My Speech In Mongolia Summed Up Lessons Learnt, Yingluck Says

[Lite Beer]

My speech in Mongolia summed up lessons learnt, Yingluck says
The Nation on Sunday

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday defended a speech she made on Thai democracy and the 2006 coup during her recent trip to Mongolia, saying she had simply offered lessons learned from the country's recent past.

Yingluck made the comments on her weekly television programme on government-run Channel 11.

The premier stressed that people should work together to achieve peace and reconciliation, as she did not wish to see a recurrence of the bloodshed and pain that occurred in 2010.

"How can we enable everyone to move forward and co-exist and see peace and reconciliation for the nation? It is important and a big issue for the country to be able to move forward," the prime minister said.

On charter amendment, Yingluck sought to assure the public by saying that the move will strengthen democracy.

Regarding her trip to Mongolia, the prime minister said it helped forge closer economic ties between the two nations and stressed that her visit was the first by a Thai prime minister in the 39-year history of bilateral relations. Mongolia, she said, is endowed with a wealth of natural resources. She took with her business leaders from the private sector in the areas of energy, agriculture, finance, education and health to explore opportunities in the country, and has set a target of doubling trade between the two nations within three years.

The premier said her Mongolian counterpart had also inquired about the possibility of establishing a direct air link between the two countries to facilitate trade and investment.

-- The Nation 2013-05-05

[Robby nz]

"How can we enable everyone to move forward and co-exist and see peace and reconciliation for the nation?

The first step lady might be to call off your thugs who are sitting in front of the court house and accept the authority of the courts.

The second would be to denounce the crim on the run who is running you and the country and withdraw his passport.

Then you could allow free speech, particularly from your political opponents (see other story on Yasathon).

Then you could apologise for the speech you are now defending.

And then..........the list goes on.

[Locationthailand]

Still trying to justify the speech someone else wrote for her? Give it up. FAIL

[waza]

"The premier stressed that people should work together to achieve peace and reconciliation........How can we enable everyone to move forward and co-exist and see peace and reconciliation for the nation?...............On charter amendment, Yingluck sought to assure the public by saying that the move will strengthen democracy."

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Edited May 5, 2013 by waza

[whybother]

"summed up lessons learnt"

Lessons on how to lie??

Sent from my Phone.

[Thai at Heart]

Lesson is, if you are going to break the law in Thailand make sure you don't run out of friends in high places.

[OzMick]

Yingluk could use a few lessons herself. May I suggest:

Ethics - Honesty and Credibility 101

Political Science -Parliamentary Attendance 101

Business - Supply, Demand and Pricing 101

Psychology - Recognising Sociopaths Amongst Your Friends and Family 101

It appears that she would need some remedial assistance with all of the above.

[Ricardo]

One other lesson to learn, is perhaps to be less obvious, when your family tries to take over the country ?

[moe666]

Listen counterpart as soon as we pass changes that will allow us to sign trade agreements with you without that pesky approval from parliament. Our family I mean Thailand will take as much of what ever you have for sale

[bigbamboo]

Obviously KY has not learnt her lessons. She quite rightly wants Thailand to pull together and put it's differences aside but then launches into a public whinge on behalf of her brother which is guaranteeed to have exactly the opposite effect.

[ridkun]

I agree that the speech was a great summed-up, though it was pretty much a summed-up the whole propaganda they have been preaching to the red shirts rather than the real lesson. The real lesson she, PT and red shirts have yet to learnt after all is that they, or any majorities, are not the sole owner of this country and cannot act as such.

[Moruya]

When the honeymoon is over........

[NongKhaiKid]

Still trying to justify the speech someone else wrote for her? Give it up. FAIL

I'm surprised she said anything about learning lessons as they way her brother, she, her government, the party and the reds act they are infallible and never do anything wrong although Mr. T may quietly think to himself he did make a few mistakes so next time it's " no more Mr. nice guy ".

[rametindallas]

Ms. Yingluck – The True PM™ keeps trying to explain what she said/meant but the story keeps changing. It keeps changing because she doesn't truly know what she said/meant because she didn't write that speech; she just read it. Anyone who believes Dr. Thaksin's youngest sister is in charge of the government has been living in a cave or is delusional. Ms. Yingluck is not allowed to have an original thought even if she wanted to. Anyone who holds her responsible or expects her to do the right thing is believing Punch and Judy are real people when they are puppets. Ignore this woman and where you see 'Yingluck did' or Yingluck said' replace it with 'Thaksin did' or Thaksin said' and the same with the Puea Thai party; it is Thaksin's party. Think Wizard of Oz but in this case DO pay attention to the man behind the curtain. In my opinion he is responsible for 90% of the strife/discord since he came into office.

