NanLaew

True. https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-has-east-timor-built-strongest-democracy-southeast-asia

Are you trying to say Thais are not lazy....? Sorry, I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

And the £ will rise well above 50 baht a pop and I can get the wife a new kitchen and a new battery for the Harley.

Since you appear to be a history buff, can you name any "violence/uprisings/revolutions" in recent history and in any country that have resulted in more democracy?

If the current coalition fails to get an acceptable PM candidate (which it won't) it will disintegrate, then there will be an indeterminate period while the parties go around the houses, cobbling together a coalition who's PM candidate (Prawit) will be accepted.

totally wrecks the old romantic notion of f***ing the s**t out of someone too...

Do I know you?

So your repeated badgering of members as to whether they watched it is totally irrelevant? Who would have thought.

As opposed to manufactured fake woman.

Brick wall Touché

Give over. You just KNOW that those excitable sort that overuse the term "trans hater" would be all over this one like rash, calling for a Stewards Inquiry because they think their horse was nobbled.

I understand that Allison Pearson is Welsh actually.

Seems very moot what will happen to the current Senate at the end of its term, whenever that is. May or possibly March 2024 I guess. Will it continue on? Will there be elections? It doesn't get talked about much. PT and MFP must have plans for it. Shrouded in mystery. If the caretakers are still clinging to power (and they will be), I am sure the Constitutional Court will rule favorably on them (as they are paid to do) should they invoke martial law (which they will) maybe 15 hours before that particular excreta is about to hit the proverbial.

Umm, let me check. No, there's no penalty for stifling democracy stated in the current Constitution.

Thaksin's political vehicle is on its third iteration. Thanathorn's is only on its second re-invention. When they = 3, maybe they will get another stab at abject failure.

Sorry, but unlike the lazy Brits and indolent French with their expansive social safety nets, the Thai people simply can't afford to go on strike.

How simplistic. The current Constitution that enables this rigged upper house can only be rescinded after a new, non-loyalist, coalition government is seated and manages to rewrite the Constitution. As sure as death and taxes, the current "caretakers" will still be in place and will renew the expiring 5-year "fixed" Senate with more of the same under the protections of the current Constitution.

A sweeping generalization. Just last week, the Lords rejected several of the more odious items of the sitting UK government's xenophobic immigration law reforms.

Yeah... no wonder Rutte pulled the bloody pin.

Pushing an idealogy... or how to win friends an influence people for the Millennials.

And if she hadn't placed at all, the rabid flock that invented the notion of "trans haters" would be loud and proud. They totally devalue the Pride movement with their ever-expanding gender classifications, supposedly in the name being "inclusive". To paraphrase Blaire White, a prolific trans YouTuber, "What on earth is 2SLGTBQIA+? It sounds like the Wi-Fi password at Starbucks."

Only as far as the army-stuffed upper house exists. Their 5-year use-by date comes up some time around April 2024. ...unless the "caretakers" hang on to power (and you know they can) and re-appoint another 5-year Senate (which they probably will).

Going? Gone a fair while ago already.

How about the Dutch women? You know, the ones that were born woman and remain women? This has buggerall to do with fragile male egos. I'm with Allison on this. The crowning of Miss Netherlands is a brazenly ambitious form of misogyny When I was growing up, men were best at most things. Little did we know that one day, they would be better than women at beauty contests https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/07/12/miss-netherlands-transgender-model-rikkie-valeria-kolle/

An abstention is not a No vote, never has been, never will be. Anywhere.