Jeremy50

Falang no undursatan

It starts with enabling everyone to understand that it should be the case that EVERYONE IS EQUAL in front of the law.

Good luck

But some animals are more equal than others.

If have time, read Burmese Days by George Orwell and the characters will appear to make perfect sense after life in Thailand.

Yes. The best 'expat' book ever written. Funny and tragic.

Falang no undursatan

It starts with enabling everyone to understand that it should be the case that EVERYONE IS EQUAL in front of the law.

Good luck

But some animals are more equal than others.

If have time, read Burmese Days by George Orwell and the characters will appear to make perfect sense after life in Thailand.

I hope they are filming this fiasco...attempt to apprehend the PRDC...should be very entertaining...a kind of dark comedy...

These guys won't escape the long cha.larm of the law.

Meanwhile in Thailand. the hub of cultural sensitivity:

The poster reads 'Hitler is still alive'

They need to come into the 21st Century.

They haven't got to the Renaissance yet!

No, but they have mastered surrealism.

Thais, like many other people in the world should learn the first rule of personal finance.

If you ain't got the money don't buy it.

'And so it was that later,

as the miller told his tale

that her face at first just ghostly,

turned a whiter shade of pale.'

Don't kill the messenger. Read his letter.

I did. If he really cared about Thailand he'd be sending it to Suthep. He's the primary enemy Thailand needs to face right now. The rice scam is a massive mess, made worse by what's happening now, but somehow the country will get through it. What it won't get through is the destruction of the democracy to benefit the elite privileged grouping this aristocratic failed finance minister represents. Given his past, should any country really take his advice?

I understand your point. Some of those people don't seem very trustful. On the other side, I don't see how the country will get through the mess of the rice scam (and other scams), because YL never wants to acknowledge mistakes and always blames the others.

What it really needs to try and solve this is a working government, not one kneecapped by the self-serving demands of a scumbag like Suthep. I tend to agree she needs to listen more and there are few signs that she's doing enough of that yet. That said, reporting on Reuters last week was quite clear that she was no longer cow-towing to her brother and she's increasingly her own person. Given the vast amount of external money invested in Thailand I imagine there are all sorts of hefty discussions going on here that we don't know about, involving global players.

She also seems to have garnered some international respect for the calm determination she's shown in recent months - although the "man in Dubai" chanters would never be able to grasp that.

Sorry? Why was she towing cows? And what with?

By the way, she kowtows to just about everyone.

Thanks. I will avoid the Maldives.

Who was it that said the PDRC isnt offering any solutions?

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/702536-suthep-says-plundering-rice-warehouse-is-next-step/

Hows about that then?

Yes well, Savile deserved to have gone to jail as does this woman.

A mass withdrawal of monies from banks? Just what PT needs right now.

Based on the bank that assured it staff it would not give a loan to pay the rice farmers, we have today closed that account at that bank, the boycott works both ways,.

Just a little drop in the bucket, but my drop!

Cheers

I can understand token gestures. I feel better already not drinking Singha water. But the bottom line is: Thailand is in good shape ( rice mountain notwithstanding), can and will pay its debts, has plenty of reserves, strong foreign investment. These problems are so temporary....just a blip. All will recover, life will go on.........

Bad advice that no one should listen to. Infact there is clearly some panic in your words.

If only they'd just kept quiet . . . now that run is starting . . .

Exactly. When a bank says don't panic, it's time to get your money out. I took all my savings out of the Krung Thai bank yesterday and many other people were doing the same.

Payment to poor rice farmers of N and NE must be stop at all cost.

No reason why the rice farmers cannot sell rice themselves, when everyone in Thailand is eating rice.

Government should be giving help money to oil palm & rubber farmers in the South instead, as they are the one that are in need of help.

Because unlike rice, not everyone in Thailand is eating palm or rubber.

Insideous palm oil gets into many food products. You just don't know you are eating it. Nasty s**t.

not such a surprise

Soon Suthep won t be needed to pull PT out, their voters will do it for him

I think the voters who support PT don't really care much about these things. They are influenced in other ways.

I agree. I speak to teachers at my issan school who have never heard of the rice scheme.

That will give them a clear majority and a return to power. Guess Suthep may have been wrong when he stated the majority supported him.

It is not sooo hard to win a majority if you run the elections without opposition.....The leader in North Korea also got reelected every couple of years. Honecker also won every election.

Saddam used to get 100 per cent of the vote with no opposition and Mugabe has been known to get more than 100 per cent of the vote in some areas and that's in a democracy just like Thailand. Of course the party boss in Zimbabwe is a very rich and powerful man...erm.... just like Thailand.

And Mugabe is a personal friend of Thaksin's who has business interests in Zimbabwe.

Mugabe will die soon, and the world will be a better place.

Another key PDRC leader also urged all protesters who have money in any bank to withdraw their money if their banks provide loans to the government.

The Public Debt Management Office invited financial institutions to hear terms on the bridging loan auction today after the first round failed with no bidders.

The loan in the second round auction will be doubled to 40 billion baht.

Hit them in the wallet, that's where it really hurts. I don't understand why Suthep hasn't pushed the idea of people boycotting all Shin businesses. Get after it, and mail me a copy of the list.

They have a good point. This could easily result in a run on the banks weeks or months down the line.

I don't know where the money should come from but I would like to see the farmers paid ASAP. They have worked hard to provide us with food and deserve to be rewarded for there efforts.

Amen

These loonies need to pack up an go home. They have been trounced. The people have spoken: they want to be able to choose their government, not have it dictated to them by corrupt former politicians like Suthep, D-list celebrities no one ever heard of, and the likes of the beer heiress. Fortunately Thai people have better sense and are brave enough not to be intimidated by the hired goons.IT'S OVER...

Fine......They can all go ahead and drown in a mire of corruption then.

Change the name back to Siam and start again.

Shame on Thailand. They look preposterous. Who would ever do business with Thailand seeing how this place is run?

I agree with you..why would anyone else in the rest of the civilized, financial and investment world even want to blink at showing an iota of a risk interest in this place anymore?...I wouldn't...This place is a comedy act out of vaudeville..Its an embarassment...If only those who were born and raised and live here had a clue at how stupid they have made this place look..then they would understand why the rest of us snicker at it all so much

For those looking for a cheap place to live, it'll do. As for investing here, not in a million years.

The farmers need to stop rice farming, go into palm oil... Suthep knows a thing or two about that!!!

Oh great! Palm oil, the ruin of virgin forests all over the world. As Thailand has almost no forest left might as well grow it. Potatoes and wheat would be better, both far more nutritious than white rice.

An army of 3,000+++ General Vs a few vans of Khmers. What do these people actually think a real army does?

Unless they were playing snooker I'd back almost any army against Thailand's.

Don't forget they went to Iraq for 2 weeks.

The friendliest people, the prettiest girls and a better quality expat live in the North and North East. Foreign investment would be relocate there due to the low risk of flooding and good communications with Lao. Already many companies are moving to Khon Kaen and the Chinese are buying land like like it was going out of fashion. Without the racist Democrats (ha ha) a better relationship would be forged with Cambodia. The North and North East would retain its land of smiles. The South would be run by corrupt nationalists, where everyone is fighting to get to the trough.

'Better quality expats' Like all the ones lurking outside the crack-whore shacks. And most of the expats in Bangkok have jobs too.