It has been almost a month since former Thai prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha left the public eye, when he left office in late August.

 

The country now has new leader, Srettha Thavisin, and the media is dominated by stories of the new government. Some may, however, be wondering how Prayut, who governed the country for nine years, is doing.

 

Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana, a former PM Office minister under in the Prayut administration, has the answer. He posted on his Facebook page today (Friday) about a recent visit to Prayut’s home.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-09-22

 

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1 minute ago, snoop1130 said:

Some may, however, be wondering how Prayut, who governed the country for nine years, is doing.

 

I'm not, and none of my Thai friends, family and work colleagues are either ???? 

 

Just hoping for him to fade into history ... (or oblivion)

????

uncle who......gives a flying .....

enjoying his ill gotten gains?

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Some may, however, be wondering how Prayut, who governed the country for nine years, is doing.

What, no maid to iron his shirt... times must be tough.

40 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

What, no maid to iron his shirt... times must be tough.

Not surrounded by young conscripts to do his every wish?

Keeping up standards - an expensive looking watch on each wrist I see!

7 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Not surrounded by young conscripts to do his every wish?

Sitting at home all day reading a good book.. 

Bangkok Bank, Kasikorn, GSB

2 hours ago, scorecard said:

Not surrounded by young conscripts to do his every wish?

They are busy attending to his every wish! No time for photo ops for them!

Miss him little bit, as there is less times for laughs in the news nowadays

(Yawn)

This may sound crazy but I have to wonder if the country is any better off with this mickey mouse club they have now or when he was in power.

 

Time will tell but at least he was ot openly spending so much money on such stupidity.

54 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

This may sound crazy but I have to wonder if the country is any better off with this mickey mouse club they have now or when he was in power.

 

Time will tell but at least he was ot openly spending so much money on such stupidity.

At least he didn't threaten to tax our overseas savings and pensions.

13 hours ago, d4dang said:

enjoying his ill gotten gains?

Will he NOW declare ALL his assets as required under the law that he ignored after he committed a coup, and stole the entire country at the point of a gun?

 

I, for one, will not be holding my breath.

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Some may, however, be wondering how Prayut, who governed the country for nine years, is doing.

And some others might be wondering why he hasn't been locked up yet 

9 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

Keeping up standards - an expensive looking watch on each wrist I see!

Borrowed from the Brown Bladder.....

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

And some others might be wondering why he hasn't been locked up yet 

That's easy. He is still in power 

27 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

That's easy. He is still in power 

Possible that he and his ilk are still pulling influential strings in one capacity or another. 

Remembering that the players might appear to be slightly adjusted, but the overall theatre remain the same.

I say Good riddance to bad rubbish! 

...He posted on his Facebook page today (Friday) about a recent visit to Prayut’s home.

 

Is it his home, or is it misappropriated government property?

18 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

This may sound crazy but I have to wonder if the country is any better off with this mickey mouse club they have now or when he was in power.

 

Time will tell but at least he was ot openly spending so much money on such stupidity.

Reducing a few fuel prices and electricity cost is a step or two towards popularity 

23 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

This may sound crazy but I have to wonder if the country is any better off with this mickey mouse club they have now or when he was in power.

 

Time will tell but at least he was ot openly spending so much money on such stupidity.

The talent pool is pretty shallow for competent people here in our beloved Thailand.

 

When you do find one, they often get led astray by the culture of corruption that is so prevalent. 

7 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Reducing a few fuel prices and electricity cost is a step or two towards popularity 

The thing that Thais ddo not realize is that lowering the Fuel, electric, BTS costs is nice sounding but really people forget that someone has to pay the difference.  

 

PTT still has to pay the market price. so it works like this     : lower price at pump + more income tax = fuel price

lower electric  price people pay + tax dollars or less maintenance of the system

BTS  the red line is an easy drop because the line is brand new, BUT it is still going to cost 80 million baht loss a year.  Who is going to pay that simple taxpayers that don't use the system as well as those that do?

 

People are still going to pay the same price if not more, just in a different way.

 

At least Uncle Tu kept the deficit lower.

 

Imagine if Srettha instead of giving everyone 10 k he took that money and added it to people who are retired and need the money.

 

 

39 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

...Imagine if Srettha instead of giving everyone 10 k he took that money and added it to people who are retired and need the money.

You wouldn't happen to be of retirement age would you?

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

41 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

The thing that Thais ddo not realize is that lowering the Fuel, electric, BTS costs is nice sounding but really people forget that someone has to pay the difference.  

 

PTT still has to pay the market price. so it works like this     : lower price at pump + more income tax = fuel price

lower electric  price people pay + tax dollars or less maintenance of the system

BTS  the red line is an easy drop because the line is brand new, BUT it is still going to cost 80 million baht loss a year.  Who is going to pay that simple taxpayers that don't use the system as well as those that do?

 

People are still going to pay the same price if not more, just in a different way.

 

At least Uncle Tu kept the deficit lower.

 

Imagine if Srettha instead of giving everyone 10 k he took that money and added it to people who are retired and need the money.

Nonsense.

Subsidies everyday necessities and tax the excesses.

Tax commercial plots and underdeveloped land to pay for the subsidies i.e. redistribute the highly concentrated wealth downwards.

 

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

The thing that Thais ddo not realize is that lowering the Fuel, electric, BTS costs is nice sounding but really people forget that someone has to pay the difference.

The original BTS is still billions of Baht in debt. 

6 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

The talent pool is pretty shallow for competent people here in our beloved Thailand.

 

When you do find one, they often get led astray by the culture of corruption that is so prevalent. 

On the contrary, the talent pool is far from being shallow or limited. Plenty of qualified and competent folks afield, but the systems are purposely designed to align with the oligarchical elite and prevent anything "different" to be present - a is the case everywhere. 

 

Ever notice that it's the same circle [the world over] holding reigns of power cycle in and cycle out? 

3 hours ago, MrMojoRisin said:

You wouldn't happen to be of retirement age would you?

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

Yeah but I am not Thai.  Part of the reason I am living here is my pension goes farther than it would in Canada.

The pension system here is stil in the 1970's when the families were more nuclear.  The oldest son and wife worked, and his mother and father stayed with them and looked after the family.  Now, with the cost of living and expenses that no longer is as feasible.  

 

3 hours ago, MrMojoRisin said:

Nonsense.

Subsidies everyday necessities and tax the excesses.

Tax commercial plots and underdeveloped land to pay for the subsidies i.e. redistribute the highly concentrated wealth downwards.

 

I know you have been in the country long enough that even you do not believe what you wrote could ever happen under the present Thai system or for that matter, I think, under an MFP government.  Any attempt at that would immediately force a coup paid for by the elites that own all the property you are talking about.

 

But even then you are stil agreeing with me because people that do not use the BTS are going to have to pay more taxes.  Remember none of the smart owners own any of the land it is owned by a company which may pay a little more but will write it off.  The people that screwed in the deal of property assessment are the middle class here just as in most Western societies.

3 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

The original BTS is still billions of Baht in debt. 

and that is not the new part.  The interesting thing is when they sold the idea of the BTS and new lines it was with the promise that they would recoup the casts through ridership and advertising.