SABloke

5 hours ago, webfact said:

“Make the comparison. Look how many legislations they made in the past five years. It’s more than 500. Before that, how many did they do? It’s unparalleled.”

Of course it is you dunce! It's easy to pass legislation when you only need one reading and everyone votes in favour...every...single....time. ???? (Yes, I know, there were always one or two abstentions, and three or four "no" votes to make it seem legit, but you get my point) 

The financial burden comes with the cost of having to buy new uniforms due to the fact that the students' names need to be embroidered onto them so no hand-me-downs or 2nd hand sales. I reckon rather than scrapping uniforms, scrapping the name requirement would make more sense.

What the hell is the head of the army doing sitting on the national lottery board?

Well, do the moral thing: You told your supporters you won't join the PTP/FFP coalition, so don't. You also told your supporters you don't support the Junta remaining in charge, so don't join its coalition either. Be independent opposition. Who knows, you might even gain an ounce of DEMOCRATIC credibility.

I wonder what the delay is with releasing the names? Maybe they keep crunching the numbers but getting the wrong result? ????

50 minutes ago, Grossman said:

Can someone enlighten my silly ol' brain, as I must have missed something vital here.. But what part of the constitution exactly stipulates this "95%"? I recall 9th of May being an absolute deadline for FINAL results

You're absolutely right. The election must be finalised by the 9th, which is why there will be voting taking place on the 26th. I don't understand what's so confusing. It all makes perfect sense. ????

So let's be "clear" about this:

• The constituency MP's will be announced on the 7th of May.
• The court will decide if the party-list calculation method is legal and announce its findings on the 8th.
• The party list MP's will be announced on the 8th. (Regardless of whether the calculation is legal or not, because they legally have to finish the election within the 150 day time frame.
• More voting will take place on the 26th of May - just a tad after the 150 days.

Clear as mud ????

Ah, dear old bizarre Thailand...what can we say? A few months ago it was reported that Thai agencies were trying to prevent foreigners from getting weed patents because it "could lead to monopolies". Now we have the "Thai Tobacco Monopoly" applying for permission to get involved. ????

48 minutes ago, Chang_paarp said:

Start with getting the police to enforce the laws all year round, not just at songkran. Enforce the existing laws rigorously for all and the death toll will drop. 

They enforce laws during Songkran?

39 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The EC also insisted that there is only one formula for calculating the final number of House seats won by political parties,

Yet last week they were saying they have yet to decide which formula to use. ???? So were they lying last week or this week? Or is everything they say false?

Just now, Cadbury said:

All these figures prove is that the Phalang Pracharat spent the most money of all the parties in vote buying.

Not really, it proves that even with contesting in 350 constituencies, they were only able to get slightly more votes than PT, who contested only 250 seats. Imagine if they hadn't (illegally) disolved TRC...

Just now, sjaak327 said:

At the end of the day, the popular vote (even assuming the counting went honest, apparently some constituencies had more counted ballots then it had registered voters) is meaningless. It is the number of seats in the lower house that counts. So the claim is incorrect. 

Also, if they want to claim that popular votes supercedes lower house seats, then the deemocratic alliance kicks their asses. Future foward came third in the popular vote and combined with the smaller parties the coalition has more votes than the Prayuth coaltion has. So actually they do have more lower house seats and more votes in total, so the democratic alliance led by PT has every right to form a government.

8 minutes ago, jesimps said:

I challenge anyone to find me one single mug who took a bribe and voted for the party that paid him. Unless it was the one he intended voting for anyway. The beauty of secret balots.

If the rumors are true that people had to provide ID when taking bribe money, I can believe that quite a few would have for fear of retribution.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Unofficial results of Thailand's first election since a 2014 coup will be announced at 2 p.m. local time (0700 GMT) on Monday.

Well, it's 4pm now and still no announcement from the EC. They managed to countr 94% of the votes in 6 hours. But since 8.30am this morning haven't been able to count the last 6%???

Turnout 65% but some constituencies had almost double the amount of votes counted compared to people registered and allowed to vote.???? Nothing to see here...move along. 

9 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

That was not a normal application since you were wanting to use income from working to apply for the extension that has different requirements from what most people do.

The IO that gave me the list knew what I was applying for and I went back with what she requested including all the tax receipts, payment slips, company letter etc. Whatever method I used is irrelevant - They gave me a list of requirements that I duly completed and then when I returned they suddenly added more things. My point about them not knowing their own regulations still stands.