webfact Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 PM Prayut asks for public confidence in government BANGKOK, 13 November 2017 (NNT) - The Prime Minister has asked the public to have more faith in the government and all it is doing for the country. The spokesman of the Prime Minister’s Office, Lt. Gen. Sunsern Kaewkumnerd, said that the government has been informed of a continued improvement in the economic situation, revealed in research by the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce showing the Thai consumer confidence index has risen for the sixth consecutive month in October to 65.1. The UTCC report also shows that the future Thai consumer confidence index, which gauges sentiment over the next three months, also rose to 80.8 in October, he said. Lt. Gen. Sunsern stated that improving indices have indicated that recovery is underway in consumer spending, job opportunities, tourism spending and investment, partly due to ongoing export growth, the government’s public welfare card project, and falling retail fuel prices He added that Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha has passed along his message to the people of Thailand, in which he promised that the government will do everything possible to improve the economy of Thailand and to tackle economic problems of Thais in general. According to the PM’s message, the local economy has been improving constantly, from a growth rate of 0.8% in 2014 to 3.2% in 2016 and 3.7% in the second quarter of 2017 while the government hopes this year’s growth rate will end at 3.8%. Gen. Prayut had also confirmed that the government’s economic policies won't change despite the Cabinet reshuffle, while asking the public to have confidence in the current administration, said Lt. Gen. Sunsern. -- nnt 2017-11-13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samui Bodoh Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 (edited) 17 minutes ago, webfact said: PM Prayut asks for public confidence in government Er... Mr PM, confidence is something that is earned, not asked for. And if you need to ask for it after three plus years, you haven't earned it and don't really deserve it. Edited November 12, 2017 by Samui Bodoh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkidlad Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 14 minutes ago, webfact said: Prime Minister has asked the public to have more faith in the government and all it is doing for the country. Yes. Nearly 4 years on and there’s still a political ban and Thailand is no closer to any form of real democracy. Elections next year? Why should anyone have faith? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z42 Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 This muppet Sanserm makes me want to vomit everytime I see his ridiculous smug face. I know that as a spin doctor his job is to spout BS and put a positive slant on it, but I can't ever recall an instance where he has come even close to doing that successfully. He just looks like a shameless liar doing an awful job of portraying an awful pseudo government in a less than awful light. The economy is on its arse, and it hasn't helped that the government through a whole range of schemes and crackdowns have noticeably sucked the life and soul out of some of the most colourful and unique things that Thailand has. Anyone with an ounce of sense could not have any faith that this sham of an administration have done any real good for the nation in the last 3 years. I love the country in that some of the people here are simply wonderful, and that it is any respects a paradise, but I am disgusted at how much it has fallen in the last 3 to 4 years, and from what some of the real old timers here say, last 20. Sad as can be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YetAnother Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 13 minutes ago, z42 said: This muppet Sanserm makes me want to vomit everytime I see his ridiculous smug face. I know that as a spin doctor his job is to spout BS and put a positive slant on it, but I can't ever recall an instance where he has come even close to doing that successfully. He just looks like a shameless liar doing an awful job of portraying an awful pseudo government in a less than awful light. agree; yet, he has value; anything he says, believe the opposite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coulson Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 You don't ask for confidence, you earn it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Who believes a storyteller twice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quandow Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 And I'm asking for people to have more faith that I will grow more hair on the top of my head. Let's see who gets there first. STILL waiting on those soap operas . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newcomer71 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 3 years and half since he STOLEN the power and still nothing concrete has been done. Shut your mouth, do something for the country and confidence MAYBE will be earned. What a pathetic tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 4 hours ago, webfact said: the government’s economic policies won't change despite the Cabinet reshuffle TRANSLATION: DPM Somkid will remain in the Cabinet as Economic Advisor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGareth2 Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 as Margaret Thatcher was oft to say I have total confidence in my minister read this as the prime minister and his ministers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceruhe Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 When you need to be confident/believe in something that isn't there....he is becoming a religion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timendres Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 4 hours ago, webfact said: Lt. Gen. Sunsern stated that improving indices have indicated that recovery is underway in consumer spending, job opportunities, tourism spending and investment, partly due to ongoing export growth, the government’s public welfare card project, and falling retail fuel prices And, yet, the need for a sales tax refund program to stimulate spending. hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonmarleesco Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 4 hours ago, webfact said: '... have more faith in the government and all it is doing for the country. He might want to clarify that. Perhaps through one of his Q&A sessions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonmarleesco Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 He should try to keep ministers' mugs out of the media. One look at pictures of some of them, and faith flies out of the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaiyen Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 And the poor keep getting poorer and the rich ? Well you know, keep getting big envelopes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Confidence in a military Junta, don't make me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toybits Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 That is a very hard ask... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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