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The interesting thing is that the establishment is not taking fright at a leftist party that wants to nationalise everything. They are scared of a liberal reformist party that wants to eliminate inefficiencies in the capitalist system that makes Thailand uncompetitive and unable to achieve its long run economic growth potential. They actually want to give Thailand's capitalism a tune up, not get rid of it. That would of course involve decentralisation to remove bloated Bangkok based bureaucracies, tackling monopolistic businesses that often use state concessions to supply inferior goods and services to Thai consumers at inflated prices.

The truth is that Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia are extremely angry about the caretaker government's appeasement of the Burmese junta after it failed to implement even a scrap of the plan agreed with ASEAN. Only the dictatorial members Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are pleased with it.

Absolutely. Going into a coalition with Thaksin calling the shots and manipulating things would be the kiss of death for MFP. They would not get much of anything done from their reform agenda and would be tainted by PT and Shinawatra family corruption scandals, as well as continuing prosecutions of political activists as a way for Thaksin to demonstrate his loyalty to the people who booted him and his sister out of power. Let Thaksin do a coalition with the uncle parties and BJP and enjoy Anutin fighting to get the public health ministry in a rearguard action to save cannabis. Without BJP they would have a wafer thin majority that could collapse at any moment just before a budget bill or a no confidence debate. If there is no coup the senate will have no vote at the next election and MFP or its successor can come back stronger, if not tainted by association with a corrupt PT administration.

Do you know the exact method of selecting the next senate? Not in the constitution but must in the organic laws somewhere. About 90% of current incumbents were directly appointed by the junta which no longer exists. It's definitely by selection not election but not sure who gets to select. Also they the next senate has no power to vote for the PM.

Yes, it was pathetic that 81% of the scoundrels didn't actually vote at all after sponging off the taxpayer for 4 years. One of them resigned the day before reducing the number of votes needed by one as their are now only 749 MPs and senators.

After election Jonathan Head of the BBC asked Pita about the problem of military reform policies apparently not be popular with the military. Pita replied that MFP was extremely popular with army as evidenced by their excellent showing in the election in constituencies with large army bases. That is basically the problem - a minority of corrupt money grubbers intent on using any dirty tricks that come to hand to continue to lord it over the majority.

I think German murderers would know this and would go for quality murder accessories but not sure about the Pakistani villain.

One of the few positive effects of the 2014 coup was Gen Anuphong being installed as interior minister and apparently reading the riot act to bureaucrats for deliberately stonewalling citizenship and PR applications in the hope of getting bribes. But it seems like he gave up the unequal struggle a couple of years ago and the jungle has been growing back. Anuphong got the wait for MOI interview down to about a year during the junta government but it has been creeping back towards the three years or so it was averaging before the coup when 5 years from application to ID card was considered good. Who knows what the new government might bring?

So many voters choose PT for the constituency and MFP for the party list. If another election is forced soon, they might abandon PT and give both votes to MFP.

Effigies of Prayut, Prawit, Thaksin. Who are the other 5 relics?

Thaiger that makes out that this is all new legislation which it is not. The list of 40 reserved occupations was a Royal Decree from the early 70s that remains totally unchanged. The exemptions are from various MOUs with neighbouring countries and an agreement with ASEAN.

This Senate's term is up in May 2024 and with it goes the Senate's power to vote for the PM.

Wan Mohammed Noor was interior minister at the time of Thaksin's war on drugs. Even as a southern Malay Muslim himself he failed to speak out about the Tak Bai and Krusae Mosque murders by the Thaksin regime of which he was a part. He's just in it for the money and is a former Thaksin man. No good for MFP can come from the appointment of this politician for hire.

Can they find out your real name and other details, if you review under an assumed name and country in Tripadvisor? That's where I have put my honest negative reviews on Thai hotels for years and never had any comeback. It sucks to feel intimidated into silence rather warning other travellers about things they need to know and maybe even inspiring the hotel management to fix problems.

Most of these were international flights from the days before Swampy.

It is a temple school. Free education for the poorest of the poor Buddhists. It is assumed the parents have no rights. The teacher probably transferred to another temple school where the parents and children also have no rights and have this dirtbag imposed on them.

This evil woman hit a small child so hard that she bruised his back and they transfer her to "help out" another school district where the parents there obviously don't want her and where she is free to abuse other children. What disgusting behaviour! She should be suspended immediately and, if found guilty, she should be fired and have her teacher's licence revoked for life in addition to criminal penalties for assault of a minor.

If you keep vicious dogs of that type, you need to keep a loaded .45 ACP by your bed and with you at all times and hope you can get to it to blow their heads off before they can incapacitate you. Better still don't keep such revolting animals.

The blood must be in the section of the walkway that collapsed with the remains of the poor woman's leg.

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I guess that the section of the walkway she was standing on suddenly collapsed as she was coming to the end of it, causing her leg to fall down a hole and be trapped by the intact walkway section behind it before she could haul it out. There is a clip in the Mail article showing several sections of an escalator collapsing and swallowing up a man completely in Turkey.

My heart goes out to the victim of this heart wrenching and totally avoidable accident caused by using equipment past its sell by date and then not bothering to maintain it. From the photographs it is hard to see what happened but one assumed a section of the walkway collapsed just before the end pulling her leg down and the section behind it that did not collapse severed her leg. Some reports blame her for tripping over her suitcase but that would not sever her leg, if a piece of the walkway did not collapse under her.

"The airport director and other senior administrators went to the hospital to follow up on the victim’s condition and promised to take care of her medical expenses and compensation. The management also offered an apology for the accident." This is AOT, a powerful state enterprise. Their lawyers and connections will ensure compensation is pitiful. The apology is not good enough. The director responsible for safety should be fired without compensation. It is the only way to make Thais bother about safety. This was an aged escalator installed in 1996, possibly second hand, and left unused for a few years while the airport was empty.

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