Melyn

Yingluck was presented prior to the general election as PTs candidate for the post. I would suggest that anyone who voted PT in that election did so in the knowledge that if the party they favoured ended up forming a government then she would be the Prime Minister. You may not like her or her politics or her party, you may believe that she is the puppet of her brother, but you cannot say that she did not win the election. Nor, I suggest, can you claim that she did not win a mandate.

She was elected in accordance with the rules of the Thai electoral system, just as so many on this forum have argued, was her predecessor!

In the same way as voting for free money

Double post.

As Wales so rightly demonstrated on Saturday, if you want to play games with the big boys, expect some bruises.

Of course if you spend way more than you collect and squander hundreds of billions on the rice nonsense then your debts will increase.

Overall position = much higher debt.

Yuri Geller would have had problems bending Tarit further

I've said it previously, there are more involved in PTP than just Thaksin, much as it pains you guys........amnesty dragging out a bit is it?.......well as nobody really takes any notice of the Democrats whining so perhaps there are other influences at play.......but that would have the "it's all about Thaksin" crew choking on their beer.....so no way that idea could fly on Tvisa

Indeed. They have the incredible Chalerm, the inimitable Plodprasop and a motley collection of neerdogoods.

You would have to say that the PTP star player at present is the repugnant Tarit.

I wonder how Tarit and his team are getting on with the rice scam. The Dems did all the hard work.

I can't, for the life of me, understand why the entire planet doesn't bow to the inevitable and appoint Thailand as the ruler of everything.

Unable, as it is, to provide enough wattage to it's own people, the vast, vast majority of whom use it for no more than fridge, bulb and TV. Delusions of grandeur.

There's only one poll that counts.

It can be found I'm many bars in the metropolis.

There are very few reasons why the poacher would seek protection for the game.

They all begin with "m" and rhyme with honey

Chalerm has lost so much face recently it's a wonder there's anything left on his cranium.

It certainly wouldn't prevent his overactive lower mandible from flapping around uncontrollably

Waterworld Part XXIII

The Crab and the Cat

So the BIB will take care of security at the U.S Consulate. I sure hope the consulate general keeps a close eye on his wallet.

It's Chinese New Year - no offence in liberating a few bucks from non-Thais

I like the first paragraph reference to simple mathematics. Another simple calculation would be that Thaksin only has 730 days left to serve out his sentence.

The courts should impose a 10% interest rate on his sentence - compounded and back-dated.

"is there any hope the plan will be free of corruption"?

To keep it short NO!

Is there any Hopewell?

It's mud slinging for sure - but a smokescreen as usual with the PTP

What's the cover up here? Blame the Dems when your own side knows it cannot win.

It's like the DSI charges agains Abhisit and Suthep - PTP know they will be harmful to the Dems in the short term but they also know they will be kicked out of court so the Reds can't blame the PTP

It's like the charges at the ICC - PTP makes a fanfare to appease the Reds in a case that will never be supported.

Multi-layered duplicity

Interesting that this coincides with the opening of the first Palestinian embassy in BKK

Then again, when Chalerm gets one of his "sniffs" he normally barks up the wrong distilliary. I remember one occasion where he advised the nation that there were no terrorists in Thailand only to find a bunch of (albeit operationally useless) Iranians blowing themselves limb from limb

What an absolute disgrace.

Excused by another absolute disgrace.

Dear oh dear oh dear

Why is Tarit (left in OP photo) appearing at a press conference with Pongsapat (right)?

Why did Tarit appear at a press conference earlier on this issue with Pheu Thai Party Spokesman Prompong?

Is he not supposed to be independent and non-aligned?

I'm sure Suthep and Abhisit will get their photo opportunity later. Isn't that the normal arrangement for a press conference? It's not as if Pongsapat is guilty - he's proved that, just more muckraking by the dems before the election.

Oh you wouldn't be trying to deflect attention from the fact that he is innocent would you, surely not.

I'm just trying to understand how a supposedly independent, non-partisan, and objective law enforcement officer is doing at a press conferences appearing with a person being investigated (Pongsapat) and on top of that appearing with someone not even not directly involved with a police investigation, in the form of a political party spokesman.

btw, it's not normal protocol and additionally, at this point, no one has "proven" their innocence.

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I ask is it any different than the army C in C telling the nation to vote for the Dems(good people) the day before the last election

We're talking law and order, the incredibly dubious Tarit and the the PTP.

Please don't derail the thread with your biased nonsense

I thought that was only the Welsh!

-mel.

Its a patented tenderization process for export produce across Offa's Dyke

70% of Thailand is not employed in agriculture

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 13.3%

industry: 34%

services: 52.7% (2011 est.)

Take a ride two hours South from Pattaya to Rayong and see the real Thailand.

<deleted>, Whats does percentage of GDP have to with dodgy unemployment figures? As a self professed economics guru you dont seem to know much.

48.5% of the Thai labour force is employed in the agricultural sector.

On top of the 1.4% unemployment rate you should add that 20% of all eligible males and 35% of all eligible females do not participate in the Thai work force.

1. Please quote where I professed to be an economics guru or take it back. 2. I wrote, "70% of Thailand is not employed in agriculture and that is correct. 3. I think I posted somewhere that around 40% of the Thai work force is employed in agriculture. It is going down and I would not be surprised 2013 it is below 40%.

If 48% of the labour force is employed in the agriculture sector then stating that 70% is not employed in that sane sector is a Venn disaster