Eric Loh

Somkid, you are FIRED!

27 minutes ago, AGareth2 said:

How did they get their seats?

How else can a party that won only less than 1% of popular votes got 2 seats. Courtesy of the crony EC ridiculous and mystifying party list formula. 

Not surprised at all with this news. Damrong has always praised the junta government particularly Prawit. He defended Prawit’s watchgate by suggesting that was a smear campaign to (wait for it.,) to destroy his character. He is just another junta lackey and doing this for his own self ‘monetary’ reason. 

52 minutes ago, boonrawdcnx said:

Oh the coward Chalerm is back! Where was he the last 5 years while Cha Cha and his cronies dismantled everything that was left of Thailand’s fragile democracy?


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He was quiet after demanded to report to the the army barrack with other previous ministers. Those NCPO policies warning against criticism must have affected him like so many others. It was not a normal time last 5 years.

He did do better rigging the election like no others have done before. History will remember him as a rather dim individual who was an accidental general and premier with no significant achievements. 

9 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

Is there any significant difference? 

Plenty actually. Donkeys are intelligent and smart enough to avoid unsafe acts. Chimps are rather stupid and tend to repeat an act even if unsafe. 

Just leave and things will be better.

1 hour ago, gamini said:

Taxation is relative to all political parties and usually is an important part of the manifesto.

 no party, which has been elected has any policy of taxation at all. In fact, they all have the same fiscal policy. None of them had advocated higher taxes and taxing the rich, so the voters had little choice. Maybe that's why so many of them voted for the junta parties.

No doubt is that tax reforms are important which is why all parties include them in their manifesto. You can look that up here https://prachatai.com/english/node/7980 and find the list of tax reforms which include personal tax, inheritance tax, land tax among many other proposed tax reforms. 

He seem like a utility man and been hanging around in the party for a very long time but never had the fortitude to speak out against the party incumbents. Some may call that a lack of spine. He will allow himself to be cowed by the more vocal pro military party members. Done deal and heading to the arms of the PPRP.

25 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Now imagine Yingluck would have worked for the people. What then? Would the coup still have happened?

People accepted the Yingluck government at the beginning. Even people who didn't vote for her gave her a chance to show that she would work for the Thai people and not for her big brother.

But what did she do? About the first thing that happened was that criminal big brother got his passport back. People didn't like it but it was still quiet. And then came the rice-scam. People still pretended to believe her she didn't know about the corruption. And then her government tried to whitewash big brother at 4am together with 10 other criminals. That was the beginning of the end of her government.

You don't seem to understand that the elites and the military do not want to be threatened by the rise of the peasants who realized that they can chose the leaders rather than being dominated for ages. Thaksin appealed to this group and have given them good policies that benefit them. That's why he and Yingluck got re-elected by a landslide victory. Don't disrespect the people decision by degradatory remarks. 

The coup was planned even before Yingluck implement any policies. She gave passport back to her brother was within her rights as elected government. No difference from Prayut giving a free pass to Prawit's watch corruption. The amnesty at 4 am was open to the opposition MPs but they declined to attend. Anyway, the amnesty bill was not pushed unlike the junta's self approving amnesty. Open your eyes to such discrepancies. 

You said that you anti junta yet you speak so fondly about the coup. Hard to understand where you stand and who you try to defend. 

Bunch of losers discarded by the military as well as the people in the election. 

2 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

Could there be a coincidence between the new junta/elite dominated senate being confirmed and the rise of the baht? Surely not?

Certainly not but sure that foreign and domestic investors welcome the starting of Parliament which will mean the 2020 budget will be determined and funds released for those infrastructure projects. 

6 hours ago, HuskerDo said:

My grandfather was a farmer for his entire life (passed at age 98) and he would simply plow the field after the harvest and let it turn to mulch basically prior to the next planting season. Is there no way the govt can purchase a few hundred tractors and travel from farm to farm performing the service for free so the tourist industry stays strong and it's people don't have to breathe that nasty air every year? 

The junta rather buy 37 armoured vehicles than tractors. Speak for itself.