snoop1130 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Cabinet retreat in NEast ‘not part of an attempt to build political alliance ahead of election’, govt figures insist By The Nation File photo Amid alleged attempts to woo former MPs into a pro-Prayut party’s fold, government figures on Monday rejected suspicion that the Cabinet retreat in the Northeast early next week was part of the bid to build up a political alliance ahead of the next general election. Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said the mobile Cabinet meeting in Ubon Ratchathani and Amnat Charoen was aimed at hearing opinions from local residents regarding development in their area. “This has nothing to do with wooing politicians at all,” Wissanu insisted. He also said that he had not heard of any move to mobilise local residents and politicians to welcome Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. General Prayut, who also heads the ruling junta National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), on Monday refused to answer a Government House reporter’s question as to whether the upcoming Cabinet retreat was politically motivated. The next mobile Cabinet meeting is scheduled for July 23-24 in Ubon Ratchathani and Amnat Charoen. The meeting’s original venue was the northern provinces of Chiang Rai and Phayao, but the Cabinet decided to move it to the Northeast because local officials in Chiang Rai had worked hard for many days in the operation to rescue the 12 young footballers and their assistant coach trapped in the Tham Luang cave, according to PM’s Office Minister Kobsak Pootrakool. Former Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osottanakorn, who headed the rescue operation, has now become governor of neighbouring Phayao province. Kobsak also denied any political motivation for the Cabinet to choose Ubon Ratchathani and Amnat Charoen as their mobile meeting’s venue. He said the allegation linking the retreat with ongoing moves by the pro-Prayut Palang Pracharat Party was “untrue”. A group of political veterans calling themselves “Sam Mit” (Three Friends) are touring the Northeast to meet with former MPs and local red-shirt leaders. Critics and fellow politicians from established parties have accused the group of wooing ex-MPs to defect to Palang Pracharat, which plans to nominate Prayut as its prime ministerial candidate in the next general election. Sam Mit has met with many red-shirt leaders in more than 10 northeastern provinces, according to former Nakhon Ratchasima MP Pirom Polwiset, who is the group’s secretary. He said Sam Mit was aiming to help bring about reconciliation by reaching out to all political groups involved in the political conflict in the past, particularly the red shirts. Pirom said supporters of the red-shirt umbrella group United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) formed the majority of people in the Northeast and his group wanted to share views with their leaders. “We met with UDD leaders in more than 10 provinces and they gave us a warm welcome,” he said. Sam Mit would hold a meeting with UDD people as soon as the NCPO gives permission, Pirom said, adding that he expected more than 500 red-shirt people to attend that meeting. The former MP also dismissed an allegation that Sam Mit was wooing former MPs into its fold. “We just ask for their views and thoughts,” he said, adding that his group now has “almost 200 members”. Core UDD leader Nattawut Saikua on Monday wished the defecting red-shirt leaders good luck. “We are still friends but politically, we need to part ways now,” he said. Nattawut added that voters often gave “painful lessons” to politicians who “turned their back on the democratic movement to join a dictatorship”. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30350181 -- © Copyright The Nation 2018-7-16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracker1 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Have to win them reds over somehow ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ramrod711 Posted July 16, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2018 13 minutes ago, snoop1130 said: Amid alleged attempts to woo former MPs into a pro-Prayut party’s fold, government figures on Monday rejected suspicion that the Cabinet retreat in the Northeast early next week was part of the bid to build up a political alliance ahead of the next general election. Utter nonsense, they're going for the peace, tranquility, friendly atmosphere and the lovely ocean view. ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Eligius Posted July 16, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2018 (edited) Don't you, like me, just get so sick and tired of being treated by these people as a complete and utter idiot?! Edited July 16, 2018 by Eligius 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ratcatcher Posted July 16, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2018 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiKiwi Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Of course not. But if it was, would he say so? Of course not, so the whole article is pointless fluff, whose only objective is to keep his bloody name in the papers. It's depressing how low these thugs will bend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 When you don't believe this one, I will tell you another tale... LOL! One can be an hypocrite without being a liar, but congrats, you won gold in both categories. Sadly, for you, it won't make 1st page news, as that is your tiring, boring, daily routine. Please, do wake us all up, in total surprise, ...telling some meaningfull TRUTH about the country you are shamelessly abusing, ...for the next 20 years, it seems! