The bottom line of this perhaps rather long narrative, is not, as I initially started out as a perhaps green, green badge cab driver, who did not move to the valley of Diesel “Ilford” with the obligatory new cab, wife, mortgage and two kids.

No one more surprised than I at the realisation of what has materialised, a first hand description humiliation and deprivation of the British working class from the 1930's.

This erosion brought about entirely by deliberate policy of successive governments.. and the ten draconian years of Tony Blair who deliberately, for whatever reason, encouraged the influx of irrepresible waves of the World's disenchanted onto these shores, by doing so, creating a powerful, intimidating, devisive weapon against the indigenous labouring masses and a hard core of … crime, poverty and unemployment… the triple iron fist of all governments,plus Enron, 9/11, Afghan conflict over oil, Kosovo all emphatically used by Blair; any outcry was by "politically incorrect racists" as Dr David Kelly was to find to the cost of his life.

The differential between rich and poor, is greater now, than during the Middle Ages.

Pattaya - rise and decline

My "Friends" having blown out Thailand, the situation and attitudes there becoming identical with those here. Pattaya City Council having Bulldozed the beach, its wonderful array of huge straw huts, its hundreds of people offering goods and services ..bulldozed a atmosphere.

Close one eye now and you could be in Bournemouth or the Costa del Sol.. They are trying to make it "respectable" having built the City on the backs of their young ladies and tired old men from distant Countries, all in forty years… out of nothing, a couple of small huts, a few girls, the most magnificent sweeping Bay and deserted, untouched shore line. Clear, softly rolling surf so far as the eye could see.

One gentle, languid day, four American servicemen arrived, casual, in a jeep, liked the look of Paradise. Pattaya was born..

Once the American Fleet started to use the anchorage.. girls being bussed in by the thousand, no stopping.

Pattaya now, little more than a concrete, traffic choked "Southend on Sea" a satellite of Bangkok, not the incredibly exciting cowboy town it had been in its heyday.

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