

 

Not only that, but I was on the A380 as far as Doha and opted for the front seat 40A downstairs with loads of legroom. I was then on the A350, Doha to Manchester, again a decent seat with good legroom.

 

I was travelling alone as my other half chose not to come even though she has a 10-year tourist visa (more later).

 

Both flights were very good, great attentive staff and decent planes. I was a bit worried as Qatar have been in the news lately for not so good reviews. I found everything to be great, to be honest.

 

The weather in the UK for my three weeks was amazing, and I was very fortunate to have caught a good spring.

 

Now the bad stuff.

 

Supermarket prices have gone through the roof since my visit last year, and prices were very noticeable and much higher than previous visits. Drinking in decent places, unless you want to spend three weeks in Wetherspoon's, which I didn't, you don't get much change from a fiver for a pint.

 

Outside the supermarkets, I visited about three different store brands from Tesco to Asda during my time there, plenty of beggars asking for change, These were white British people, many on drugs. It was like rough areas of the USA we see on TV.

 

I drove past and saw queues outside food banks. I was told by my son, that many were not desperate, they were begging food then selling it cheap to buy drugs,

 

We drove through an area where I was brought up as a child, which has now become a Pakistani stronghold, and they have built a large mosque. It was unrecognizable. Litter everywhere on the streets, as well as discarded sofas, fridges, just dumped anywhere and everywhere. It was like a filthy slum. There were rats scurrying around and these were visible in the daytime. Overflowing rubbish bins from takeaway shops, the towns are full of them, not sealed and food waste on the floor.

 

The town centres and city centres have been overrun by drug addicts aggressively asking people for money in the streets and not a policeman in sight.

 

I was also stopped by shoplifters selling everything from cheap perfume to bulk packs of washing powder.

 

There were groups of East Europeans on street corners, leering at passers-by. They were obviously up to no good.

 

The city centres, I visited a few, are now full of vape shops or alleged '  TURKISH BARBER SHOPS '  which are not Turkish, they are Pakistani money laundering shops that only take cash.

 

All the shops of yesteryear are gone. Everybody buys online. Town and city centres are no longer family friendly.

 

I saw women in the towns with children and babies, holding and waving bottles of booze and drunk at 11am in the morning.

 

A couple of what used to be good hotels in the centre are now fully occupied with migrants.

 

I was told the government is offering HMO owners, (houses for multiple occupancy) 50 GBP per room per night to house migrants on a 5-year contract.

 

I did take a trip out and up to North Yorkshire, and I was in the England of old, and it was refreshing. Those people are living in a different universe. Horse riders out for a canter, lovely food based pubs with staff with impeccable manners and clean streets and no migrants.

 

I must state I was there for business reasons, but I have never been as happy to get on a plane back to Thailand.

 

Now, do you wonder why my other half said she didn't want to go and thought it better I went alone, and she would look after the farmstead and her mother. I don't blame her, nor can I understand any Thai wanting to visit the UK. 

 

The trip was heartbreaking.

 

However, Kier Starmer and his millionaire lefties cabinet colleagues are not seeing any of this. They are living far away in leafy suburbs, driving around in police convoys with armed bodyguards, oblivious as to what is going on in the North of England.

 

On 6/4/2025 at 11:42 PM, Scouse123 said:

I arrived in Bangkok from Isaarn the day before and stayed at Novotel Sukhumvit 4 area of Nana. Good hotel, but it's still Nana plaza, and no getting away from that.

 

Plush rooms, but I think I will revert to Nana hotel in the future, as I say, you can't escape the area.

 

I left Thailand, and I am on retirement extension, but left using the e gates without a hitch.

 

I was actually on a free flight this time using Avios points with Qatar and able to choose seats free of charge, due to Gold membership.

 

Not only that, but I was on the A380 as far as Doha and opted for the front seat 40A downstairs with loads of legroom. I was then on the A350, Doha to Manchester, again a decent seat with good legroom.

 

I was travelling alone as my other half chose not to come even though she has a 10-year tourist visa (more later).

 

Both flights were very good, great attentive staff and decent planes. I was a bit worried as Qatar have been in the news lately for not so good reviews. I found everything to be great, to be honest.

 

The weather in the UK for my three weeks was amazing, and I was very fortunate to have caught a good spring.

