PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin was today (Dec.28) encouraged to disband the National Strategies Committee which could be otherwise virtually viewed as a living legacy of a former coup junta.

 

Move Forward MP Rangsiman Rome expressed his consent to the prime minister’s latest views of the 20-Year National Strategies as being predetermined to span too long a period of time whilst being too rigid and oblivious to change and volatility in modern world affairs and technologies.

 

Srettha has recently commented that the 20-Year National Strategies had been prepared by the old generations with intent to compel the young and future generations to strictly follow over the next couple of decades and that they should be substantially amended to better suit tomorrow’s domestic and global circumstances.

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

Move Forward MP Rangsiman Rome, left, and Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, right. Both photos: Thai Rath

 

Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2023-12-29

 

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6 hours ago, webfact said:

Srettha has recently commented that the 20-Year National Strategies had been prepared by the old generations with intent to compel the young and future generations to strictly follow over the next couple of decades and that they should be substantially amended to better suit tomorrow’s domestic and global circumstances.

And give the youth freedom... never.

8 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

And give the youth freedom... never.

Um, I think he's moving in the right direction but you don't get there in one big step.

 

Bangkok wasn't built in a day.

1 minute ago, mfd101 said:

Um, I think he's moving in the right direction but you don't get there in one big step.

 

Bangkok wasn't built in a day.

But it could sink in one.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

But it could sink in one.

Even that's going to take about 30 or 40 years.

Be careful, notions like this could trigger the Second Coming.

2 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Um, I think he's moving in the right direction but you don't get there in one big step.

 

Bangkok wasn't built in a day.

Albeit the 2014 Interim Constitution Charter created by the NCPO junta was practically created in a day. So any thing is possible.

Edited December 29, 20232 yr by Srikcir
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5 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Um, I think he's moving in the right direction but you don't get there in one big step.

 

Bangkok wasn't built in a day.

Being the suspicious cynic that I am, such proposals are flowery dressing for image purposes, less action that's taken for the good of the commons. 

Srettha is much akin to his predecessors - part and parcel of the club. 

Don't expect any corrective action, in this instance, to be changed or installed for the good of the country/people. 

That's not what they're in place for....

Anything and everything should be tossed into the trash heap that's related to the junta.

 

.... Including the Senate, former MP's, especially the "cowtow idiot extrordinaire" Anutin.

 

A bunch lifetime thugs who've bankrupted the nation. 

16 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Albeit the 2014 Interim Constitution Charter created by the NCPO junta was practically created in a day. So any thing is possible.

Well yes, but part of the final term assessment at the Thai Army Staff College is to write an Interim Constitution Charter, so all Generals have one in their portfolio.

 

The assessment also includes a live brainstorming session to come up with suitably Orwellian anacronyms for your proposed Junta.

 

18 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Um, I think he's moving in the right direction but you don't get there in one big step.

 

Bangkok wasn't built in a day.

Yes, but let us not take too long about it, a repeat of 2006 is always on the cards if the institutions are still present and powerful....

2 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

Well yes, but part of the final term assessment at the Thai Army Staff College is to write an Interim Constitution Charter, so all Generals have one in their portfolio.

 

The assessment also includes a live brainstorming session to come up with suitably Orwellian anacronyms for your proposed Junta.

 

Junta names always seem to contain the word "Peace" ... brought about by military force. 

23 hours ago, hotchilli said:

And give the youth freedom... never.

There was a song in the 1960s by the Who which aptly describes Thailand at the present.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=my+generation+lyrics&sca_esv=594529445&sxsrf=AM9HkKmOGHIuL11db_eL33229cs4YA2X2g%3A1703912537916&ei=WaSPZYW9N4SaseMPy9-XiAU&oq=my+generation&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

 

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
Why don't you all f-fade away (talkin' 'bout my generation)
Don't try to dig what we all s-s-s-say (talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to 'cause a big s-s-sensation (talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation (talkin' 'bout my generation)
My generation
This is my generation, baby
Why don't you all f-fade away (talkin' 'bout my generation)
And don't try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to 'cause a b-big s-s-sensation (talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation (talkin' 'bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My my my generation
People try to put us d-down (talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin' 'bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (talkin' 'bout my generation)

 

This, in my opinion, is the most relevant line.

