@Stephan **********

I can't remember the exact source but I saw an explicit statement which came from the revenue office quoted in the Pattaya Post I think saying that foreign pensions will not be subject to tax.

@Stephan **********

yes that's true but my point is this doesn't necessarily mean it's scrutinized by someone sitting at the desk at the revenue department. My friend who runs the IT department for a big European Bank told me that there is such a vast volume of information that goes to the revenue department which just sits on a computer somewhere. To have the manpower to individually scrutinize all of these transactions is something else.

@Stephan **********

the revenue department "knowing about you" and the bank's financial IT system automatically deducting tax from an account aren't the same thing.

@Paul ********

cash? What's that?

@Jeff ******

you have a point. The last time I went to see my doctor I asked why he was wet and he told me he had just got out of a dinghy in a very rough sea. And the last time I went to a Thai clinic there were 30 Thais in front of me. How stupid do you feel now?

@Iain ********

that's 45,000 too many. The UK is already an overcrowded country and it's putting a strain on resources.

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@Jeff ******

I've crossed the channel many times but I had a passport and a ticket. I didn't throw my passport away before I climbed into the dinghy.

@Jeff ******

it leaves a route for young Romanians without families to join their local gangs in the UK. If they were so desperate to get away from some kind of threat why are so many of these immigrants who thought that the streets would be paved with gold are now wanting to go back home?

@Tim ********

woke (as it applies now for the intolerant liberal left)

Woke = cancel culture, censorship, control of the population, inclusiveness which actually means you are included unless you disagree with me for which you will be excluded, the constant need to be offended, intolerance of free speech, etc etc.

That is the reality of what wokeness means today. In former times it would have meant equality within the context of social democratic ideology. Have you not been observing what has been going on in the last few years? And I didn't get that from The Daily Mail 😄

@Tim ********

now you are just being naive together with your knee-jerk reaction of using the racism card which seems to be applied to everything as far as the woke left are concerned. Furthermore you have absolutely no idea what my sources are. I don't take much notice of assumptions and you are making many.