Been reading through some posts lately, even posted to a few. For example, the old dual pricing chestnut - someone always says something along the lines of, "It only affect expats/non-Thai residents/etc - there's no political mileage in changing anything...".

This sounds fair at first, but then I sat back and thought that most governments around the free world do actually pass laws and amendments to protect non-voters all the time - whether its children, asylum seekers, tourists, immigrants or whatever, but these laws do happen and parliamentary time is given over to the discussion.

So, this got me thinking further, are the people that say such things as above really in the know or is it just a flippant remark - and assumption. Does Thailand's government only address popular issues? Does it actually give any Parliamentary time/effort into issues that do not directly affect voters (as the voters would see it)? Are only the most important issues looked at and everything else, even simple to fix, but lesser issues, simply ignored and left to the day-to-day civil servants to work-around and/or make personal calls all the time?

I made it a poll too to get some gauge of feeling here - I'd prefer if expats rather than tourists voted, but whatever - anyways, feel free to post your views, I may even post mine later too

Thanks for playing.

No doubt we will have the reds/yellows coming out to say how good their team is and how <deleted> the other team is.

To be honest I think that the same could be asked of any government, not just red/yellow/blue or whatever in Thailand, but any government in the world.

Edited November 2, 200916 yr by Moonrakers

No doubt we will have the reds/yellows coming out to say how good their team is and how <deleted> the other team is.

To be honest I think that the same could be asked of any government, not just red/yellow/blue or whatever in Thailand, but any government in the world.

I hope not - I was rather more hoping for generalised comments - across the board - we have had a few governments here in the last decade or so (some very short lived I know).

As to the second paragraph: This was kind of the point - it is expected of ANY government, and it is visible in most that I have bothered to read about or lived under. It doesn't seem to be here though. Whether its just that the media ignores it or that the government does, I don't know - hence why I am asking.