Expats, count your blessings
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Three cheers for Thai Immigration! I never thought I would say that, but I'm from Britain, which has just published the official migration statistics for last year. The number of immigrants was 641,000, continuing the trend of over half a million a year o
Needless to say, this is wreaking social havoc in the towns and cities and destroying British culture. And, despite being the main issue on which the last election was fought, nothing is being done about it due to the incompetence of the government and the maliciousness of the EU.
Of the 323,000 citizens who left the UK last year, most were indigenous British. There’s no need to wonder why.
So when we whinge about Thai Immigration, with its discretionary rules, the “extra” fees, the 90-day reporting, the near impossibility of getting a residence permit or nationality, etc, let us be thankful that Thailand has an authoritarian government that is not afraid to tackle the big issues and is determined to defend the country from invaders.
Just imagine what Thailand would be like with 8 million Nation letter-writers like me.
Nigel Pike
