Sunderland

I like Thais, but many of them won't give up on masks until they are told to. They really have no idea of how the world has moved on. I recently visited Shanghai and was pleasantly surprised that most people there have ditched their masks outside the airport and some restaurant staff. It was particularly noticeable that young people don't wear masks much at all. Very different from Bangkok and most schools here. The worst place I have visited recently where it was mandatory to wear a mask to go inside the Chinese visa processing centre. Then you try to navigate a conversation with the (Thai) officer though. a thick pan of glass while both you and the officer wear masks. At this stage it is pure theatre and all logic and critical thinking has gone out of the window.

The new coalition is a bigger collection of thieves, bandits, liars, criminals and bullies than even before. Complete sham. If Thailand is not moving backwards, then it's certainly doing no more than treading sludge.

This is the worst movie ever. No wonder the cinemas struggle to sell tickets.

We are moving into 'Whac-A-Mole" times. They will keep trying to destroy MFP and its reincarnations, but new ones will continue to pop up and the old git parties are running out of voters to back them. I'd estimate that less than 25% of the population genuinely support this government coalition.

If you keep kicking someone in the head, but they don't die, eventually they will retaliate, jump up and rip your head off. This is where the country is headed.

When is the variant TG.747 due to land?

Thailand? More like make themselves richer.

The Democrats will leap into bed with anyone who offers them enough money. They are not even a proper party now. They can't even organize a meeting to select a leader let alone play a role in governing the country. Anutin or Prawit will be PM by the end of the month. Failing that, Prayuth will stay on forever.

Yes, but not mentioned in Thai media because shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .... pretend it isn't happening.

Hated is accurate. It's a struggle to find many junta supporters.

This is where the population shows its lack of balls. It never gets rids of the snakes in the following elections. Blindly electing them over and over again. Nuts.

If he's arrogant what do you make of Prawit, Prayuth, Anutin and the flour dealer from Phayao with a crooked degree?

After what happened to Thanathorn before, there has got to be more to this than Pita naively or arrogantly forgetting to sell or transfer media shares. He still appears relatively unperturbed about what is happening. Is he playing a waiting game knowing that the past week's events have simply increased support for the ant-Junta parties? I would like to think there is a cunning plan behind all this, and not simply the portrayed naivety in more or less repeating what happened 4 years ago. 66% of Thai voters chose MF or PT. 12.5% chose Prayuth's UTP. 3% chose Anutin's BJT. Just over 1% chose Prawit's PPP. The idea of PT climbing back in bed with the Junta is not beyond possible, but it will be the final nail in their coffin, just like the Democrats, at the next election.

0.4 would be generous. It's more like -44.0

If this nonsense played out in the UK, the people would burn down Parliament. I am not suggesting that should happen here, but the majority of people are apathetic towards taking on the establishment.

It's called free speech. Thankfully free speech will be accepted more under the coalition that seeks to boot out the mafia.

It is commonly quoted point. It is true that masks were being worn long before Covid, but the numbers were very low indeed. Certainly far fewer than in Japan, and even in Japan the maximum was about 10-20% at its peak pre-Covid.

This is a distinct possibility which will also spell the end of Pheu Thai in the next general election. The Democrats are finished after siding with Prayuth, Prawit and the rest. The same will happen to Pheu Thai. Move Forward did well in the party list vote even in areas dominated by Pheu Thai and Bhumjaithai.

That would appear to be the only way forward. Are the people willing to accept X more years of not having their wishes followed upon. Social media tweets will not upset the establishment/army. Boots on the ground and a general strike that affects ... excuse the pun ... the businesses of "generals" or the elite are the only way to twist the knife. They'll only start listening if they're losing big money.

Greedy thugs who would lose a coventional war, but are quite happy to bully their own people.

I don't know if it is possible, but I foresee the senate members abstaining in the vote for PM meaning nobody can become PM. Therefore, allowing Prayuth to keep holding the position of temporary PM indefinitely for the next 2 years.

Even in Buriram where Bhumjaithai won lots of seats most people have voted for Pheu Thai or Move Forward in the party list vote. Confusion or something else, I don't know. None of it makes sense.

About 80-85% turnout I think.

There are multiple constituencies in Thailand - try for yourself here https://www.ectreport.com/overview - where Bhumjaithai, Palang Prachart and the United Thai Nation Party have won constituency seats, but failed miserably in the Party List vote in the same constituency. The voting in many of these areas makes no sense. Massive numbers of votes for Anutin, Prawit or Prayuth's party for the candidate, then Move Forward and/or Pheu Thai get far and away the most votes in the Party List from the same constituency. In the UK, it would be like voting for the Tory candidate, and then voting again for the party but putting your cross next to the Labour Party. It's pure nonsense.

But the people are not voting much for Bhumjaithai on the party list.