Thread: Would 7000 Thais help you to stay?

Originally Posted by hirondelle

there are 400,000 muslim fundamentalists in the shetlands? gosh how things change when you live abroad

maybe they are the sheep.

opposed to being slaughtered in a non-halal way.

"Would 7000 Thai's help you to stay?"

yeah if you gave them enough fockin money, otherwise would they bollocks

I did not know bollocks could be a verb. You live and learn.

Originally Posted by thaigirly

i saw this on tv a few weeks ago. i'm pleased that someone is making a stand. i have a good thai friend who has lived in the uk for 14 years and has had indefinite leave to remain since 1998. 4 years ago she was arrested for assisting to run a brothel (her involvement was taking a couple of the girls to the doctor, as she spoke better english than them). she pleaded guilty and got a brief term of imprisonment. no recommendation for deportation was made. she left prison, resumed working, paying tax, being a wife and mother and so on.

Originally Posted by thaigirly

a couple of months ago, when the effluent came into contact with the ventilation system at the home office, she was suddenly arrested at home in front of her kids at 7am and served deportation papers. she eventually got bail, despite some seriously underhand tactics by the immigration department (telling the tribunal that her whereabouts were unknown so no bail hearing could take place, moving the tribunal 200 miles north and with 12 hours notice). she got bail, the ind got all the conditions wrong which resulted in her (briefly) being wanted by the police for breach of bail (sorted out without a further arrest). she opted to go back to los, bought flight tickets for her and her children (husband will spend half the time in uk, and half in los) and arranged for ind to return her passport.

ind turned up at home and said "we've lost your passport. there you go. that's it." she goes to the airport for her flight, having had to sort out her documentation with the thai embassy. on arrival, ind tell her she is being deported, having previously agreed to a voluntary departure, meaning that they get the figures for their stats but she paid for the flights.

political desperation by a failing government in the death throes, and a department 'not fit for purpose', according to its own minister. disgraceful.

A Thai calling the UK government disgraceful. What a fecking joke...

Originally Posted by Smeg

A Thai calling the UK government disgraceful. What a fecking joke...

No, it's an opinion based on fact.

Paying some attention first to their own pathetic excuse for a democracy is advised.

Thailand s not a democracy, neither is the UK.
They are pretty similar - both constitutional monarchies.

^ You write that in the style of being a fact rather than your opinion

Some knowledge for you:

In representative democracies that are constitutional monarchies, like the United Kingdom, the monarch may be regarded as the head of state but the prime minister, whose power derives directly or indirectly from elections, is head of government.
Although current constitutional monarchies are mostly representative democracies, this has not always historically been the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy

Thanks for affirming the fact I've stated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

"...there has been controversy over Wikipedia's reliability and accuracy, with the site receiving criticism for its susceptibility to vandalism, uneven quality and inconsistency, systemic bias, and preference for consensus or popularity over credentials."

hmmm, must remember to use this as a source material in the future

The quality is inconsistent, which is to be expected in a project like wikipedia. You need to use your own judgement to assess how useful a particular piece is.

More often than not, I found it to be very useful for getting an overview of a subject, with further links.

Originally Posted by Smeg

A Thai calling the UK government disgraceful. What a fecking joke...

i think you may have misunderstood on two grounds: firstly, it was not her, but I, who called the uk government disgraceful; secondly, having been born, raised, educated, lived and worked in london until i was fortunate to travel to various places in the world in my mid-twenties, and still a uk taxpayer, i think i'm just as entitled to my view as is an ex-pat who badmouths his hosts and harks back to the wonderful old country he left behind.