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Just now, ratcatcher said: Thank you, so much, 'ratcatcher': in just a picture, the right one, you really hit the nail, deep (outside of the 'innocent' hypocrite's face, copying the sign made by the ones hating him, how silly can you be...)! No, rather that you made me think of the efforts Charly Chaplin and the people around him developped to ridicule the subject of 'The Great Dictator', ...compared to the huge quantity of 'material' readily available here, which could have made it much more easy, and even more hilarious, not even thinking about the contribution of Froggy-the-watch-man at his side. But slapstick is dead, as are silent movies, which could though be much appreciated by most basic Thai TV-watchers every Friday evening... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Gunn Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 2 hours ago, ratcatcher said: As The Who sang, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...". Unfortunately for Thailand, the song seems to end there or more specifically, they're listening to vinyl and the record skips at that point in the song. They don't ever get to "We won't get fooled again...". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bangrak Posted July 16, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2018 Just now, Hank Gunn said: As The Who sang, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...". Unfortunately for Thailand, the song seems to end there or more specifically, they're listening to vinyl and the record skips at that point in the song. They don't ever get to "We won't get fooled again...". Has there been a Thai version of that song? When it was only the English one, no wonder why they missed out on it... Don't you know the mighty Thais have never been colonised, and that Thai is a World language to be (well, at least according to 'uncle', on weed or mushrooms, I don't know)? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoon Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 (edited) 9 hours ago, Eligius said: Don't you, like me, just get so sick and tired of being treated by these people as a complete and utter idiot?! Next to nothing they say or do is calculated for my (or any other foreign, non-voter) consumption. That I know what they say and do is a "by-product" (courtesy of translators). The performance is for Thai people. People who can vote and defend (or storm) a barricade. If I am in Thailand at the time I can, of course, join in the latter activities, but nobody is much concerned about me seeking to initiate them. In this area of discourse "they" are not treating me in any way, Edited July 16, 2018 by Enoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 14 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Cabinet retreat in NEast ‘not part of an attempt to build political alliance ahead of election’, govt figures insist "..., instead we did a team building effort by playing "Connect Four" and doing the Chicken Dance." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yardrunner Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 well as someone once famously said, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck and that definitely looks like electioneering 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM07 Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 "No...we are not campaigning, why everybody else is not allowed to....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Media1 Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Spending the people's money and were not elected or given authority to do so lol. Who will they vote for lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chama Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Oh no! Their lips are moving again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogsBarkingAllDay Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 There is article somewhere else which is prohibited posting here saying a Surin red shirt leader admitted switching side. He rebuked Nattawut keep emphasizing democracy yet the UDD secretary-general and other key members appointed themselves to lead the UDD. Self-appointed = dictator ?? Yet they keep talking about democracy. So contradicting. Does anyone know more about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 On 7/17/2018 at 7:36 PM, chama said: Oh no! Their lips are moving again! 'chama': as if that kind of characters need to move their lips to lie their heads off! ...Ah, when that last would be true, some ugly bowling bowls would be rolling down the streets! But TiT, must be a part of that Thainess thing 'uncle'&Co. want to spread, wonder why... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 On 7/17/2018 at 8:47 PM, IAMjustAforeignerWHOloveTH said: There is article somewhere else which is prohibited posting here saying a Surin red shirt leader admitted switching side. He rebuked Nattawut keep emphasizing democracy yet the UDD secretary-general and other key members appointed themselves to lead the UDD. Self-appointed = dictator ?? Yet they keep talking about democracy. So contradicting. Does anyone know more about this? As much as you probably, having read it on 'the other paper', seems true. P.S.: when you'd need some help to choose a, shorter, avatar, no doubt a lot of help available on TV, 26 caps, wow! 