 

Now the bad stuff.

 

Supermarket prices have gone through the roof since my visit last year, and prices were very noticeable and much higher than previous visits. Drinking in decent places, unless you want to spend three weeks in Wetherspoon's, which I didn't, you don't get much change from a fiver for a pint.

 

Outside the supermarkets, I visited about three different store brands from Tesco to Asda during my time there, plenty of beggars asking for change, These were white British people, many on drugs. It was like rough areas of the USA we see on TV.

 

I drove past and saw queues outside food banks. I was told by my son, that many were not desperate, they were begging food then selling it cheap to buy drugs,

 

We drove through an area where I was brought up as a child, which has now become a Pakistani stronghold, and they have built a large mosque. It was unrecognizable. Litter everywhere on the streets, as well as discarded sofas, fridges, just dumped anywhere and everywhere. It was like a filthy slum. There were rats scurrying around and these were visible in the daytime. Overflowing rubbish bins from takeaway shops, the towns are full of them, not sealed and food waste on the floor.

 

The town centres and city centres have been overrun by drug addicts aggressively asking people for money in the streets and not a policeman in sight.

 

I was also stopped by shoplifters selling everything from cheap perfume to bulk packs of washing powder.

 

There were groups of East Europeans on street corners, leering at passers-by. They were obviously up to no good.

 

The city centres, I visited a few, are now full of vape shops or alleged '  TURKISH BARBER SHOPS '  which are not Turkish, they are Pakistani money laundering shops that only take cash.

 

All the shops of yesteryear are gone. Everybody buys online. Town and city centres are no longer family friendly.

 

I saw women in the towns with children and babies, holding and waving bottles of booze and drunk at 11am in the morning.

 

A couple of what used to be good hotels in the centre are now fully occupied with migrants.

 

I was told the government is offering HMO owners, (houses for multiple occupancy) 50 GBP per room per night to house migrants on a 5-year contract.

 

I did take a trip out and up to North Yorkshire, and I was in the England of old, and it was refreshing. Those people are living in a different universe. Horse riders out for a canter, lovely food based pubs with staff with impeccable manners and clean streets and no migrants.

 

I must state I was there for business reasons, but I have never been as happy to get on a plane back to Thailand.

 

Now, do you wonder why my other half said she didn't want to go and thought it better I went alone, and she would look after the farmstead and her mother. I don't blame her, nor can I understand any Thai wanting to visit the UK. 

 

The trip was heartbreaking.

 

However, Kier Starmer and his millionaire lefties cabinet colleagues are not seeing any of this. They are living far away in leafy suburbs, driving around in police convoys with armed bodyguards, oblivious as to what is going on in the North of England.

I was reading your post.

Almost up to last "paragraph" it was interesting.

But the last is just blaming somebody who did not create the misery but inherited:

Keir Starmer.

All the Tories before neglected the rising problems. When I visited Blackpool 15 years ago it was already a nightmare. Only a facade of beauty and wealth. A rotten place but home for rats on 2 or 4 legs.

Point to the right people. 🙏

[Red Forever]

The OP became more racist as he droned on and on. I stopped reading his racist drivel when he seemed irked that he was allowed into Heathrow by a “Pakistani” (bet he wasn’t) immigration officer.

 I spent January in UK and saw none of the misery that the OP described but I guess that’s because I wasn’t looking for and hoping to find such misery as the UK hating OP.

[Yellowtail]

Everyone that does not like immigrants flooding into their county is a racist. 

[Formaleins]

You can see just why the UK and the West is in such a mess simply by reading the "usual" responses from the "Usual" suspects on this forum - They are sitting there like either the proverbially frog in the pan of cold water, with the gas on and heating up, getting a bit warmer eh? They will still be sitting their spouting their usual woke anti racists "Antifa Crap" - Then there is the other group, the Nero brigade, gladly fiddling away while they watch their Rome burn.

A perfectly well written well observed honest post just letting us know how it is in our once proud homes, as we see them turned into the third world rape havens for muslims. Get a life, take a look around you, are you blind?

[Unamerican]

17 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Everyone that does not like immigrants flooding into their county is a racist. 

And so are many others! Or not? 

[Yellowtail]

Just now, Unamerican said:

And so are many others! Or not? 

or not

[Unamerican]

29 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

When I visited Blackpool 15 years ago it was already a nightmare.

