Red Shirts in Korat Gather to Welcome Thaksin at Don Mueang Airport

[jayboy]

1 hour ago, paddypower said:

I disagree.

Assuming that PT is giving the shaft to MFP,  I refer to the results of the election, at wilki, which translate into a country, roughly split down the middle. 

%'s of those casting votes (Ignoring the really small parties' %'s )

PT:   28.86

UTN 12.55

BT     3.00

        44.41

MFP 38.01

 

as far as the number of MP's elected, I don't quite understand how the ''List MP's '' system works. It sure screws up the results, when comparing the %'s of votes a party receives, v.v. the number of MP's elected. For example - BT got 3% of the votes and 14% of the 500 MP's elected.  who cares, I guess - most political systems stink 

I was referring to the percentage of Thais who are eager for political change which the electoral results partly reflect.Fifteen years ago I would have put the percentage higher for those more or less comfortable with the status quo, say 40%. What's changed - apart from the obvious point - is the near universal contempt for military interference in government but also and equally significant, the revolution in the thinking of the young - even the educated wealthy middle class.

 

All very subjective I agree and the resources and cunning of those entrenched in power shouldn't be underestimated.It's a long game.

Edited July 29, 2023 by jayboy

[Hunz Kittisak]

9 hours ago, jcmj said:

I’ll take Thaskin any day over what we have had for the past ten years. He was great for the foreigners. 

He was good for Thailand 

else the majority wouldn’t have kept voting for his party. Landslides victories in successive elections. 

[paddypower]

1 hour ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

He was good for Thailand 

else the majority wouldn’t have kept voting for his party. Landslides victories in successive elections. 

about as zenophobiac as any Thai - even more so because he was leading the country. YOuve forgotten some of his great sayings? ''the UN is not my uncle'' or - rejecting any offers of foreign aid after the 2004 tsunami? whilst we fools raised donations abroad?  egotistical mf'er.

[ThailandRyan]

Looks like Thaksin has decided not to arrive for his homecoming celebration looking for the link, but it was on the afternoon news we watched.

[anchadian]

50 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Looks like Thaksin has decided not to arrive for his homecoming celebration looking for the link, but it was on the afternoon news we watched.

Thaksin's daughter & PT PM candidate Paetongtarn on Sat lashes out at whistle blower Chuwit Kamolvisit who claims Fri night Thaksin cancelled his planner return. Paetongtarn posted on FB on TV 3 news host Sorrayuth S. the claims is "delusional".

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1685131386070749184

 

[ThailandRyan]

13 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Thaksin's daughter & PT PM candidate Paetongtarn on Sat lashes out at whistle blower Chuwit Kamolvisit who claims Fri night Thaksin cancelled his planner return. Paetongtarn posted on FB on TV 3 news host Sorrayuth S. the claims is "delusional".

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1685131386070749184

 

That was the report made on the news we heard, the report made by Chuwit

[bradiston]

15 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

That was the report made on the news we heard, the report made by Chuwit

Chuwit for PM! He's got all the qualifications. A CV to die for...

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuwit_Kamolvisit

Edited July 29, 2023 by bradiston

[Drop the dead donkey]

Niger.

the west is now sending a message to Thailand. They are sending a coup d’etat.

western governments are using Niger as a big wake up to Thailand’s un democratic rules and laws that seem to be happening.