'Alien loving TH' would already reduce it to 15, no doubt others could come up with better, and shorter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogsBarkingAllDay Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 21 minutes ago, bangrak said: As much as you probably, having read it on 'the other paper', seems true. P.S.: when you'd need some help to choose a, shorter, avatar, no doubt a lot of help available on TV, 26 caps, wow! 'Alien loving TH' would already reduce it to 15, no doubt others could come up with better, and shorter. I like to use full capacity on the avatar. cheers~ ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickstart Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 On 7/16/2018 at 7:16 PM, ratcatcher said: And if my memory serves me right our Mr. T held some mobile cabinets meetings, in Issan. Our PM has a low regard for Thaksin, but he is doing more and more of his ideas, the 200 000 baht village fund, helping rice farmers, (heard just today wife's daughter is a rice farmer and the government is going to pay1500 baht/rie). He will be implementing a rice-buying scheme next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 On 7/17/2018 at 9:08 PM, IAMjustAforeignerWHOloveTH said: I like to use full capacity on the avatar. cheers~ ? As you feel IAJAFWLT... When so, please, do add an 's' to make 'loves', as you are 'a', so singular, reaching 27, a record here I guess, wow! As for what 'full capacity' is concerned, I leave you with the full responsibility to prove it to us all very openly quite soon... Evidence, undisputable evidence, that's what we need here, LOL ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 6 minutes ago, kickstart said: And if my memory serves me right our Mr. T held some mobile cabinets meetings, in Issan. Our PM has a low regard for Thaksin, but he is doing more and more of his ideas, the 200 000 baht village fund, helping rice farmers, (heard just today wife's daughter is a rice farmer and the government is going to pay1500 baht/rie). He will be implementing a rice-buying scheme next. Yes Thaksin is being copied and his MP's lured away. I wonder how much impact this has on the elections later on how many people really switch sides. Will be real interesting to see. Whoever wins is of no concern to me. I dislike them both and don't want either of them to win but they are the only 2 who have a chance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogsBarkingAllDay Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 12 minutes ago, bangrak said: As you feel IAJAFWLT... When so, please, do add an 's' to make 'loves', as you are 'a', so singular, reaching 27, a record here I guess, wow! As for what 'full capacity' is concerned, I leave you with the full responsibility to prove it to us all very openly quite soon... Evidence, undisputable evidence, that's what we need here, LOL ? ?? My englishh is not powderful ass yourS. PleazeS forgiveS MeS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 What was the name of that minister from Saddham's Irak again, telling the members of the foreign press he had gathered at the riverside that the invading forces had been all pushed back into the sea, ...while in the background, on the other bank, a couple of humvees were speeding, lifting a dustcloud? Please, TV posters, give me the name, to use it as the determinative for the bunch of crap sabre draggers here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lawrence Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Hope he packed the Gucci scarf. Latter will be cold up that way. Or that could have been for the French press to show that he fits in anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangrak Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 (edited) On 7/17/2018 at 9:24 PM, IAMjustAforeignerWHOloveTH said: ?? My englishh is not powderful ass yourS. PleazeS forgiveS MeS. KiZZy ? Edited July 17, 2018 by bangrak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryasimight Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 6 minutes ago, bangrak said: What was the name of that minister from Saddham's Irak again, telling the members of the foreign press he had gathered at the riverside that the invading forces had been all pushed back into the sea, ...while in the background, on the other bank, a couple of humvees were speeding, lifting a dustcloud? Please, TV posters, give me the name, to use it as the determinative for the bunch of crap sabre draggers here! Comical Ali? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 5 minutes ago, Chris Lawrence said: Hope he packed the Gucci scarf. Latter will be cold up that way. Or that could have been for the French press to show that he fits in anywhere. Just be happy that he is not wearing buberry boots ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaak327 Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Did they bring a bag of money like they did last time when they visited Buriram ? Or did they win the hearts without tax payer money ? To answer the question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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