Yes, Blackpool really is something else! 

[iaminwa]

On 6/5/2025 at 12:42 AM, Scouse123 said:

I arrived in Bangkok from Isaarn the day before and stayed at Novotel Sukhumvit 4 area of Nana. Good hotel, but it's still Nana plaza, and no getting away from that.

 

Plush rooms, but I think I will revert to Nana hotel in the future, as I say, you can't escape the area.

 

I left Thailand, and I am on retirement extension, but left using the e gates without a hitch.

 

I was actually on a free flight this time using Avios points with Qatar and able to choose seats free of charge, due to Gold membership.

 

Not only that, but I was on the A380 as far as Doha and opted for the front seat 40A downstairs with loads of legroom. I was then on the A350, Doha to Manchester, again a decent seat with good legroom.

 

I was travelling alone as my other half chose not to come even though she has a 10-year tourist visa (more later).

 

Both flights were very good, great attentive staff and decent planes. I was a bit worried as Qatar have been in the news lately for not so good reviews. I found everything to be great, to be honest.

 

The weather in the UK for my three weeks was amazing, and I was very fortunate to have caught a good spring.

 

Now the bad stuff.

 

Supermarket prices have gone through the roof since my visit last year, and prices were very noticeable and much higher than previous visits. Drinking in decent places, unless you want to spend three weeks in Wetherspoon's, which I didn't, you don't get much change from a fiver for a pint.

 

Outside the supermarkets, I visited about three different store brands from Tesco to Asda during my time there, plenty of beggars asking for change, These were white British people, many on drugs. It was like rough areas of the USA we see on TV.

 

I drove past and saw queues outside food banks. I was told by my son, that many were not desperate, they were begging food then selling it cheap to buy drugs,

 

We drove through an area where I was brought up as a child, which has now become a Pakistani stronghold, and they have built a large mosque. It was unrecognizable. Litter everywhere on the streets, as well as discarded sofas, fridges, just dumped anywhere and everywhere. It was like a filthy slum. There were rats scurrying around and these were visible in the daytime. Overflowing rubbish bins from takeaway shops, the towns are full of them, not sealed and food waste on the floor.

 

The town centres and city centres have been overrun by drug addicts aggressively asking people for money in the streets and not a policeman in sight.

 

I was also stopped by shoplifters selling everything from cheap perfume to bulk packs of washing powder.

 

There were groups of East Europeans on street corners, leering at passers-by. They were obviously up to no good.

 

The city centres, I visited a few, are now full of vape shops or alleged '  TURKISH BARBER SHOPS '  which are not Turkish, they are Pakistani money laundering shops that only take cash.

 

All the shops of yesteryear are gone. Everybody buys online. Town and city centres are no longer family friendly.

 

I saw women in the towns with children and babies, holding and waving bottles of booze and drunk at 11am in the morning.

 

A couple of what used to be good hotels in the centre are now fully occupied with migrants.

 

I was told the government is offering HMO owners, (houses for multiple occupancy) 50 GBP per room per night to house migrants on a 5-year contract.

 

I did take a trip out and up to North Yorkshire, and I was in the England of old, and it was refreshing. Those people are living in a different universe. Horse riders out for a canter, lovely food based pubs with staff with impeccable manners and clean streets and no migrants.

 

I must state I was there for business reasons, but I have never been as happy to get on a plane back to Thailand.

 

Now, do you wonder why my other half said she didn't want to go and thought it better I went alone, and she would look after the farmstead and her mother. I don't blame her, nor can I understand any Thai wanting to visit the UK. 

 

The trip was heartbreaking.

 

However, Kier Starmer and his millionaire lefties cabinet colleagues are not seeing any of this. They are living far away in leafy suburbs, driving around in police convoys with armed bodyguards, oblivious as to what is going on in the North of England.

You forgot to mention the good stuff:

 

Wine 50% cheaper than Thailand - and I drink a lot of wine. (was quite often corked in Thailand due to the heat and mishandling).

Spirits 50% cheaper than Thailand - and I drink a lot of spirits.

Good cheap salads and vegetables.

Cheaper good quality steaks.

Clean air.

You can see the stars at night.

Free health insurance.

I can drive or ride again on safe roads.

