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Poo flies ?!

aka      "s_hit hits the fan"

Whether they stay or go is somewhat beside the point. It is the manner in which it has been done. Instead of working out a solution there was an announcement made in haste.

Also if Meghan wants to throw a spanner in the works she should at least have the manners to face everyone in person. Her behaviour would seem to suggest she is a bad mannered coward.

So I presume every single golf course in Thailand will be banned from using water ??

Fair enough if they want to leave and live a private life. However it looks as though they want to keep the expensive security detail paid for by the British taxpayer, the expensive just renovated house in Windsor etc. Looking as though they want the best of both worlds, having ones cake etc...

I had a bet on with my Canadian friend predicting this would fall apart. It has I admit been astoundingly fast and ironically they might end up in Canada. She now owes me lunch!

This seems to be on a totally unprecedented scale. Families I know whose grandparents grew up in the bush are saying they have never seen anything on this level. The scale and devastation are really unprecedented. Absolutely tragic.

I would imagine a large number that possibly voted for the government were "fence sitters" , who voted for some sort of status quo rather than turmoil in the view that after the election the economy would improve. It is now rather obvious that the economy did not improve and those fence sitters are probably having second thoughts.

It really is rock and a hard place. If there are physical protests, then I predict some sort of possibly engineered escalation as an an excuse to get Apirat "in". If there is no viable opposition then things will just go more drastically downhill and untenable with various scenarios panning out which could involve long time frames and no optimistic outcomes. The solution to this problem is really tricky.

9 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

We also might consider that far too many of these vendors are underemployed. Or worse it's a second job just to stay afloat (sound familiar westerners?).

 

I see many young people that look intelligent, urban, middle class that are on the streets fobbing knick knacks and rubbish for pittances. It's not as bad as after 97 but it's not healthy.

 

Recently read BKK post article 100s thousands of grads from proper universities without jobs. This will only grow given the direction of technology and the economy. It really is a neo fuedal society.

 

There won't be any tourists from Tianjin. The province just went bankrupt. No joke. Chinese govt will not prop up SOEs.

 

The entire world is in quite a precarious state. Thailand would be well advised to grease all the wheels. When the shtf all and I mean all tourism will screech to a halt. Then again, all Thailand has left anyway are the Chinese.

 

Let them eat cake.

Probably one of the reasons the govt is so keen to legalise GRAB taxis. It seems to be the last resort for many Thai graduates.

On the weekends the Night Bazaar area is doubly dead because of the weekend markets and the Chinese who tend to migrate towards Nimman area.

Most of the Night Bazaar area seems to have been bought or leased out by the Beer Chang Group. Not quite sure what the plan is behind that. Maybe there is actually no plan at all!

They seem quite happy to sit around while the "original Night Bazaar building " sits at least 80 % vacant. I was told that particular building is on a long lease to Chang. Why lease a building that is mostly empty??

Then of course there is the fact that tourism is way down. It is not just up and down , it is totally down. If next year turns out to to be worse or the same as this year, it is really going to be a problem!