Thaksin comes out to call on Prayut to step down ahead of 8-year term to avoid damaging judiciary

[Purdey]

I agree with people here who say Thaksin should shut up. He won elections without ever doing  anything for Thailand. Just grabbed everything for himself. I don't care if he created village-managed microcredit development funds, low-interest agricultural loans, direct injections of cash into village development funds (the SML scheme), infrastructure development, and the One Tambon One Product (OTOP), rural small and medium enterprise development program.
I don't see why people kept voting for him when he did nothing for the country but grow 
GDP from THB4.9 trillion at the end of 2001 to THB7.1 trillion at the end of 2006. 
It is obviously a joke that between 2000 and 2004, income in the poorest part of the country, the northeast, rose 40% while nationwide poverty fell from 21.3% to 11.3%. bah humbug, poppycock!

It must be a lie that Thaksin balanced the national budget, producing fiscal surpluses for 2003 to 2005. Show me the receipts!

I mean, for god's sake, who cares if lottery sales of approximately 70 billion baht (US$2 billion) were used for social projects, including the "One District, One Scholarship" program which provided one student from a low-income family in each district with a scholarship to study overseas. it's nuts that people love him for that and voted overwhelmingly for him.

Even more bizarre, he did nothing for people other than initiate subsidized universal health care and low-cost universal access to anti-retroviral HIV medication (ARVs). 

Like Obamacare, but not really, following governments tried to ban Thaksin's 30-baht/visit universal healthcare program but were prevented by ordinary people. So what if the program helped increase access to healthcare from 76% of the population to 96% of the population? So what? No one thinks that is important if he is a criminal.
Yes stupid people think he was a hero to some for ensuring the number of people living with HIV/AIDS as well as the overall prevalence rate noticeably declined, as fewer were being infected. Pshaw! Can't understand why he was so popular!

He was so corrupt he introduced reforms included learning reform and related curricular decentralization, mostly through greater use of holistic education and less use of rote learning. But people like rote learning, don't they? Deserves to never be in office again for that.

What was his point in intiating a policy to encourage renewable energy and energy conservation? It was great that Thaksin-era energy policies were reversed following the 2006 coup.

So all of us in ASEAN Now should be constantly shocked he won elections by landslides. There was no reason for it.

Rant over.

[The Hammer2021]

As usual Thaksin is right and represents the views of the people.

[NoshowJones]

5 hours ago, billd766 said:

Thaksin and his sister Yingluck were elected by a free and fair election by the people of Thailand.

 

Any military coup is treason against the elected government.

 

Yingluck was still the PM of a caretaker government and was planning the next free and fair election for the Thai people. As for the outstanding charges against them both, they were brought as a result of 2 military coups.

 

What I find difficult to understand is that not one member of any military coup (and Thailand has had many) has ever been brought to a trial.

Soldiers and guns!

[NoshowJones]

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

does this guy ever shut up ....  he reminds me of an overdue tax bill .... it just never goes away   !!

Yes! Just like your avatar.

[billd766]

3 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

Totally agree.

The only thing that is worse than Thaksin are the Thaksin fan boys on this forum, they all seem to have rose red coloured testicles spectacles. ????

 

It is still better to have free and fair elections for the Thai people to make their choice than military coup after coup by the generals in green.

 

Thaksin could have been voted out, something that Prayuth ensured will not happen to him.

[herfiehandbag]

10 hours ago, RandiRona said:

Thaksin

Somchai (his brother in law)

Yingluck (sister)

Ah yes, they were the elected ones weren't they?

[ramrod711]

10 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

If he is a criminal why is he not under arrest and still free to travel where he wishes outside of Thailand?

 

????

Perhaps he has some of the same friends as the Red Bull heir.

[OneMoreFarang]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaksin Shinawatra came out to recommend [...] could damage the reputation of the judiciary

The criminal fugitive makes recommendation regarding the judiciary. What a joke!

Come Thaksin, go to jail! And bring your little criminal sister with you.

And after you stayed in jail for all the crimes you did, then you can make recommendations.

Until then: Shut up!