Forced home during COVID, and love it. Been back to Thailand a few times since COVID, and it now sucks with prices now 40 - 50% higher on everything.

Many signs pointing to Thai banks now pulling into line with International standards/reporting, and signs government is looking to tax Farangs living in Thailand such as Digital Nomads and Oil and Gas workers etc.

Stupid lady drink quotas in bars etc. etc. etc.

 

 

No taxi scams.

 

[Stocky]

On 6/5/2025 at 10:35 AM, Kinnock said:

 

You seem to be avoiding the issue as deep down you know the UK is a lost cause, and that's why most forum members choose to live in a different country.

I moved to SE Asia for work 

[Social Media]

@Unamerican a trolling comment in response to a snipped quote has been removed. Please do not take out of context the post you reply to.

 

Another nonsense troll post of yours additionally removed.

[soalbundy]

On 6/5/2025 at 1:07 AM, DonniePeverley said:

The UK offers dual citizenship for the racist pensioners in Pattaya. Realise Thailand and many countries would not offer this as soon as you leave their shores. 

 

10 of the best universities in the world are in the UK, and 18 in the top 50, with very little to pay for UK citizens. Compare that to Americans paying up to $60,000 a year to study ! See what Thais have to pay. 

 

Free health care through taxation. These racist pensioners in Thailand know full well they have the security of returning home. Compare that to Americans who require insurance and lose everything if they leave. 

 

It's the income in the UK and generous Benefits that allows you to live a life of calm in Thailand. And you know who is picking up the tab in the UK to do the hours you don't want to do - it's migrants. 

 

Now go away. 

As an expat you have no free health care upon your return, not without a considerable waiting time to prove you have truly returned and there are hoops to jump through in order to repatriate. If you wish to rent a property you have a problem as you have no credit history. Even as an established long term British citizen the waiting times to see a specialist or get a hospital appointment are so long that many people choose to go private (if they can afford it) rather than rely on the NHS. I know of two British citizens who chose to go abroad for private treatment (cheaper) than continue to wait for 3 years on the NHS. This isn't new either, 55 years ago after a bad road accident I was given a waiting time of 4 years to repair my badly damaged nose, I moved to Germany for work and after a bout of flu was operated on to repair my nose immediately under the German health care system. I've never been back to the UK and have no intention of doing so, it's a disaster zone according to my middle class brother who still languishes there, the rest of my family moved to Australia long ago.

[Yellowtail]

4 minutes ago, Unamerican said:

What are “tax recipients”, please? 

People that do not work, but still receive the benefits working people's taxes pay for. 

[Expat68]

On 6/4/2025 at 11:42 PM, Scouse123 said:

I arrived in Bangkok from Isaarn the day before and stayed at Novotel Sukhumvit 4 area of Nana. Good hotel, but it's still Nana plaza, and no getting away from that.

 

Plush rooms, but I think I will revert to Nana hotel in the future, as I say, you can't escape the area.

 

I left Thailand, and I am on retirement extension, but left using the e gates without a hitch.

 

I was actually on a free flight this time using Avios points with Qatar and able to choose seats free of charge, due to Gold membership.

 

Not only that, but I was on the A380 as far as Doha and opted for the front seat 40A downstairs with loads of legroom. I was then on the A350, Doha to Manchester, again a decent seat with good legroom.

 

I was travelling alone as my other half chose not to come even though she has a 10-year tourist visa (more later).

 

Both flights were very good, great attentive staff and decent planes. I was a bit worried as Qatar have been in the news lately for not so good reviews. I found everything to be great, to be honest.

 

The weather in the UK for my three weeks was amazing, and I was very fortunate to have caught a good spring.

 

Now the bad stuff.

 

Supermarket prices have gone through the roof since my visit last year, and prices were very noticeable and much higher than previous visits. Drinking in decent places, unless you want to spend three weeks in Wetherspoon's, which I didn't, you don't get much change from a fiver for a pint.

 

Outside the supermarkets, I visited about three different store brands from Tesco to Asda during my time there, plenty of beggars asking for change, These were white British people, many on drugs. It was like rough areas of the USA we see on TV.

