PM offers House dissolution and national election

[Bpuumike]

Abhisit's about-turn and 'agreement' to lead his party's resignation from the current house of representatives is the act of someone being manipulated and not the act of a party leader. Whatever credibility he had by keeping his former deputy at arms-length is pretty much gone now. Whatever the outcome, he isn't wearing the pants in that household now (if he ever was).

The current government have (eventually) acquiesced on pretty much everything that caused the ruckus and the opposition's subsequent and never-ending litany of demands, from vowing not to revive the amnesty bill, to proposing a referendum, to offering to dissolve parliament and setting new elections. She has just asked that parliament be dissolved but the knee-jerk reaction of what passes for opposition here will be to raise the bar and press on with Suthep's unrealistic 'people's council' and the one-way street to ignominy that this option presents.

There's no way an elected party anywhere on this planet with the popular mandate to govern should relinquish control to a fractious bunch with absolutely no policy beyond getting something they cannot obtain by legal means. A viable opposition may have a snowball's chance in hell of getting things changed but the Democrats are just not that viable.

The elections will once again be free and fair and PTP (or whatever new brand name they propose) will be back in the driver's seat with the usual retinue of kids in the back.

The elections might be fair but they are not free.

Votes have to be bought.

[EyesWideOpen]

Choice 1. An endless string of clones run by Thaksin from afar, with rigged elections filled with vote

buying . Their goal seems to be to loot country as much as they can

Choice 2. Some sort of Suthep dictatorship set up with a " committee"

Choice 3. The military steps in with another coup. They don't seem to be able to run themselves,

much less being able to run the country.... Their trafficking of Burmese refugees has shown their true color.

So what to do ???????? All the choices seem pretty dismal to me....

Edited December 11, 2013 by EyesWideOpen

[Bpuumike]

The truth is that it has come to the point where it doesn't matter if you do have a duly democratically elected Government for there will always be one side that opposes the appointment therefore demonstrating for their own greed and the round-about continues to revolve.

You cannot and will not have democracy in a country where the people are ignorant to its true meaning nor where certain individuals are prevented from getting their snouts in the trough.

If corruption could be removed (most unlikely) then maybe, just maybe it could work - until then those stupid enough to follow either color will continue to be blindly lead by those who greedy and corrupt.

This is not "one side", this is a very broad based protest. The protestors are everyone and anyone, poor, rich, students, middle class. They are the country.

All the PTP shills here making out it is an us (PTP) versus them (PAD) are just painting a strawman.

PTP have failed dismally to show anything other than incompetence and greed, and even the poor who voted them in have started to become aware of it.

But what's the alternative? Unfortunately for Thailand I don't see a genuine one.

Chuwit would have been, but I understand he is stepping down from political life just at the time he is needed.