 

[luckyblock token]

Taksin was the best PM in thai history ever.

let the people vote in a fair election and everybody will see the result

[Excel]

1 minute ago, luckyblock token said:

Taksin was the best PM in thai history ever.

let the people vote in a fair election and everybody will see the result

You re spot on there and also the first PM whose government ever paid back an IMF loan early. Great guy.

[Bert got kinky]

1 hour ago, Purdey said:

I agree with people here who say Thaksin should shut up. He won elections without ever doing  anything for Thailand. Just grabbed everything for himself. I don't care if he created village-managed microcredit development funds, low-interest agricultural loans, direct injections of cash into village development funds (the SML scheme), infrastructure development, and the One Tambon One Product (OTOP), rural small and medium enterprise development program.
I don't see why people kept voting for him when he did nothing for the country but grow 
GDP from THB4.9 trillion at the end of 2001 to THB7.1 trillion at the end of 2006. 
It is obviously a joke that between 2000 and 2004, income in the poorest part of the country, the northeast, rose 40% while nationwide poverty fell from 21.3% to 11.3%. bah humbug, poppycock!

It must be a lie that Thaksin balanced the national budget, producing fiscal surpluses for 2003 to 2005. Show me the receipts!

I mean, for god's sake, who cares if lottery sales of approximately 70 billion baht (US$2 billion) were used for social projects, including the "One District, One Scholarship" program which provided one student from a low-income family in each district with a scholarship to study overseas. it's nuts that people love him for that and voted overwhelmingly for him.

Even more bizarre, he did nothing for people other than initiate subsidized universal health care and low-cost universal access to anti-retroviral HIV medication (ARVs). 

Like Obamacare, but not really, following governments tried to ban Thaksin's 30-baht/visit universal healthcare program but were prevented by ordinary people. So what if the program helped increase access to healthcare from 76% of the population to 96% of the population? So what? No one thinks that is important if he is a criminal.
Yes stupid people think he was a hero to some for ensuring the number of people living with HIV/AIDS as well as the overall prevalence rate noticeably declined, as fewer were being infected. Pshaw! Can't understand why he was so popular!

He was so corrupt he introduced reforms included learning reform and related curricular decentralization, mostly through greater use of holistic education and less use of rote learning. But people like rote learning, don't they? Deserves to never be in office again for that.

What was his point in intiating a policy to encourage renewable energy and energy conservation? It was great that Thaksin-era energy policies were reversed following the 2006 coup.

So all of us in ASEAN Now should be constantly shocked he won elections by landslides. There was no reason for it.

Rant over.

You forgot to mention ripping off the country, tax evasion and his extrajudicial murders.

 

[JingerBen]

The Thaksin amen corner is out in force and in fine form on this thread.

Another round of Kool-Aid for all... your throats must be dry from bawling his praises.

[steven100]

1 hour ago, possum1931 said:

Yes! Just like your avatar.

oh stop rabbiting on and go and get on the p_iss  ....  it'll do you good   !!!

[BangkokReady]

12 hours ago, webfact said:

“After 8-years in power, he (Prayut) should step down and not allow this issue to reach the courts, because if the court finds ways to justify having him to continue, it would be damaging to the judiciary and the system,”

Thaksin added to the damage and also benefited from the general damaged state.

[BangkokReady]

52 minutes ago, luckyblock token said:

Taksin was the best PM in thai history ever.

let the people vote in a fair election and everybody will see the result

He was never elected by fair election previously.  What makes you so sure he would be elected if he was to face one?

[BangkokReady]

6 hours ago, billd766 said:

Thaksin and his sister Yingluck were elected by a free and fair election by the people of Thailand.

 

Yingluck was still the PM of a caretaker government and was planning the next free and fair election for the Thai people. As for the outstanding charges against them both, they were brought as a result of 2 military coups.

You appear not to understand what a "free and fair election" is.

[billd766]

2 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

You forgot to mention ripping off the country, tax evasion and his extrajudicial murders.

 

Don't forget those naughty soldiers firing into a temple and killing the nurse will you.

 

And if you think the current lot are whiter than white and are squeaky clean then I pity you.

 

Do you think that the bomb/mine detectors really worked, or the army blimp was a great buy? How about the aircraft carrier with no aircraft, or the submarines with no engines or perhaps the F35?