 

I drove past and saw queues outside food banks. I was told by my son, that many were not desperate, they were begging food then selling it cheap to buy drugs,

 

We drove through an area where I was brought up as a child, which has now become a Pakistani stronghold, and they have built a large mosque. It was unrecognizable. Litter everywhere on the streets, as well as discarded sofas, fridges, just dumped anywhere and everywhere. It was like a filthy slum. There were rats scurrying around and these were visible in the daytime. Overflowing rubbish bins from takeaway shops, the towns are full of them, not sealed and food waste on the floor.

 

The town centres and city centres have been overrun by drug addicts aggressively asking people for money in the streets and not a policeman in sight.

 

I was also stopped by shoplifters selling everything from cheap perfume to bulk packs of washing powder.

 

There were groups of East Europeans on street corners, leering at passers-by. They were obviously up to no good.

 

The city centres, I visited a few, are now full of vape shops or alleged '  TURKISH BARBER SHOPS '  which are not Turkish, they are Pakistani money laundering shops that only take cash.

 

All the shops of yesteryear are gone. Everybody buys online. Town and city centres are no longer family friendly.

 

I saw women in the towns with children and babies, holding and waving bottles of booze and drunk at 11am in the morning.

 

A couple of what used to be good hotels in the centre are now fully occupied with migrants.

 

I was told the government is offering HMO owners, (houses for multiple occupancy) 50 GBP per room per night to house migrants on a 5-year contract.

 

I did take a trip out and up to North Yorkshire, and I was in the England of old, and it was refreshing. Those people are living in a different universe. Horse riders out for a canter, lovely food based pubs with staff with impeccable manners and clean streets and no migrants.

 

I must state I was there for business reasons, but I have never been as happy to get on a plane back to Thailand.

 

Now, do you wonder why my other half said she didn't want to go and thought it better I went alone, and she would look after the farmstead and her mother. I don't blame her, nor can I understand any Thai wanting to visit the UK. 

 

The trip was heartbreaking.

 

However, Kier Starmer and his millionaire lefties cabinet colleagues are not seeing any of this. They are living far away in leafy suburbs, driving around in police convoys with armed bodyguards, oblivious as to what is going on in the North of England.

 

On 6/4/2025 at 11:42 PM, Scouse123 said:

I arrived in Bangkok from Isaarn the day before and stayed at Novotel Sukhumvit 4 area of Nana. Good hotel, but it's still Nana plaza, and no getting away from that.

 

Plush rooms, but I think I will revert to Nana hotel in the future, as I say, you can't escape the area.

 

I left Thailand, and I am on retirement extension, but left using the e gates without a hitch.

 

I was actually on a free flight this time using Avios points with Qatar and able to choose seats free of charge, due to Gold membership.

 

Not only that, but I was on the A380 as far as Doha and opted for the front seat 40A downstairs with loads of legroom. I was then on the A350, Doha to Manchester, again a decent seat with good legroom.

 

I was travelling alone as my other half chose not to come even though she has a 10-year tourist visa (more later).

 

Both flights were very good, great attentive staff and decent planes. I was a bit worried as Qatar have been in the news lately for not so good reviews. I found everything to be great, to be honest.

 

The weather in the UK for my three weeks was amazing, and I was very fortunate to have caught a good spring.

 

Now the bad stuff.

 

Supermarket prices have gone through the roof since my visit last year, and prices were very noticeable and much higher than previous visits. Drinking in decent places, unless you want to spend three weeks in Wetherspoon's, which I didn't, you don't get much change from a fiver for a pint.

 

Outside the supermarkets, I visited about three different store brands from Tesco to Asda during my time there, plenty of beggars asking for change, These were white British people, many on drugs. It was like rough areas of the USA we see on TV.

 

I drove past and saw queues outside food banks. I was told by my son, that many were not desperate, they were begging food then selling it cheap to buy drugs,

 

We drove through an area where I was brought up as a child, which has now become a Pakistani stronghold, and they have built a large mosque. It was unrecognizable. Litter everywhere on the streets, as well as discarded sofas, fridges, just dumped anywhere and everywhere. It was like a filthy slum. There were rats scurrying around and these were visible in the daytime. Overflowing rubbish bins from takeaway shops, the towns are full of them, not sealed and food waste on the floor.

 

The town centres and city centres have been overrun by drug addicts aggressively asking people for money in the streets and not a policeman in sight.

 

I was also stopped by shoplifters selling everything from cheap perfume to bulk packs of washing powder.

