And given Thai history, she be removed from office by way of a military coup in short order.

Just now, billd766 said:

Do you not remember free and fair democratic elections?

Aren't those what happen between military coups?  ????

37 minutes ago, connda said:

And given Thai history, she be removed from office by way of a military coup in short order.

5 minutes after she proposes an amnesty for her father and aunt.

 

12 hours ago, robblok said:

Let Thaksin come back do his time then he can take care of his family. Why would he have to get a free pass.

Oh it wouldn't be free.

 

That's for sure. ????

9 hours ago, kcpattaya said:

Superb!
It is always going to be better than the current administration.
80% of Thais will be delighted! 

Yes, but the wrong 80%. The 500 thais owning more than half of Thailands wealth are among the 20 %

OK, so they are all corrupt.
Thais can choose what kind of corruption they prefer.
I would prefer the less militaristic more business oriented corruption of the Thaksins. Seem to make people happier then authoritarian singing.
And she is definitly more easy on the eye than the present military clown.

13 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I guess it's possible she could become the next PM, assuming free and fair elections are ever held.

 

But if the Thai people elected her via the ballot box, it wouldn't be long before the army got the tanks out to "return happiness to the Thai people" again.

don't forget the F35 jet fighters too!! ????

Amazing how many people on this forum seem to be all in on the idea of military coups overthrowing legitimately elected people like Taksin 1 & 2 in favor of authoritarian dictators.   Sounds a lot like Trumpets trying to overthrow fair elections in USA .  

 

Let the Thai people vote for who THEY want and then let that person serve their term without being overthrown by a bunch of power hungry generals.

14 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I guess it's possible she could become the next PM, assuming free and fair elections are ever held.

 

But if the Thai people elected her via the ballot box, it wouldn't be long before the army got the tanks out to "return happiness to the Thai people" again.

"return happiness to (rich) Thai people".

17 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Prison is also for convicted criminals. Thaksin should come back and go to jail. He can show the nation that he respects the laws. But then, nobody expects honorable behavior from a thug. 

Like those currently in power who have done irreparable damage to the country

Lol cannot believe how green some of you lot are. Very strange. ????????????

9 hours ago, charmonman said:

He doesn’t need it; he just wants it, just like every other wealthy corrupt politician.

and the current lot of "leaders" they are living in penury? 

 

9 hours ago, billd766 said:

The last time and the time before when a Shinawatra was legally elected in a democratic vote the were deposed by military coups.

 

What Thailand needs is a clean, transparent and free democratic election.

 

What Thailand does NOT NEED is any more military coups. 

 

Then perhaps under a democratic civilian government the country will be able to move forward once again with people who KNOW what they are doing, in control. 

Thing is the Shins and the junta are two sides of the same coin. Though one might be less evil than the other both are self serving. Did she start talking about the people. No she talked about her dad wanting to come home. So its dad first then the rest. YL brought her government down with the amnesty. 

 

I agree with clean transparent election though and agree military coups are not the awnser but at the same time neither are the self serving shins. Maybe future forward, for the rest there is almost no hope for Thailand. They all switch sides are in it for themselves and throw some crumps to the masses. (still at the moment PT is the least evil or at least that is what i think but last time i thought the junta was not so bad either and i was wrong. So who knows)

1 hour ago, daveAustin said:

Like those currently in power who have done irreparable damage to the country

Lol cannot believe how green some of you lot are. Very strange. ????????????

I was here all the time when Thaksin and his family and his Chronis were in power. I also remember enough of the news from those years that he was all the time in the news with his corrupt schemes. And I remember when people gave flowers to the soldiers after the two coups.

If Thaksin would have been a honest politician then Thailand could be at least 10 years ahead and without coups and military government. They only took over to free Thailand and the Thai people from this criminal.

 

10 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

It's interesting that you seem to see something wrong with pointing out a completely false statement.  It's a pity that there aren't a few more posters here who prefer to see the truth published. 

 

Yingluck was not ousted by the coup, there can be no argument about that as she was not PM at the time.   What you see in your crystal ball about what may have happened in the future is irrelevant to the facts of the time.

Crystal balls don't come into it. Your position ignores all the background to the coup, the planning,the preparation, the blocking of the election to create the conditions to justify it. One of the main protagonists, Suthep Taungsuban (sic) spilled the beans about the whole business shortly afterwards.

 

Without considering and including the events leading up to and surrounding the coup, your statement, though true, is simply pedantry. It fails to address the fundamental premise that an elected government, standing for re-election, was removed by a military coup because it was on course to win that election.

Edited March 22, 20224 yr by herfiehandbag

17 hours ago, Mickmouse1 said:

She would win any election If & ONLY IF THE FAMILY RETURNS BILLIONS OF $$$$ BACK TO THE COUNTRY.

He doesn't have billions to return though... well maybe if the government returned the billions they stole from Thaksin's bank account's they froze.

19 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

They are probably cooking up some charge now to arrest her on as soon as she starts ????

Now that they are BFFs with the Saudis...I'd watch out for bone saws 

14 hours ago, scorecard said:

" He provided free healthcare for foreigners'  ,that was a good

thing, ..."