 

And you think that Thaksin was ripping the country off?

[billd766]

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

He was never elected by fair election previously.  What makes you so sure he would be elected if he was to face one?

If he wasn't elected by a free and fair election please tell us why he was elected for his second term winning an overall majority in the house?

 

 

1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

You appear not to understand what a "free and fair election" is.

You can't believe that the last election was anything but free and fair.

 

Elected party leaders being banned. Political parties being disbanded and over 6 million voters disenfranchised.

 

Not to mention the Election Commission breaking its own rules and the law by changing the party list rules so that minnow parties could get party list seats.

 

If you actually do believe that I am glad that you had/have no vote in Thailand elections.

[MrMojoRisin]

8 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

You forgot to mention ripping off the country, tax evasion and his extrajudicial murders.

 

Your response to a very extensive, factual list of Thaksin’s accomplishments is to regurgitate nonsense junta / anti-democracy / semi-fascist propaganda.

 

????????????

 

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

 

https://www.britannica.com/science/Dunning-Kruger-effect

 

 

 

 

[Andycoops]

Thaksin is clearly out of touch the judiciary here is just a nodding dog for the government and has completely lost any form of independence and justice making decisions are a shambles.

[Excel]

2 minutes ago, Andycoops said:

Thaksin is clearly out of touch the judiciary here is just a nodding dog for the government and has completely lost any form of independence and justice making decisions are a shambles.

Thaksin is no doubt fully aware of that given the persecution he and his family received and  continues to receive by the Thai judiciary at the behest of the current PM and his ultra corrupt cronies.

[hotchilli]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Prayut, who is facing mounting calls to step down ahead of the 8-year term approaches on August 24, has been adamant on not stepping down as he and his entourage feel that the date from which the 8-year term should be counted should be from the date that the 2017 constitution was signed off by HM the King on April 6, 2017.

Twists and turns... he has more moves than a girl up a pole in Pattaya.

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, KannikaP said:

How many Thaksin PMs have there been?

Still counting...

[2baht]

22 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

1. Is Thaksin still relevant? 

He should be the poster boy for black hair dye!

[zzaa09]

11 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

As usual Thaksin is right and represents the views of the people.

The view of a very small circle. 

[zzaa09]

8 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Twists and turns... he has more moves than a girl up a pole in Pattaya.

He's gotta another week...

We should be getting giddy regarding the speculative affair, waiting to see what they come up with next. 

 

Wonder what the anointed one has up his sleeve.....

[Bert got kinky]

8 hours ago, billd766 said:

Don't forget those naughty soldiers firing into a temple and killing the nurse will you.

 

And if you think the current lot are whiter than white and are squeaky clean then I pity you.

 

Do you think that the bomb/mine detectors really worked, or the army blimp was a great buy? How about the aircraft carrier with no aircraft, or the submarines with no engines or perhaps the F35?

 

And you think that Thaksin was ripping the country off?

 

I did not state that I thought the current lot are whiter than white, I did not even mention the other lot on this thread (at no time, never), please stop trying to push my beliefs towards ANY political party.

They are all as bad as each other.

 

Just because this lot are crooked, it does not give Thaksin the right to a soapbox to spout about the country that he previously raped.

 

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

Just because this lot are crooked, it does not give Thaksin the right to a soapbox to spout about the country that he previously raped.

 

Oh I don't know... he is Thai and an ex-PM. Perhaps has more right to spout off than all the talking heads on this forum!

[Bert got kinky]

1 hour ago, MrMojoRisin said:

Your response to a very extensive, factual list of Thaksin’s accomplishments is to regurgitate nonsense junta / anti-democracy / semi-fascist propaganda.

 

????????????

 

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

 

https://www.britannica.com/science/Dunning-Kruger-effect

 

 

 

 

 

Are you really trying to deny these things happened?

 

 

[Bert got kinky]

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Oh I don't know... he is Thai and an ex-PM. Perhaps has more right to spout off than all the talking heads on this forum!

he is Thai

Tony Woodsome does not sound like a typical Thai name to me.

 

Edited August 17, 2022 by Bert got kinky