Mr Meeseeks

If they can't get folk on motorbikes to wear helmets, they've got no chance with this one.

Wouldn't surprise me to see them go after this guy's family in Thailand as they have before when the subject exceeds the reach of their authority. See the journalists in exile, both Thai and foreign, for prominent examples.

Quick, somebody tell Ferrari Joe.

It's the only way to get them to do anything. Ramp up the pressure on social media. The driver may be army thus connected and Police unwilling to pursue a case against him.

Thailand has a conscript army, not a professional one.

Being refused service in a restaurant in Iceland = serious issue, action taken through the Thai courts. Conviction for smuggling heroin into Australia = not recognised under Thai law. This nonsense continually shows how backward and laughable this place really is.

On what metric?

Yet the US is too scared to recognise Taiwan as independent. Go figure.

They are all 'up to something'. They cannot lie straight in bed this lot.

Yet they appointed a convicted drug smuggler to a ministerial position.

In Thailand, being old and 'senior' is the merit. Pee and Nong etc. Nothing in this culture gets done based on actual ability or competence.

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It has never worked before, no reason to think it will now. Just more spoiled children fighting other spoiled children. Nothing will change.

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He had chlamydia once, but he still doesn't wear a condom.

What 'efforts' are those then?

I doubt Singapore Airlines are too happy about having their logo plastered all over these homemade Thai buses.

The government are responsible for this current debacle. Their incompetence and mismanagement of this issue, if it causes business and people to lose money, is directly attributable to their actions, thus they should be held accountable.

They should leave it as it is. If it ain't broke why fix it? The problem at the moment is there is a very vocal, conservative lobby, pushing for the re-criminalisation of cannabis, including many members of the current government. The Thaksin governments have always traditionally been anti-drugs. Thailand needs to remain firm on this issue as other countries around the World are moving towards decriminalisation and legalisation, and this potential stutter-step by Thailand could leave them lagging far behind other countries. Right now they have a competitive advantage.

Not true. Under Thaksin, visas became increasingly more difficult to obtain. During Thaksin's time in office, they stopped the agents sending your passport out of the country for visas and stamps, raised the departure tax from 500 to 700thb, raised the extension fees from 500thb to 1,900thb and raised the overstay fee from 200thb per day to 500thb. There were other initiatives that began in his first term of office as well, those are the ones I can distinctly remember.

Again, a government with a convicted heroin smuggler as a Minister can only be viewed as total hypocrites on this issue. IMO, they are simply incompetent brigands who make a mess of everything they touch.

Work only cashier, not work bar. Big Joke only working stiff. ????

It's working illegally and overstay. At one time in the early 2000's, some 80% of Thais visiting the US overstayed their visas. That's a lot.

That only works one way though as the criminal records' system is much more robust in the West than in Thailand. You can easily have your record falsified in Thailand for a few thousand Baht. I know Thai felons who have done jail time for drug dealing in Thailand that have obtained false criminal record checks, obtained visas and visited Australia and New Zealand, among other places. Then there is the issue of Thais overstaying, working illegally etc., which is the reason visas are so difficult to obtain for them, and rightly so. Thailand is so corrupt and untrustworthy that these ideas simply don't work with them.

☝️ This.