 

Why don't you all f-fade away

 

Talking about the current generation of "leadership". 

 

Young people of all generations, mine was the 1960s, want change.

 

The problem is that most of them have different ideas about what changes they want, and sadly there are very few among them who know how to make the changes.

Edited December 30, 20232 yr by billd766
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2 hours ago, billd766 said:

There was a song in the 1960s by the Who which aptly describes Thailand at the present.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=my+generation+lyrics&sca_esv=594529445&sxsrf=AM9HkKmOGHIuL11db_eL33229cs4YA2X2g%3A1703912537916&ei=WaSPZYW9N4SaseMPy9-XiAU&oq=my+generation&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

 

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
Why don't you all f-fade away (talkin' 'bout my generation)
Don't try to dig what we all s-s-s-say (talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to 'cause a big s-s-sensation (talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation (talkin' 'bout my generation)
My generation
This is my generation, baby
Why don't you all f-fade away (talkin' 'bout my generation)
And don't try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm not trying to 'cause a b-big s-s-sensation (talkin' 'bout my generation)
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation (talkin' 'bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My my my generation
People try to put us d-down (talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin' 'bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (talkin' 'bout my generation)

 

This, in my opinion, is the most relevant line.

 

Why don't you all f-fade away

 

Talking about the current generation of "leadership". 

 

Young people of all generations, mine was the 1960s, want change.

 

The problem is that most of them have different ideas about what changes they want, and sadly there are very few among them who know how to make the changes.

For reasons too complicated to go into I was quite badly injured in the army at the end of the 80s. I could have taken a discharge on medical grounds, but I wanted to stay in. The army, realising that full recovery would take a couple of years sent me to University to study as a mature student. They really weren't bothered about what I studied, as long I was able to live in a barracks where I could do lots of physiotherapy. I chose to do media studies. I opted to major in "Radio", realising early on that I had the face for radio.

 

One of the first practical assignments (the academic part of the course was anthropology) was to edit a copy of that song, cutting out all the stutters! That was in the days of reel to reel tape, marked with a chinograph pencil, cut with a single edged razor blade, and joined at the edits with editing tape. You had to not be able to tell where the edits where. It was a nightmare, took hours and hours!

Edited December 30, 20232 yr by herfiehandbag

7 hours ago, Srikcir said:

Junta names always seem to contain the word "Peace" ... brought about by military force. 

I think it's the same reason a lot of dictatorships have Democratic in their name. Maybe also, a bit like the Prada Gucci ect names on fake goods. The name is there but there's little substance behind it.

Settha became PM courtesy of the unelected senators and Prayud's party.

He'll make noises but any meaningful change is out of his hands.

 

 

and the senators while you're at it

1 hour ago, sikishrory said:

and the senators while you're at it

Present batch of appointed senators will have their term expired in May. Kind of self dissolution. Good riddance 

17 hours ago, bannork said:

Settha became PM courtesy of the unelected senators and Prayud's party.

He'll make noises but any meaningful change is out of his hands.

 

 

I guess the courtesy comes from a higher level.

21 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Present batch of appointed senators will have their term expired in May. Kind of self dissolution. Good riddance 

I'll believe it when I see it

On 12/29/2023 at 6:29 AM, webfact said:

Srettha has recently commented that the 20-Year National Strategies had been prepared by the old generations with intent to compel the young and future generations to strictly follow over the next couple of decades and that they should be substantially amended to better suit tomorrow’s domestic and global circumstances.

Good luck with the senate agreeing to that.

46 minutes ago, sikishrory said:

I'll believe it when I see it

If you have comprehensive understanding of the Constitution being the supreme law of the country, you will agree that the appointed senators will have to go when their 5 years tenure expire in May. 

42 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Good luck with the senate agreeing to that.

THB 100,000/month

But the junta is part of the government.