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  • UK : Bangkok embassy up for sale

    Cash-strapped Foreign Office puts Bangkok embassy up for sale
    Patrick Wintour
    Wed 31 Jan 2018



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    British Embassy Bangkok moves to a new home for the 21st century
    31 January 2018

    Our workforce in Bangkok will be moving into a state-of-the-art premises by 2019 and this can only enhance our trade links and bilateral relations in Thailand and throughout the region.

    Simon McDonald, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office said:

    In a tight fiscal environment, it is right that we take tough decisions to ensure that the UK can maintain a global presence while getting the best value for taxpayers.
    This deal will ensure that we have a modern, state of the art premises in Bangkok, confirming our long-term commitment to our relationship with Thailand, while releasing much-needed funds to modernise other embassies around the world, including in Cairo, New Delhi and Washington.
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    • #3
      to reinvest in other projects
      Yep, like giving free benefits and housing to illegal immigrants and terrorists who can't be deported because of their human rights. Then the family, cousins and grandparents all come to join them all claiming benefits.

      Housing transgender muslims ahead of ex-forces servicemen who are reduced to sleeping on the streets due to the lack of any support system for them due to budget cuts.

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        Queen Victoria statue in Bangkok lost to the nation after embassy moves to office block
        Olivia Rudgard
        31 January 2018


        "It is lost to the British and I don't think it should be reduced to some kind of totem pole. It doesn't seem right."
        Credit: Lileephoto /Shutterstock

        A "lucky" statue of Queen Victoria will be lost to the nation when the historic embassy in Bangkokdiplomats' concerns that the loss of a series of high-profile buildings is undermining their ability to influence foreign governments.


        It is believed by Bangkok residents to give good luck and is often visited by locals who ask it for blessings such as fertility, success in exams or a good marriage.
        Credit: Shutterstock

        A Foreign Office spokesman said that the statue was beloved to local people and the buyers had agreed to preserve it and make sure it was accessible to those wishing to visit it.

        He also admitted that space considerations had played a part.

        "The new building is just an office block so it wouldn't be appropriate there. You've pretty much got pavement and then office. And we're sharing it with various other tenants because it's a big tower block," he said.

        Retired diplomat Derek Tonkin, who was ambassador to Thailand from 1986-1989, said a "British environment" would be more appropriate for the statue.

        "I don't like the idea of just leaving Queen Victoria," he said. "It is lost to the British and I don't think it should be reduced to some kind of totem pole. It doesn't seem right."

        The statue has had an eventful history, having survived the invasion of the Japanese during the Second World War, when the occupiers boarded it up, but left peepholes to avoid leaving Her Majesty in the dark.

        Installed in 1903 and originally located at the front entrance to the British consulate, it was moved to the new premises in 1922, which at the time was in a relatively rural and remote area, though it is now part of the central business district.

        The ambassador's residence, which dates from the 1920s, is to be demolished and the site redeveloped, the Foreign Office said.

        telegraph.co.uk
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        • #5
          They should have done a deal. Sell the land etc but get guaranteed embassy space for perpetuity in the new towe/condo block. Same as Canada did in Tokyo.

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          • #6
            Next on the chopping block will be the USA embassy, as the phony USD is nearing extinction...

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            • #7
              If they believe a statue of Queen Victoria brings you good luck, well good luck.

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