MaiChai

Advice from a Western girl living in Thailand...

Follow your instincts. If you think things aren't adding up then that's probably because they're not. Judging from what you have said so far... I would say get rid.

And the big giant cheques, who are these people, Happy Gilmore?
How embarrasing for both the victims and the government.
And why is the victim waiing him? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Had Thaksin stayed in Thailand and faced his charges, served what ever little time they would have given him, like the red shirts are doing now because of him, none of this would have happened. No red shirts dead from all the violence, no red shirts in jail. And Thaksin could be fighting shoulder to shoulder with his red shirts, instead of playing politics from behind the curtain like a puppet master.

RT@RichardBarrow: 8:06pm Red Shirt leaders on stage holding candles http://t.co/rzutvMtu

JonnyF, on 2012-05-16 12:28:45, said:

That's really not the best way to go- better to only take Lad Phrao until you reach the Ram Intra tollway (Padist Manu Tham Road), take a left as there's usually little to no traffic and NO traffic lights on the Padist Manu Tham road that parallels the tollway all the way to the first traffic light which is the junction with Pracha Uthit where you take a right, then left at the first light, right at the T-junction and then follow Thanon Thiam Ruam Mit around to the Thailand Cultural Center.

10.8km, like this:

Another farce unfolds. Daily occurrence. Almost June and still waiting for a miracle.

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A Pheu Thai MP asking people to protest against his own government!  

I'm not saying Thai use old aircraft but the last time I flew with them they put me next to the tail gunner.

I live in Lak-si, and have seen and experienced this Porsche asshol_e up by backside many a time, as I also know the reg plate, which is incidentally 911. He drives, drove now - past tense, like a maniac and I did say to my wife only 2 weeks ago he'll kill or get killed. Seems he's achieved both. I have no sympathy at all for the rich arrogant <Snip!>, and am I glad I nearly ran him off the road last week when he tried to cut me up, but I also accelerated like hell in sports mode after he was flashing and flashing, I was also speeding at 140 in heavy traffic, and he ended up with nowhere to go when he tried to cut off to the third lane. He came back up my ass, flashing again, and I slammed my brakes on - ready to hit the bastar... d.

If you can't drive with respect, no matter whether you have a Porsche, a Ferrari or a Lada, then up yours. He got what he deserved! Death!

My words were correct, and he got, in sincerity, what he deserved, as he could and probably has killed before, but got off scott free for a small buy out!

I AM saddened that he took others with him...... that is not deserved. Putting a Thai into a Porsche is like putting a 4 year old into the cockpit to land a 747!

-mel.

I am no economic expert but it seems putting this man as head of BOT will enable their coffers to be opened up for plunder. BOT has already been forced to take on a big debt from the financial crisis of 1997 but how many have been prosecuted & sentenced for that debacle including those who had inside knowledge of the devaluation.

As another poster said just increase the tax base. I do not remember the numbers but it is a shockingly low percentage of the population who actually pay tax. There are quite a number of "poor" people running street stalls who are actually making a very good living, much more than the tax free threshold.

Virabongsa has never accomplished anything in his life, certainly not on the scale he is talking about here. Dude is just talking himself up for his big appointment as the chairman of Bank of Thailand where he will finally be able to lay his hands on a huge pile of money generated by his enemies, people who always did opposite to what he proposed.

Now it's time for the payback, he can't help himself drooling over how he would spend their hard earned money.

All his ideas are about as realistic as giving out a million tablets to the students in two weeks time, he is just a village bastard who wants to have a go at Excalibur.

Populist promises have almost always been the springboard for dictatorships. Part of the problem is the PTP policies are only window-dressing & nobody actually knows what their long-term agenda and policies are.
They are the living emodiment of the English "jam tomorrow" folk-saying ; "well kids, you know its just dry bread today but there'll be jam tomorrow". This is also the type of 'faith in the future' message has been used by many dictators through the centuries. Stick with us, even though your lives are going down the drain, we promise the future will be great. everything will be okay when Thaksin gets back, or maybe in the time of  his son's rule, or  his grandson, great-grandson.
PTP run the country on a skeleton-crew basis, ticking only the mandatory boxes and avoiding everything else. IMO their energies are devoted behind the scenes to installing a permanent familial oligarchy.
I would guess the next step will be to give all poor people a free colour TV, & by coincidence  people will be  watching red-government propaganda on the free TVs along with brain-meltingly bad soap operas and game shows. That wouldn't be so bad if the Govt actually made people's lives better (as promised).
The mistakes made pre-flood & post-flood which were shockingly inept, were brushed aside by the regime as unimportant, but the flood exposed the government-level complete lack of robust quick-thinking which are the trademarks of competent leadership. It also raised the question of what they consider important. Even the request to have a state of emergency during the worst floods for over 50 years, was rebuffed by Yingluck along partisan and control-freak lines.
All the meaningful pre-election promises by PTP  have failed to appear even in start-up phase, except for a few stragglers that emerged blinking into the light & feeling all alone.
People in the opposition are very concerned that the country they love is being hijacked, and in the worst case scenario the groundwork for a dynastic oligarchy is being laid-out. The feeling among many international observers is that the worst is yet to come & Thai peoples future is one of being industrially-fleeced & exploited & deceived.

Yeah, fantastic solution. Just let the rich buy their way out gaol.

"I can't help people who don't want to reconcile," he said

i wonder if he has ever stopped to consider whether or not people actually want or need  his help?? Perhaps the people of Thailand have the skills and wisdom to actually help themselves and his constant media circus is doing more harm than good.

Without being cynical, as I know there are a lot of genuine government supporters here. I can't help but feel that

'I can't pay people who don't want to reconcile' he said would be a better articulation of his thoughts

DP25, on 2012-04-12 23:01:15, said:

Yes they won a parliamentary majority.
Put that in your pie and smoke it!