[RadKiter]

Right on Yingluck!! Excellent speech Of course the right-wing and royalists hate to hear the truth. They could not care less about Democracy for Thailand as the status quo suits them just fine. They've been hard at work erasing Thailand's 1932 revolution from the people's memory and rewriting history ever since.

Edited May 5, 2013 by RadKiter

[Pimay1]

Right on Yingluck!! Excellent speech Of course the right-wing and royalists hate to hear the truth. They could not care less about Democracy for Thailand as the status quo suits them just fine. They've been hard at work erasing Thailand's 1932 revolution from the people's memory and rewriting history ever since.

Great to see satire posts. We sure need a satire icon.

[scorecard]

Ms. Yingluck – The True PM™ keeps trying to explain what she said/meant but the story keeps changing. It keeps changing because she doesn't truly know what she said/meant because she didn't write that speech; she just read it. Anyone who believes Dr. Thaksin's youngest sister is in charge of the government has been living in a cave or is delusional. Ms. Yingluck is not allowed to have an original thought even if she wanted to. Anyone who holds her responsible or expects her to do the right thing is believing Punch and Judy are real people when they are puppets. Ignore this woman and where you see 'Yingluck did' or Yingluck said' replace it with 'Thaksin did' or Thaksin said' and the same with the Puea Thai party; it is Thaksin's party. Think Wizard of Oz but in this case DO pay attention to the man behind the curtain. In my opinion he is responsible for 90% of the strife/discord since he came into office.

Thaksin's party = Thaksin's 'Get Rich Quick Club'.

- Criteria to join, none. But lack of knowledge, no experience and no insight help, no morals also a plus.

- Pay your dues, say yes and no where prompted, say nothing more, expect your chance at the

trough and big dividends.

Edited May 5, 2013 by scorecard

[AleG]

Right on Yingluck!! Excellent speech Of course the right-wing and royalists hate to hear the truth. They could not care less about Democracy for Thailand as the status quo suits them just fine. They've been hard at work erasing Thailand's 1932 revolution from the people's memory and rewriting history ever since.

That would had been a coup d' etat, wouldn't it?

[Roadman]

"How can we enable everyone to move forward and co-exist and see peace and reconciliation for the nation?

The first step lady might be to call off your thugs who are sitting in front of the court house and accept the authority of the courts.

The second would be to denounce the crim on the run who is running you and the country and withdraw his passport.

Then you could allow free speech, particularly from your political opponents (see other story on Yasathon).

Then you could apologise for the speech you are now defending.

Well said..

And then..........the list goes on.

[Siripon]

Yingluk and all red shirts should think why did the coup happen and why did so many who opposed the military in 1992 welcome them in 2006.

The insane autocracy and arrogance of her brother is the answer

It seems she has learnt nothing.

[dominique355]

Her next speech will be in Pyongyang where she will attend an International Conference for Families Running a Country.

Among the participants will be the Castro family form Cuba, the Kim family from DPR Korea, the Shinawatra family form Thailand, the Duvaliers from Haiti...

One topic will be "How to sell the public an image on democracy when looking after the family's interest".

PM Yingluck will address the participants with her speech about "How to bend the law to whitewash criminal family members."

Other topis will be: "Use of Skype to govern" and "How to get rich quickly with Mega-projects", where it was said the Dear Leader Yingluck has special expertise.

[GentlemanJim]

We might be veering off into dangerous ground with the thread drift! Just sayin

[Baerboxer]

Right on Yingluck!! Excellent speech Of course the right-wing and royalists hate to hear the truth. They could not care less about Democracy for Thailand as the status quo suits them just fine. They've been hard at work erasing Thailand's 1932 revolution from the people's memory and rewriting history ever since.

Unfortunately it's not actually a speech that presents the balanced comments normally associated with the truth. Not that PTP would know or care anyway. The person attempting to re-write history could have been a tad more creative though.

