PM's brother and tourism committee come under fire

[Isaan sailor]

As an expat, I really don’t care who they appoint.  Just want that damned Baht to go down.

[gk10002000]

14 hours ago, YetAnother said:

this is what is wrong with thailand; corruption in the form of nepotism , blatantly in everyone's face; and they are even smiling !

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and Thais in Pattaya were sitting out in the heat and humidity on the pavement in the parking lot the other day for 200 baht handout from a local market.  More patience and tolerance than I have rarely seen.  Just how much can the people take?

[ThailandRyan]

"Thai netizens are roasting General Preecha Chan-o-cha, the younger brother of Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, after it became known through the Royal Gazette that he had been appointed a member of the Senate committee on tourism on Thursday."

 

First off, how much of a salary will he be paid for his participation in conjunction with his other salaries, and how can anyone do so many jobs well...answer they can not....

 

New TAT Slogan, "Bring your own countries special operations teams, and enjoy the scenic countryside as you practice search and destroy missions"

Edited April 20, 2020 by ThailandRyan

[Dogmatix]

“Preecha is the right choice. He was on vacation for 364 days instead of attending office. Who would know better about tourism?”

 

Preecha said that he was not appointed because of his brother, and he had on his own made the decision to join the committee.

 

????????

[Dogmatix]

8 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

As an expat, I really don’t care who they appoint.  Just want that damned Baht to go down.

If you are Brit on pension you probably hope sterling will go up too.  

[ParkerN]

15 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

If we can ever count on anything from Prayuth, it is that he will always pick from the bottom of the barrel, and rarely will anyone be appointed based on merit, or talent. This is part of the reason the army is despised by the Thai people, and the expat community, to the extent they are. 

 

They may very well be despised, but nobody's doing to do anything about it. Situation normal.

 

So round and around and around we go, the merry-go-round just keeps on-a-going The money going up the tree has to come from somewhere and until Thais grow some testicles, it'll just keep right on going...

 

All change relies on a catalyst, a 'trigger' event. Without that, nothing will happen and the status quo will prevail. The one thing you can be ultra-sure-of is that in Thailand, nothing will happen. The people who made the Thai culture what it is did their job well, perhaps for the only time in history.

 

 

Edited April 20, 2020 by ParkerN

[Bangkok Barry]

Funny - I've been trying to find who their mother is. Just curious about family background, but nothing in English language that I can see.

[poohy]

Was He lifted by those ears as a child something must have caused them to grow!

he would have trouble walking down an entry!

[Dap]

15 hours ago, zhounan said:

The mother of these two guys is very satisfied: two guys in the top rank army and now on the top of the government. Compliments. Big money in the future of Chan-o-cha family, while the Thai people are being mocked.

 

Well, "mocked" is one word that can be applied.

[sammieuk1]

Is he on the sub committee to? all aboard the sinking ship ????

[BobbyL]

You have got to hand it to these military boys, they have become so powerful in all aspects of the nation that they can literally do whatever they want in this country without any fear of reprisals. 

[holy cow cm]

Thoroughly disgusting. Thais need to toss the military out.

[keithathome]

2 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Thoroughly disgusting. Thais need to toss the military out.

The SLIGHT problem being they've just got some nice new tanks: oh what a coincidence.

[transam]

Did anyone expect any different...

[gk10002000]

He obviously inherited the right qualifications; a sibling of the future coup leader and "elected" PM.

[metisdead]

Some troll posts have been removed. 

 

A post using a trolling and disallowed reference to the PM and the replies have been removed.

 

A post using a profane acronym has been removed. 

[brommers]

Look at it this way, for decades the  Thai tourism industry itself has made Thailand into a bottom feeder by focusing on the most trashy and sleazy parts of tourism. You only have to look at Pattaya to see how degraded this country has become.

So why would you want to continue to place the country at this level? The collapse of global tourism is a golden opportunity to emulate what Greece did many decades ago. It got rid of trash tourism and chasing simple numbers of visitors - I am looking at you TAT - and went for higher revenue visitors who have more respect for the national culture.

So a gang of military "tourism experts" has the opportunity to break away from low grade tourism experts and shift the focus of this country away from being the lowest common denominator, that was established by the US military during the war in Vietnam, and make this country into a more civilised, culturally less debased destination. I only hope that they have the intellect to spot this huge opportunity.

[DrTuner]

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[Yadon Toploy]

3 minutes ago, brommers said:

Look at it this way, for decades the  Thai tourism industry itself has made Thailand into a bottom feeder by focusing on the most trashy and sleazy parts of tourism. You only have to look at Pattaya to see how degraded this country has become.

So why would you want to continue to place the country at this level? The collapse of global tourism is a golden opportunity to emulate what Greece did many decades ago. It got rid of trash tourism and chasing simple numbers of visitors - I am looking at you TAT - and went for higher revenue visitors who have more respect for the national culture.

So a gang of military "tourism experts" has the opportunity to break away from low grade tourism experts and shift the focus of this country away from being the lowest common denominator, that was established by the US military during the war in Vietnam, and make this country into a more civilised, culturally less debased destination. I only hope that they have the intellect to spot this huge opportunity.

Wishful thinking but just how are they going to retrain and employ the millions of 'service ladies' and millions more that benefit from their occupation?

 

Who will feed their families?

 

Ironically sex is one thing the Thais do well.

 

Play to your strengths I say.

 

Oh, I should point out that there was a sex-trade long before the Yanks arrived for the American War in Vietnam, and Thais were well known for their licentious nature, even back in the 18th and 19th century.

 

[lamyai3]

19 hours ago, JimmyTheMook said:

Time for another coup .

Sorry to rehash my earlier joke, but if his jug-eared brother leads it, they could call it the FA Coup. 

[lamyai3]

17 hours ago, samsensam said:

how come expat males who criticise women in their own country for being overweight and unattractive are more than likely to be unattractive and overweight themselves... ????

It's a strange paradox - I've been told on many occasions how hansum I am, yet my sister looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp...

 

 

Edited April 20, 2020 by lamyai3
Just kidding sis, ur lovely

[DrTuner]

25 minutes ago, brommers said:

Look at it this way, for decades the  Thai tourism industry itself has made Thailand into a bottom feeder by focusing on the most trashy and sleazy parts of tourism. You only have to look at Pattaya to see how degraded this country has become.

I know. "Family tourism". They should go back to the honest monger crowd.

[ParkerN]

Not the first time this chap has behaved badly, it won't be the last. Nepotism means he won't ever be held to account.

 

The Thais chose well when they accepted the last coup; this is one of the inevitable results. I have no sympathy for them, they deserve every plague that befalls them. It isn't as though they have no track record of putting up with soldiers misbehaving themselves.

 

Just think of it this way: probably the only difference between one brother and the other is that one is more careful about getting caught and will never even try to explain his hideous wealth.

 

 

Edited April 20, 2020 by ParkerN

[pattayadgw]

Good appointment for a dead industry....:)))