And he says that if the election goes significantly against his party, and he has clearly led them to defeat, then he will accept responsibility & resign as leader of the Democratic Party. Not something a power-mad puppet or clone would say.

How so? If the puppeteer's puppet loses the election, he will obviously replace the puppet. Makes no sense in keeping the show going with the same puppet that didn't win you the election.

In which case, if you were right about PM-Abhisit being a puppet, the puppeteer (who's that ?) would order his party to replace the leader. A recent example of this might be Thaksin's PPP seizing the opportunity to replace PM-Samak with PM-Somchai in the summer of 2008.

Since you're wrong, it is PM-Abhisit himself who has promised to resign as party-leader, if he is found to have led his party to a significant defeat. Thus demonstrating that he has free-will, and would jump, not need to be pushed by anybody.

One might equally speculate as to what Ms Yingluck might do, if the PTP under 'her' leadership were to fail to achieve the 300-MPs or landslide-result, which others in her party confidently predict, would she also be permitted to resign the leadership ?

But that speculation would be to wander way-off the topic of this thread, which is PM-Abhisit's concerns about corruption, which he freely raises, because he appears to be rather more honest than the average Thai politician. Unless you have another theory, to answer MrChangers's original question ?

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He could start with a website like ipaidabribe.com in India, but maybe the Thai network couldn't handle the traffic

Hey....He's in charge. Stop passing the baht. If there's corruption, than the baht stops with him.

Agreed. I mean <deleted>?! Where's he been for the past 'two years'? And his remedy? Pretty please stop paying bribes with sugar on top. What a completely inept gutless bloody milksop.

And No, I am in no way advocating another impotent 'crackdown' in the way of shooting people on the streets (picture if you will, bent police officers and government officials slumped over their desks in pools of blood), and if not, why not, plenty of photographs of poorly dressed people being splashed all over the local papers during Taksin's war on drugs.

Just a handful of those ACCEPTING bribes being handed down long custodial sentences would be a very good start. What's this boy afraid of? Hmmmm ...?

I wouldn't think he is afraid of anyone, put yourself in his place . So you would start by sacking the military-firing the police, and all the big mafia business to stop corruption forthwith. He is the P.M. in Thailand. NOT ZIMBABWE . In a coalition government. EASY is IT. or would you prefer WHAT. lovely quick sensible remedy ???

I can assure you that there is NO corruption under the leadership of Mark, as he is 100% clean. Unlike those Thaksin days, even traffic police take bribe for running a red light, I swear.