webfact Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 ABAC Poll: Consumers distrust government regarding rice controversyBy English NewsBANGKOK, July 22 – Sixty-one per cent of Thais lack confidence in the government’s crackdown on corruption in the rice pledging scheme, according to a university survey.Questioning 2,438 participants, the ABAC Poll – the survey centre of Assumption University – said 61.6 per cent expressed doubts on the government’s investigation in the highly-criticised rice purchase programme while 58 per cent said they felt disillusioned on learning that a senior official was treated unfairly by the government after revealing corruption in the scheme.Regarding their awareness on the investigation of corruption, 88.8 per cent of participants said they knew about the probe while 11.2 per cent said they were unaware of it.On the discovery of chemical residues in packaged rice, 42.9 per cent said they trusted the information given by non-government agencies such as the Consumers Foundation and the media on the safety of packaged rice, while 32.9 per cent said they have faith in the government’s information and 24.2 per cent said they did not believe any party.Most participants said they were disappointed with the performance of the government and the opposition party and said they did not feel more confident on the safety of Thai rice after having seen Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and some cabinet members eating cooked rice at a private company’s rice mill last week.The participants showed negative reactions towards the government and rice traders and called for all parties concerned to act for the sake of Thailand's consumers instead of merely thinking of their profits. (MCOT online news) -- TNA 2013-07-22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsxrnz Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Gosh! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard10365 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 About the rice pledging scheme, i have been reading about competition laws and if the people in charge of this scheme had been working for a private organization and not the government, this looks like it would have been illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Distrust abut the rice scheme ? The government are getting off lightly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaullyW Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 "... and said they did not feel more confident on the safety of Thai rice after having seen Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and some cabinet members eating cooked rice at a private company’s rice mill last week." Well, gosh. That's a sign of relief that they are not so easily duped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbamboo Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Only 32 per cent trust the government? That means even a large percentage of their own supporters don't believe their lies any more. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 All polls such as this are pointless as the wording of the questions tend to give the answers the pollsters are looking for. However in this case I'm prepared to suspend my scepticism as the stream of contradictory statements issued by this govt over the last week has been confusing and the root cause of a lot of distrust about the quality of Thai rice. Is it safe to eat, it might be but nothing this govt has said this week leads me to draw that conclusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzMick Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Learning through experience? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomross46 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 39.4% said either they trust the government or do not know. It is just a poll. Where the problem list is with the 11.2% that were unaware of the problem. If this is like everything else it will be news foe a while, and than something else will come up next month and everyone will forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdoom6996 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Good luck with that last statement in the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zpete Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Learning through experience? "Where has the good rice gone?" "When will they ever learn" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagz Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 can't blame them there, the real figures are probably higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLew Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 How can people now trust the PTP Such a great bunch pf public servants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daiwill60 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 and who would have expected anything else other than mistrust by the silent masses, in a country run purely by corruption???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Any country where over 70% of the people polled said that they don't mind corruption if it benefits themselves, get what they deserve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 ....maybe there is hope for Thailand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pb1936 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 ...... maybe there is no hope for Thailand ............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pb1936 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 ...... maybe there is no hope for Thailand ............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurnell Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I think they need to have a poll asking whether Thais would be willing to do something rather than complain, or feel disillusioned about corruption, nepotism, cronyism and so on. My guess is a big fat 100% would choose to do nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenBravo Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I think they need to have a poll asking whether Thais would be willing to do something rather than complain, or feel disillusioned about corruption, nepotism, cronyism and so on. My guess is a big fat 100% would choose to do nothing. No.......they would vote for a committee to look into the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinchester Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I think it's time for the rice mill owners to start a defamation suit against the Thai people for voicing doubt about the quality of the rice. Sent from my GT-I9003 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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