 

Can you expand on that please, been here well over 3 decades and I can't remember that.

All you needed was a yellow book, the next Government in power

cancelled this and tried to introduce a scheme of their own ,were

you paid 2,500 THB , it was operated by a company ,that there

was nothing I could find about, it lasted just a few weeks ,and that

was cancelled ,and everyone received their money back, less the

charge for health check.

 

Regards Worgeordie

 

I'm presuming that the posters on here who believe that the second election win by Thaksin was fair and just are either ill informed or in denial about what a fair and just election means.

Many of Thaksin's opponents, and indeed many who spoke out about him,  also 'conveniently' happened to be drug dealers, so where executed during his 'war on drugs'.

Around election time, red envelopes were flying around the villages of North Thailand to 'help the poor farmers', so definitely not a bribe then?

 

The current lot are no better but let's not make the Shins out to be the answer.

 

Edited March 22, 20224 yr by Bert got kinky

It will be up to the Thai people (well, sort of) to decide if they want her to be their next PM.  I guess that's if the current government will allow elections.  

If it does happen,he will have a ticket booked to get back.Once a law has passed he will not face any charges like his sister.Another puppet to follow his rules from within the family

If she gets in a law will be passed.no charges for him and his sister.They both be back  in thailand ASAP.Another puppet for him

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I was here all the time when Thaksin and his family and his Chronis were in power. I also remember enough of the news from those years that he was all the time in the news with his corrupt schemes. And I remember when people gave flowers to the soldiers after the two coups.

If Thaksin would have been a honest politician then Thailand could be at least 10 years ahead and without coups and military government. They only took over to free Thailand and the Thai people from this criminal.

 

Utterly naive!

I love it!  Love this so much.  After Prayut's and the military's big purge trying to eradicate every Thaksin stem and root, they might be back!  Comedy doesn't get any better than this!  Bravo Paetongtarn!  Love your red shirt!!!  Way to rub their noses in it!

22 minutes ago, bristolgeoff said:

If it does happen,he will have a ticket booked to get back.Once a law has passed he will not face any charges like his sister.Another puppet to follow his rules from within the family

Doubt they fly on commercial flights, unless it was in a suite

Posts with trolling miss spelling of Thaksin's name have been removed.  Please use the correct spelling of people's names when posting. 

 

Some other troll posts and replies have been removed.

4 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

14 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

It's interesting that you seem to see something wrong with pointing out a completely false statement.  It's a pity that there aren't a few more posters here who prefer to see the truth published. 

 

Yingluck was not ousted by the coup, there can be no argument about that as she was not PM at the time.   What you see in your crystal ball about what may have happened in the future is irrelevant to the facts of the time.

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Crystal balls don't come into it. Your position ignores all the background to the coup, the planning,the preparation, the blocking of the election to create the conditions to justify it. One of the main protagonists, Suthep Taungsuban (sic) spilled the beans about the whole business shortly afterwards.

 

Without considering and including the events leading up to and surrounding the coup, your statement, though true, is simply pedantry. It fails to address the fundamental premise that an elected government, standing for re-election, was removed by a military coup because it was on course to win that election.

"Crystal balls don't come into it".

I'm glad that you concede that after your bringing them into it.

 

The only comment I made was to state, correctly, that Yingluck was not ousted by the coup as she was not PM at the time.    If you want to derail my comment and discuss other aspects, go ahead, but do it with other posters who may be interested, I sure am not.

4 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

honest politician

Oxymoron if ever there was one....

25 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Crystal balls don't come into it".

I'm glad that you concede that after your bringing them into it.

 

The only comment I made was to state, correctly, that Yingluck was not ousted by the coup as she was not PM at the time.    If you want to derail my comment and discuss other aspects, go ahead, but do it with other posters who may be interested, I sure am not.

If you ignore the circumstances surrounding Yinglucks ousting, and the subsequent coup then your comment is basically irrelevant, unless of course (as it so often seems), you are merely trying to pick a fight! In which case I am not interested either, goodbye!

Bring it. The Shins are the choice of the people.

On 3/21/2022 at 11:56 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

What is worse? That Thaksin is willing to sacrifice one family member after the next for more power and more money? Or that those family members do what he wants? Or that people are willing to support any family member from Thaksin just because they are family members of Thaksin?

It's all bad.

When will the majority of Thai people start to support and elect honest competent people?

When will they understand that when they vote for corrupt incompetent people then they shouldn't be surprised if they have a corrupt incompetent government?

Who is it that as soon as someone calls corruption in the highest office, repeatedly calls out the army as the ONLY solution?

 

Who allows this cycle to persist?

 

Who is it that feeds the myth that Thailand's people aren't ready for democracy?

 

Who is it that stops any and all fledgling democratically elected Thai administrations going beyond that first step of the 'fair election' and actually learning how to do their job?

 

Who is it that doesn't allow the nation's social, political, legal and judicial systems to develop and mature so that any democratically elected but ultimately corrupt government functionary can be simply voted out of office, democratically?

 

The Thaksin argument is a red herring and it is getting old.

 

Those that persist in seeing Thai politics through the prism of Thaksin can't see the wood for the trees.