 

There were groups of East Europeans on street corners, leering at passers-by. They were obviously up to no good.

 

The city centres, I visited a few, are now full of vape shops or alleged '  TURKISH BARBER SHOPS '  which are not Turkish, they are Pakistani money laundering shops that only take cash.

 

All the shops of yesteryear are gone. Everybody buys online. Town and city centres are no longer family friendly.

 

I saw women in the towns with children and babies, holding and waving bottles of booze and drunk at 11am in the morning.

 

A couple of what used to be good hotels in the centre are now fully occupied with migrants.

 

I was told the government is offering HMO owners, (houses for multiple occupancy) 50 GBP per room per night to house migrants on a 5-year contract.

 

I did take a trip out and up to North Yorkshire, and I was in the England of old, and it was refreshing. Those people are living in a different universe. Horse riders out for a canter, lovely food based pubs with staff with impeccable manners and clean streets and no migrants.

 

I must state I was there for business reasons, but I have never been as happy to get on a plane back to Thailand.

 

Now, do you wonder why my other half said she didn't want to go and thought it better I went alone, and she would look after the farmstead and her mother. I don't blame her, nor can I understand any Thai wanting to visit the UK. 

 

The trip was heartbreaking.

 

However, Kier Starmer and his millionaire lefties cabinet colleagues are not seeing any of this. They are living far away in leafy suburbs, driving around in police convoys with armed bodyguards, oblivious as to what is going on in the North of England.

Wow! Wow!

I was reading your post and I thought to myself this is not the England I visited in the last two weeks, then I came to the bit about North Yorkshire. I am feeling so lucky that all my life has been living there, you are correct, it has been 13 years since I have been home and it has not changed 

[Scouse123]

53 minutes ago, Red Forever said:

The OP became more racist as he droned on and on. I stopped reading his racist drivel when he seemed irked that he was allowed into Heathrow by a “Pakistani” (bet he wasn’t) immigration officer.

 I spent January in UK and saw none of the misery that the OP described but I guess that’s because I wasn’t looking for and hoping to find such misery as the UK hating OP.

 

 

Then you have commented and opened your mouth without reading the post properly .

 

You didn't stop reading the post, you didn't read it at all.

 

1. I didn't fly into Heathrow and nowhere in my post have I suggested that, nor in my post was I allowed into Heathrow by a Pakistani immigration officer. I flew in to MANCHESTER.

 

So, why are you telling blatant lies?

 

2. I flew into Manchester from Doha.

 

3. I do not hate the UK in any shape or form, I have two sons and Siblings there, and I still do business there in house building.

 

Where do you get off on here telling outrageous untruths?

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

 

 

Then you have commented and opened your mouth without reading the post properly .

 

1. I didn't fly into Heathrow and nowhere in my post have I suggested that, nor in my post was I allowed into Heathrow by a Pakistani immigration officer. So, why are you telling blatant lies?

 

2. I flew into Manchester from Doha.

 

3. I do not hate the UK in any shape or form, I have two sons and Siblings there, and I still do business there in house building.

 

Where do you get off on here telling outrageous untruths?

It's all the left has. 

[Scouse123]

24 minutes ago, iaminwa said:

You forgot to mention the good stuff:

 

Wine 50% cheaper than Thailand - and I drink a lot of wine. (was quite often corked in Thailand due to the heat and mishandling).

Spirits 50% cheaper than Thailand - and I drink a lot of spirits.

Good cheap salads and vegetables.

Cheaper good quality steaks.

Clean air.

You can see the stars at night.

Free health insurance.

I can drive or ride again on safe roads.

Forced home during COVID, and love it. Been back to Thailand a few times since COVID, and it now sucks with prices now 40 - 50% higher on everything.

Many signs pointing to Thai banks now pulling into line with International standards/reporting, and signs government is looking to tax Farangs living in Thailand such as Digital Nomads and Oil and Gas workers etc.

Stupid lady drink quotas in bars etc. etc. etc.

 

 

No taxi scams.

 

 

1. Yes, wine, I bought it cheap and drank plenty of it.

2. I didn't buy spirits.

3. Salads and veg I ate plenty.

4. I have private insurance both in Thailand and the UK.

5. I drive on both sets of roads, I drive a lot in Thailand without a problem.

6. Doesn't apply to me.

7.I am already registered for tax in Thailand AND England.