[khunken]

Right on Yingluck!! Excellent speech Of course the right-wing and royalists hate to hear the truth. They could not care less about Democracy for Thailand as the status quo suits them just fine. They've been hard at work erasing Thailand's 1932 revolution from the people's memory and rewriting history ever since.

An excellent speech if the audience was her party or their militia (red shirts).

What Ms Y (& you) fail to understand is that when a PM goes abroad she (or he) represents the whole country. Not just her party, her family, her supporters &, especially, not her brother.

She has done a disservice to the country ('they have to bring their petty politics abroad') and deliberately chosen a venue where no questions can be asked. So it was cowardly too.

Methinks Yingluck's long political honeymoon is over.

[Pimay1]

Right on Yingluck!! Excellent speech Of course the right-wing and royalists hate to hear the truth. They could not care less about Democracy for Thailand as the status quo suits them just fine. They've been hard at work erasing Thailand's 1932 revolution from the people's memory and rewriting history ever since.

An excellent speech if the audience was her party or their militia (red shirts).

What Ms Y (& you) fail to understand is that when a PM goes abroad she (or he) represents the whole country. Not just her party, her family, her supporters &, especially, not her brother.

She has done a disservice to the country ('they have to bring their petty politics abroad') and deliberately chosen a venue where no questions can be asked. So it was cowardly too.

Methinks Yingluck's long political honeymoon is over.

This is the first time I have ever heard of a PM or President of a country on an official visit to a foreign country and during a diplomatic speech air the dirty laundry of their home country. This just shows how ill equiped Yingluck is to be the PM.

[chainarong]

Prime Minister, the only lesson you could possibly learn , was that you were wrong to bring up domestic issues , the people at the mongolian meeting couldn't give a toss about your interpretation of events nor of your brother being hard done by, most would have formed an opinion three years back, whats more to put it in a nut shell, most would have to consult google to find out where Thailand was.

[bigbamboo]

Right on Yingluck!! Excellent speech Of course the right-wing and royalists hate to hear the truth. They could not care less about Democracy for Thailand as the status quo suits them just fine. They've been hard at work erasing Thailand's 1932 revolution from the people's memory and rewriting history ever since.

An excellent speech if the audience was her party or their militia (red shirts).

What Ms Y (& you) fail to understand is that when a PM goes abroad she (or he) represents the whole country. Not just her party, her family, her supporters &, especially, not her brother.

She has done a disservice to the country ('they have to bring their petty politics abroad') and deliberately chosen a venue where no questions can be asked. So it was cowardly too.

Methinks Yingluck's long political honeymoon is over.

This is the first time I have ever heard of a PM or President of a country on an official visit to a foreign country and during a diplomatic speech air the dirty laundry of their home country. This just shows how ill equiped Yingluck is to be the PM.

It did seem like a huge whinge and was more in keeping with the Robert Amsterdam style of preaching to the converted. It certainly showed a lack of class, let alone protocol.

And BTW, Radkiter.......... I thought that most Thais, save a few wannabe republicans, were royalists.

[OzMick]

I learned, or at least confirmed, one thing from her speech. Yingluk, you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

[jayboy]

Right on Yingluck!! Excellent speech Of course the right-wing and royalists hate to hear the truth. They could not care less about Democracy for Thailand as the status quo suits them just fine. They've been hard at work erasing Thailand's 1932 revolution from the people's memory and rewriting history ever since.

An excellent speech if the audience was her party or their militia (red shirts).

What Ms Y (& you) fail to understand is that when a PM goes abroad she (or he) represents the whole country. Not just her party, her family, her supporters &, especially, not her brother.

She has done a disservice to the country ('they have to bring their petty politics abroad') and deliberately chosen a venue where no questions can be asked. So it was cowardly too.

Methinks Yingluck's long political honeymoon is over.

This is the first time I have ever heard of a PM or President of a country on an official visit to a foreign country and during a diplomatic speech air the dirty laundry of their home country. This just shows how ill equiped Yingluck is to be the PM.

Well of course she didn't do anything of the sort as anyone ( with an ounce of intelligence and not blinded by hatred) who read her comments would be able to verify.

However moving on to the general point you are mistaken if you believe this kind of criticism is anything new.In the US for example it is quite common for the scummier kind of right wing bigot to make the same kind of criticisms of Obama in reacting to his overseas statements.Pretty much the same here.

[MikeOboe57]

Normally you get a job because you possess certain qualifications.

Yingluck got her job because she lacked them.