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and a certain K. Chalerm is sitting in the wings confident they wlil HAVE TO invite him back to the inner circle.

It's a sad day when a monk who has taken all sorts of vows can't accept generous gifts from devotees who are assured of a better life in the hereafter.

Must be expensive in the hereafter are they only accepting quality immigrants?

I know where I'll end up so I'm getting mearured for my heat resistant suit

Fear not the Defence Minister will pour oil ( expensive and imported from Paris ) on all troubled waters just don't expect her to turn up at any of the necessary meetings.

Where I come from going to prison for any offence against a child is hazardous to health. Hope it's the same here, if he ever goes inside that is as dad's influence and money may be of valuable assistance.

Is this not a common aspect of Thai culture with subordinates showing deference, sometime excessively, to senior people.

i have deliberately avoided using the word " superior ' because I detest it and how it's used in respect of people, I am superior to no one and no one is superior to me.

Let's hope the baby recovers and gets justice.

If the girl is 15 now and the baby is 2 months old she must have been no more than 14 when she married her first husband. I don't know much about this but is that legal?

No but it does'nt matter much here. Doesn't say much about her parents does it. ?

Please Yingluck, if you have any balls at all, do not give this oxygen thief the satisfaction of resigning, sack him from the party immediately. Display some Leadership. This guy would have lasted nano seconds if he did this in the UK or the States.

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That's about as well as anyone could have said it!

Spot On. They must have known that demotion would cause the same reaction so why give him any room to maneouvre ? He's still a minister and will address the media as such and we know he will take every opportunity to speak on any subject and he does so as a member of the cabinet.

If he continues to embarrass it would be easier to write him off as a malcontent angry at not getting his way rather than having to deal with him as a minister.

Thinking back many a long year to holidays with a wife and young daughter were we quality tourists ? The day's activities revolved around my daughter so no boring bus trips, visits to ruins and so on. the evening ended with her bedtime and hopes of a decent movie on TV or in-house movie channel, no nights on the town or even body swerving the wife for a couple of hours.

We were quiet, respectable tourists, maybe even quality but a couple of young lads with money to spend and all the intention of doing so contributed more to an economy than we ever did.

TAT talks crap and their figures are even worse.

Oh yes, as if they would say anything else. Forget the public insincerity as what counts is the talk behind the scenes, on the golf courses and well away from anyone seen as " one of them ".

Politics as usual. Yingluck said the scheme was the bees knees and enriching farmers' lives but 2 days later it had to be " sustainable " so the pledge was being cut to B12,000. The farmers and some MPs got uppity so the issue it went into " consideration ", then came the uproar over the cabinet re-shuffle and the North East got upset.

Nothing can be done about the cabinet for a while but as if by magic the rice pledge will be unchanged for a few months at least.

It portrays a government in total control with foresight and sensible forward planning not one simply reeling from crisis to crisis!

His mission couldn't have been that urgent, why else would he have hijacked a bus in Bkk ?

Now if he had only been theTtransport Minister his backup vehicle would have only been a phone call away.

A wise move by KY not to interfere in military matters considering what happened when her brother tried that.

Do you think she will be able to resist getting involved with the annual re-shuffle, as directed from Dubai of course ?

I'm sure they would love to have " their people " in position. Remember how Mr. T promoted a relative up 17 places in the seniority list and had him ready to become Supreme Commander and he did the same with another relative in the police.

"The government and the army have fully performed their duties in the past two years, the premier said"

The army were certainly magnificent during the floods. Not sure what PTP were doing - oh yes, illegally issuing a passport and getting a large amount of emergency cash.

Something to look forward to then, the PM presenting all the acheivments of the PTP government whilst fully performing their duties over the last two years.

5th cabinet reshuffle means 6 cabinets in 2 years. Are they trying to get into the Guiness Book of Records too?

She has raised delegation to an art form, is regularly missing from house sessions and now doesn't have Chalerm to speak for her and she chairs committees that she never attends.

What's next ?

BBC World News is covering the Yingluck story as a headline. It's pointed out that she's the first woman to become defence minister and will give her " control over the military that ousted her brother. "

It was also pointed out that the army is due a major re-shuffle in October but nothing more was said.

For those of us here the latter aspect means will she interefere and put or try to put loyalists in the top jobs etc ?

No surer way to anger the military than interfering in the old boys club of promotions and postings.

Deja vu?

That's quite a point. Isn't there something about failing to learn from history's mistakes and being doomed to repeat them.

Paveena Hongsakul, a women's and children's rights advocate, is the new Minister of Social Development and Human Security.Thailand has a serious problem with human trafficking and domestic violence. Now there is a minister that is considered to be one of the strongest advocates in the country and that has the confidence of the organizations both domestic and international that are involved.

Was wondering Gerry if you could tell me where this paragon of womans and childrens rights was on the issue of the 10yr old girl that recently gave birth or the little girl who was held as a slave and tortured not so long ago.

Never saw anything in the news from her then.

She's a self serving politician so pick the high profile issues and look good, don't touch anything not in the news or which might backfire.

I used to walk around the floor my office was on always carrying a file, everyone thought I was working.

So now we all know you're a skiver.

Please find yourself a place in the remedial class, I wrote " used to " which is past tense and now I am retired.

Please repeat after me " was a skiver ".

Will the most serious charge be being here illegally not using a .38 knife ?

Have they arrived at the " Final Solution " and we will see Einsatzgruppen travelling throughout Thailand rooting out all who hold any official position ?

Chalerm is too mad, angry, not nice, mean, egotistic, inconsiderate, rude, obnoxious, conceded, too much of a bully, threatening, to be in office.

He's dangerous in or out of office which opens the field to speculative questions on best to shut him up.

I wonder what he will say tomorrow as Yingluck is to be leading the government in the usual announcement that they will be fighting corruption. Same old story though, long on talk and short on action.

Paveena Hongsakul, a women's and children's rights advocate, is the new Minister of Social Development and Human Security.Thailand has a serious problem with human trafficking and domestic violence. Now there is a minister that is considered to be one of the strongest advocates in the country and that has the confidence of the organizations both domestic and international that are involved.

Was wondering Gerry if you could tell me where this paragon of womans and childrens rights was on the issue of the 10yr old girl that recently gave birth or the little girl who was held as a slave and tortured not so long ago.

Never saw anything in the news from her then.

She's a self serving politician so pick the high profile issues and look good, don't touch anything not in the news or which might backfire.

I used to walk around the floor my office was on always carrying a file, everyone thought I was working.

Is he a civil servant rather than a politician ? It's a rhetorical question but why were people jumping the gun and signing contracts that perhaps they had no real authority to do ?