8. I am not a digital nomad.

9. I don't go to lady bars, I am with current partner 29 years.

[Scouse123]

17 minutes ago, Expat68 said:

 

Wow! Wow!

I was reading your post and I thought to myself this is not the England I visited in the last two weeks, then I came to the bit about North Yorkshire. I am feeling so lucky that all my life has been living there, you are correct, it has been 13 years since I have been home and it has not changed 

 

North Yorkshire was excellent.

[BangkokHank]

On 6/5/2025 at 12:43 AM, DonniePeverley said:

What a load of nonsense. 

 

Get yourself of to a racist forum. 

If not wanting to have your once great country destroyed by Third World riff-raff brought in to deliberately destroy your country makes one a racist, then I'm a racist too.

[Yellowtail]

2 minutes ago, BangkokHank said:

If not wanting to have your once great country destroyed by Third World riff-raff brought in to deliberately destroy your country makes one a racist, then I'm a racist too.

And if you do not want men showing with your daughter, you're a transphobe as well. 

 

And if you want to keep most of the money you work for, you're greedy. 

[wensiensheng]

On 6/4/2025 at 11:42 PM, Scouse123 said:

I arrived in Bangkok from Isaarn the day before and stayed at Novotel Sukhumvit 4 area of Nana. Good hotel, but it's still Nana plaza, and no getting away from that.

 

Plush rooms, but I think I will revert to Nana hotel in the future, as I say, you can't escape the area.

 

I left Thailand, and I am on retirement extension, but left using the e gates without a hitch.

 

I was actually on a free flight this time using Avios points with Qatar and able to choose seats free of charge, due to Gold membership.

 

Not only that, but I was on the A380 as far as Doha and opted for the front seat 40A downstairs with loads of legroom. I was then on the A350, Doha to Manchester, again a decent seat with good legroom.

 

I was travelling alone as my other half chose not to come even though she has a 10-year tourist visa (more later).

 

Both flights were very good, great attentive staff and decent planes. I was a bit worried as Qatar have been in the news lately for not so good reviews. I found everything to be great, to be honest.

 

The weather in the UK for my three weeks was amazing, and I was very fortunate to have caught a good spring.

 

Now the bad stuff.

 

Supermarket prices have gone through the roof since my visit last year, and prices were very noticeable and much higher than previous visits. Drinking in decent places, unless you want to spend three weeks in Wetherspoon's, which I didn't, you don't get much change from a fiver for a pint.

 

Outside the supermarkets, I visited about three different store brands from Tesco to Asda during my time there, plenty of beggars asking for change, These were white British people, many on drugs. It was like rough areas of the USA we see on TV.

 

I drove past and saw queues outside food banks. I was told by my son, that many were not desperate, they were begging food then selling it cheap to buy drugs,

 

We drove through an area where I was brought up as a child, which has now become a Pakistani stronghold, and they have built a large mosque. It was unrecognizable. Litter everywhere on the streets, as well as discarded sofas, fridges, just dumped anywhere and everywhere. It was like a filthy slum. There were rats scurrying around and these were visible in the daytime. Overflowing rubbish bins from takeaway shops, the towns are full of them, not sealed and food waste on the floor.

 

The town centres and city centres have been overrun by drug addicts aggressively asking people for money in the streets and not a policeman in sight.

 

I was also stopped by shoplifters selling everything from cheap perfume to bulk packs of washing powder.

 

There were groups of East Europeans on street corners, leering at passers-by. They were obviously up to no good.

 

The city centres, I visited a few, are now full of vape shops or alleged '  TURKISH BARBER SHOPS '  which are not Turkish, they are Pakistani money laundering shops that only take cash.

 

All the shops of yesteryear are gone. Everybody buys online. Town and city centres are no longer family friendly.

 

I saw women in the towns with children and babies, holding and waving bottles of booze and drunk at 11am in the morning.

 

A couple of what used to be good hotels in the centre are now fully occupied with migrants.

 

I was told the government is offering HMO owners, (houses for multiple occupancy) 50 GBP per room per night to house migrants on a 5-year contract.

 

I did take a trip out and up to North Yorkshire, and I was in the England of old, and it was refreshing. Those people are living in a different universe. Horse riders out for a canter, lovely food based pubs with staff with impeccable manners and clean streets and no migrants.

