Eloquent pilgrim

Not at all; everyone that knows anything about cricket, knows that not only can someone in an Australian cricket team, not alter the condition of the ball without the bowlers knowing about it, but they would actually need their express approval and advice as to how.

Bias, that’s priceless coming from you, absolutely priceless. The huge difference at Newlands was that it wasn’t a spur of the moment, pick up a bit of dirt to rub on the ball incident; it was a prearranged conspiracy between Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood, Smith, Warner, and their chosen patsy, the unfortunate Bancroft, to take a concealed agent (sandpaper) onto the field of play, to deliberately, and continuously use to alter the condition of the ball. Cricket Australia then, in an act of extreme cowardice, whitewashed their enquiry to let Bancroft, Smith and Warner, shoulder the blame, thus exonerating the main protagonists, Starc, Hazlewood, and Captain Colegate, who have never paid any penance for their leading part.

So, you’ve completely ignored my comment about the Cameron Bancroft interview, and defaulted to classic whataboutery … I wonder why ?

That’s a fair comment, Lyon has just got better and better over the last 5 years, and is now one of the best spinners in the world; think they should have had the courage to stick with young Todd Murphy, he looks a good prospect, and dropping him after one match will surely knock his confidence

Indeed. In 2021 Cameron Bancroft crawled out from underneath the bus that Cricket Australia had thrown him under, and when asked in an interview if Australia’s bowlers knew about the plan to use sandpaper on the ball during the match at Newlands. He replied that the answer was “pretty probably self-explanatory”. The bowlers were Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon. It will eventually all be revealed when either Warner, or more probably Bancroft, retire, and spill everything in a biography. It will also be revealed that it was happening long before they were caught in the act. In the 2017-18 Ashes in Australia, the Aussie bowlers achieved prodigious swing, and reverse, while Jimmy Anderson, the best swing bowler in the world achieved little to none.

A good decision to ignore; it is mostly racist anti-British comments, all rather tiresome and predictable. I might put them on the ignore list myself.

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.