Thai workers left in the lurch: Government’s broken promise leaves evacuees stranded

[vangrop]

On 11/25/2023 at 1:57 PM, bannork said:

The government will act because this will damage Pheu Thai badly if left unattended to.

Nobody except a few relatives cares about these workers. Ask the GF she don't give a sh$t, she even doesn't know about Israel Hamas Palestina. So which damage are you talking about?

[Morch]

3 hours ago, vangrop said:

Nobody except a few relatives cares about these workers. Ask the GF she don't give a sh$t, she even doesn't know about Israel Hamas Palestina. So which damage are you talking about?

 

It might be more of a thing in some provinces/amphurs - where, traditionally,  supporters of the party hail from.

[Dogmatix]

PT is following in the fine tradition of the Yingluck government's rice pledging scam. Promised the money and got farmers to pledge all their jasmine rice to get cash they could use to buy sticky rice for their families to eat.  Only Yingluck dissolved parliament suddenly without giving her finance minister Kitirat time to set up funding for all of it through BAAC. As a caretaker government they no longer had the power to force BAAC to advance the money which was questionable legally even before. About 20 farmers committed suicide as a result and many more faced grim hardship with no money and nothing to eat. Meanwhile they made out like bandits on the crooked deals they arranged to sell the farmers' rice they didn't pay for to fake Chinese government departments. 

 

Just promise good things to poor rural folk and take political credit for it and move on without bothering to follow up to see that they get paid.