 

I must state I was there for business reasons, but I have never been as happy to get on a plane back to Thailand.

 

Now, do you wonder why my other half said she didn't want to go and thought it better I went alone, and she would look after the farmstead and her mother. I don't blame her, nor can I understand any Thai wanting to visit the UK. 

 

The trip was heartbreaking.

 

However, Kier Starmer and his millionaire lefties cabinet colleagues are not seeing any of this. They are living far away in leafy suburbs, driving around in police convoys with armed bodyguards, oblivious as to what is going on in the North of England.

I note that you flew to Manchester, but you don’t really say which specific parts of England you visited. The country is is in danger of becoming a failed state imho, but not really for the reasons you describe.

 

I usually visit Cornwall (where my mother lives) and St Albans ( where my son lives) and visually both are very nice places with none of the slum type conditions you describe.

 

But having said that, it’s clearly evident that most aspects of British life are suffering from systemic overload. NHS, finding a dentist, roads, motorways, airports, passport issuance, every aspect of British life that  that I experience is overloaded to the extreme and in danger of breaking down. Delays to achieve virtually anything are very long and getting longer. There is simply no slack in functions of public life and zero planning for the future.

 

Take the NHS, something I know quite well since my mother is elderly and in need of constant care. There are no spare hospital beds in Cornwall and patients, such as my mother, routinely spend nights in an ambulance in the hospital car park.
 

Ok, that’s the current position. So how many new hospitals are being built in Cornwall? Answer: none. Instead they keep trying to squeeze more out of the current situation by not hospitalising people or, simply letting waiting times get longer and longer.

 

So that’s just one example of what I am trying to explain and why I would never live in England and why my sister also left two years ago to live overseas. 
 

The country’s infrastructure is slowly breaking down.

[Scouse123]

4 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

I note that you flew to Manchester, but you don’t really say which specific parts of England you visited. The country is is in danger of becoming a failed state imho, but not really for the reasons you describe.

 

I usually visit Cornwall (where my mother lives) and St Albans ( where my son lives) and visually both are very nice places with none of the slum type conditions you describe.

 

But having said that, it’s clearly evident that most aspects of British life are suffering from systemic overload. NHS, finding a dentist, roads, motorways, airports, passport issuance, every aspect of British life that  that I experience is overloaded to the extreme and in danger of breaking down. Delays to achieve virtually anything are very long and getting longer. There is simply no slack in functions of public life and zero planning for the future.

 

Take the NHS, something I know quite well since my mother is elderly and in need of constant care. There are no spare hospital beds in Cornwall and patients, such as my mother, routinely spend nights in an ambulance in the hospital car park.
 

Ok, that’s the current position. So how many new hospitals are being built in Cornwall? Answer: none. Instead they keep trying to squeeze more out of the current situation by not hospitalising people or, simply letting waiting times get longer and longer.

 

So that’s just one example of what I am trying to explain and why I would never live in England and why my sister also left two years ago to live overseas. 
 

The country’s infrastructure is slowly breaking down.

 

Hi,

 

I did actually list further down in another post in this thread all the towns and cities I visited, but they were all in The North and all were in close proximity to one another by car.

[Red Forever]

On 6/6/2025 at 4:50 AM, Scouse123 said:

You can't vote for Tommy, he has no political standing.

 

So what are you talking about?

 

Furthermore my post is not anti immigration , my post is about what I saw whilst in the UK.

No it wasn’t. What I read of it was an increasingly racist rant.

 I bet you believe that all of your perceived misery in UK began on July 4th 2024.

[wensiensheng]

6 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

 

Hi,

 

I did actually list further down in another post in this thread all the towns and cities I visited, but they were all in The North and all were in close proximity to one another by car.

Apologies. I read your original post and responded to that. Couldn’t wade through 8 pages of responses 

[Yellowtail]

5 minutes ago, Red Forever said:

No it wasn’t. What I read of it was an increasingly racist rant.

 I bet you believe that all of your perceived misery in UK began on July 4th 2024.

What specifically did you think was racist? Just listing a few would be fine. 

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, wensiensheng said:

Apologies. I read your original post and responded to that. Couldn’t wade through 8 pages of responses 

Well, you could have, you just did not want to.