Eloquent pilgrim

The prospect of going to the oval at 2-2, to play out a thrilling decider, has been enchanting the genuine cricket fans from both of these great cricketing nations; only the dimmest of partisans crave a trophy so badly as to be gratified by a non result.

Priceless, absolutely priceless ...

Indeed they are not. However, the problem is, that they are a minority, from families that are affluent enough to sponsor their children through higher education and then university. You have obviously not seen any of the millions of 7 to 15 year old children that are required to miss school and start working, because their families are poor and disadvantaged. Maybe you should visit Thailand one day and see for yourself.

Well done, outstanding mathematics, did you use a calculator ? Here’s some more mathematics for you: Pheu Thai party, second in the election, received only 28.86% of the votes. So, 71.14% of the electorate that voted, wanted a different party to Pheu Thai, and 87.45% of the electorate that voted, wanted a different party to United Thai Nation.

His party received 32% more of the eligible votes than its nearest rival, and 200% more than the second nearest rival after that; you have a remarkably twisted concept of a failed candidate.

Best to ignore him, he is anti-democracy, and even supports the cruel, despotic CCP.

Complete and utter nonsense from you ..... once again

So, you are trying to diminish the success of MFP by using the total number of eligible voters to show a percentage of only 27. The fact remains that MFP received 38.1% of the votes of the eligible electorate that exercised their constitutional right to vote. Your anti-democracy spin on the figures does not cut the mustard; those that did not for some reason vote, cannot be part of the equation, and it remains that MFP still received 32% more votes than any other party. They are the party of the people.

This doesn’t make any sense the way it is written; so could you explain more clearly what you are trying to say, and also what the 27% of possible voters refers to … thanks

please try and pay attention, this post is about the consequences of the Thai Prime Ministerial vote.

I don’t know why you are trying to spin it as a narrow margin over PT. MFP won 10 more seats than PT, but more importantly, they won 38.01% of the valid votes, compared to 28.86 won by PT. That is 32% more than PT, so an overwhelming number of the electorate will feel disenfranchised. The next largest percentage of votes for any other party was 12.55%, and after that it drops to 3% or less.

Thanks for such a stunningly intellectual contribution to the debate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Both the Election Commission and the Constitutional Court, are puppets of the Military The springboard quivers The colours run Negotiating with a loaded gun

Absolute nonsense as usual; everyone has seen your history of anti-democratic comments, you have even on many occasions supported the despotic, anti-democratic, inhuman CCP

Appallingly anti-democratic comment; you distill the very essence of everything the Thai electorate have been fighting against

Where’s Gottfried when we need him most ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's probably a "Jekyll & Hide"

Indeed, it was ever thus. Only recently, in March this year, Germany held climate change legislation hostage to ensure guarantees for its car industry, even though the legislation had been agreed collectively by the EU. More recently, France has blocked agreed legislation on renewable energy, to secure promises that its nuclear industry will not suffer. Poland has just threatened a referendum on EU migrant quotas, after being outvoted on plans that would force it to pay €20,000 for each refugee / migrant it refuses to host. With a population of only 37 million, Poland has already taken in 1.5 Million genuine refugees from Ukraine, and the EU wants to punish them like this. The other 3 members of the Visegrad group will surely follow. Greece and Italy left to deal unaided with the invasion from Africa across the Mediterranean; and with more than a billion in Sub Saharan Africa wanting access to Europe, they haven't any hope of stopping them alone. So here we have it, a Federal State cocooned in a tangled bureaucracy that does not work. Countries acting in their own national interests (why-ever not ?) and fractured attempts to pass unwanted laws. Thanks to the foresight of the 52%

You are most certainly at liberty to voice your opinion and to continue to do so; after all it is only 7 years thus far. I know many people that, prior to Brexit, were still apoplectic about how Ted Heath sold out the UK’s fishing industry with his application to join the EEC in 1970. Their anger was further amplified in 2001, when files were finally released under the 30 year suppression rule. They showed that chief negotiator Geoffrey Rippon, had told Heath that if he agreed to the Regulation 2141/70 (common fisheries policy) that he will have to sacrifice the UK’s fishing industry. The UK, an island nation surrounded by sea with a bountiful supply of fish, had one of the largest fishing fleets in the world at the time; but thanks to the treacherous Heath, thriving fishing towns like Hull, Grimsby, Fleetwood, etc, were soon reduced to massive hubs of poverty and unemployment, from which they have never recovered. History doesn't forget. It was also revealed that when Heath was made aware of the “Werner” report, his only reaction was to say that the public must not under any circumstances be made aware of it. The Werner Report was a document that ministers had commissioned Pierre Werner, the then Prime Minister of Luxembourg to draw up. It set out a plan to move the Common Market forward to full economic and monetary union, with the view to creating a federal state with the authority to make laws for sovereign states that joined. We have since witnessed the continuing implementation of this, which was my reason for voting to leave the EU. So, keep voicing your discontent, the history of political decisions such as this, can span many decades, and unfortunately, as history can witness, decisions of paramount importance, can be made to massage one mans ego; as we saw with Heath, who wanted to be remembered as a European elitist, rather than the narcissistic fat poof that he really was.

Neither Ann Widdecombe or Nigel Farage had any hand whatsoever in choosing the Brexit negotiating team. As you say, you are not well versed in British politics, but perfectly entitled to give your opinion, and I haven’t noticed anyone trying to stop you from so doing.

With respect, you do not understand it correctly. Pointless arguments about whether or not it would be beneficial for the UK to rejoin the EU not withstanding, the decision to leave was made by a democratic referendum; it was a majority decision to leave, and there was no clause for a subsequent vote to try to overturn the result, or to rejoin at a later point in time. The issue of rejoining is only raised by people that still refuse to accept, rather than support, a democratic decision simply because it does not align with their own opinion and wishes.

The UK will not decide to rejoin the EU; so anything you say, or have said subsequently, is fantasising and completely and utterly pointless.

Indeed. I find it remarkable that some people are still wetting their pants about the result of a referendum that took place 7 years ago. It was decided by a majority vote of the eligible electorate that chose to use their right to vote; there will not be another referendum, despite all the squealing from those that only support democratic decisions when they align with their own opinion.

So the OP reads the Guardian, and doesn’t understand how a democratic vote works …. quelle surprise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Stop making up completely and utterly insane nonsense