Yingluck warned over rice scheme: PM

[Lite Beer]

Yingluck warned over rice scheme: PM

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha on Friday said he had warned Yingluck Shinawatra, while she was still prime minister and he the army chief, that there were problems over her government's rice-pledging scheme.

Gen Prayuth, who is also chairman of the National Council for Peace and Order, said he, then as a government official, cautioned Ms Yingluck that many people had criticised the controversial rice programme.

He gave Ms Yingluck the warning before the May 22, when he staged a coup last year, he said.

“I told her there would be problems. She said everything would be alright and she was determined to push through the programme. She said she had evidence to fight back,” said Gen Prayut.

Gen Prayut said that as army chief he felt obliged to support every government in implementing its policy.

“So when there were problems I asked how she would cope with them. She said she could handle them and, as leader of the country’s administration, she was ready to take the responsibility,” he said.

The Office of the Attorney General plans to indict Ms Yingluck in the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions on Feb 19.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/yingluck-warned-rice-scheme-pm

-- Thai PBS 2015-02-13

[kingalfred]

Oh "everything was alright" and she could "handle them" . Wheres all the the "alright money" gone? Hmmm

[eeworldwide]

Setting it all up nicely for a conviction, I see. This will be entertaining.

Your honour, we call to the stand, General Prayut Chan-o-cha...

[Anthony5]

What has an army general to do with the rice pledging scheme?

Oh wait, he just want to clarify that his power grab was planned years ahead.

Edited February 13, 2015 by Anthony5

[icare999]

she's just a total lier and crook and front for Taksin his crew and resort robbing Thialnd blind. I really hope she and many rot for a long time or for ever in Jail

All total scumbags

and for those who posted I'm full of hate yes i hate what Taksin she and rest have done ansi hate way poor are taken in totally by them

Just because she looks good does not mean she's not as evil as Pol pot Mugabwie Saddam or any of them

Wake up Taksin forang worshipers and admit you are and were totally misguided pathetic naive useful idiots as Stalin said

[Thai at Heart]

There would be problems.

Any further detail available? Thought not.

[BigBadGeordie]

He said, she said...back in the school yard are we?

Please do not respond, this is a rhetorical statement.

[winstonc]

she cant say she wasnt warned then..too stupid to realise.what day it even is...and they mock the poor for being uneducated..i would love to know her excuse,

[Thai at Heart]

she's just a total lier and crook and front for Taksin his crew and resort robbing Thialnd blind. I really hope she and many rot for a long time or for ever in Jail

All total scumbags

and for those who posted I'm full of hate yes i hate what Taksin she and rest have done ansi hate way poor are taken in totally by them

Just because she looks good does not mean she's not as evil as Pol pot Mugabwie Saddam or any of them

Wake up Taksin forang worshipers and admit you are and were totally misguided pathetic naive useful idiots as Stalin said

What on earth are you ranting about. Thaksin akin to Stalin? You are demeaning the people who suffered at the Stalin's hands.

Incredible view of the world you have.

[Commerce]

I believe many of us had some hopes when the coup removed some shit. It seems to have been replaced with what's becoming diarrhoea. I wonder how smelly it can get?

[rametindallas]

The general will have to get in line with all the others who stated they warned Ms Yingluck and her government before him and publicly, while it was ongoing. He's a little late to the party, IMO.

[AGareth2]

she's just a total lier and crook and front for Taksin his crew and resort robbing Thialnd blind. I really hope she and many rot for a long time or for ever in Jail

All total scumbags

and for those who posted I'm full of hate yes i hate what Taksin she and rest have done ansi hate way poor are taken in totally by them

Just because she looks good does not mean she's not as evil as Pol pot Mugabwie Saddam or any of them

Wake up Taksin forang worshipers and admit you are and were totally misguided pathetic naive useful idiots as Stalin said

What on earth are you ranting about. Thaksin akin to Stalin? You are demeaning the people who suffered at the Stalin's hands.

Incredible view of the world you have.

ignorant is the word you are looking for

[dru2]

she's just a total lier and crook and front for Taksin his crew and resort robbing Thialnd blind. I really hope she and many rot for a long time or for ever in Jail

All total scumbags

and for those who posted I'm full of hate yes i hate what Taksin she and rest have done ansi hate way poor are taken in totally by them

Just because she looks good does not mean she's not as evil as Pol pot Mugabwie Saddam or any of them

Wake up Taksin forang worshipers and admit you are and were totally misguided pathetic naive useful idiots as Stalin said

What on earth are you ranting about. Thaksin akin to Stalin? You are demeaning the people who suffered at the Stalin's hands.

Incredible view of the world you have.

And yet the opposition to Thaksin are regularly labelled as "Fascists" by equally ignorant Thaksin partisans. Face it folks on both sides, no comparisons with those monsters Hitler and Stalin are appropriate here. Get real!

[rubl]

Said the Dicktator.

Actually Ms. Yingluck while PM went on record with similar phrases.

BTW your spell checker seems to need attitude adjustment.

Edited February 13, 2015 by rubl

[rubl]

I believe many of us had some hopes when the coup removed some shit. It seems to have been replaced with what's becoming diarrhoea. I wonder how smelly it can get?

With Ms. Yingluck and her legal team desperately trying to avoid a court case, it would seem a lot it still uncovered.

[Thai at Heart]

she's just a total lier and crook and front for Taksin his crew and resort robbing Thialnd blind. I really hope she and many rot for a long time or for ever in Jail

All total scumbags

and for those who posted I'm full of hate yes i hate what Taksin she and rest have done ansi hate way poor are taken in totally by them

Just because she looks good does not mean she's not as evil as Pol pot Mugabwie Saddam or any of them

Wake up Taksin forang worshipers and admit you are and were totally misguided pathetic naive useful idiots as Stalin said

What on earth are you ranting about. Thaksin akin to Stalin? You are demeaning the people who suffered at the Stalin's hands.

Incredible view of the world you have.

And yet the opposition to Thaksin are regularly labelled as "Fascists" by equally ignorant Thaksin partisans. Face it folks on both sides, no comparisons with those monsters Hitler and Stalin are appropriate here. Get real!

I don't call anyone fascist, anymore than thaksins social policies were socialist.

They are all blatenet monetarists. There are few principles on either side, and labelling people akin to Stalin or Hitler is indeed idiotic.

People to realise that neither side as they stand now is a long term solution but what needs to persist is democracy and the rule or law not these infernal resets and rejigs.

[smedly]

everything would have been fine once the 2.2 trillion off budget loan was approved and they could compensate for the money that was stolen without any questions being asked, the Thai people would have been none the wiser - all open and transparent.....not

[Bobobirdiebuddy]

Of course she and her brother knew there were serious problems with the price pledging scheme but Thaksin (who was behind this like he was behind everything Yingluck did) didn't care. First his push for amnesty was shot down, then his shady, corrupt rice scheme. Follow the money and you will see that this corruption travels from the top to the bottom. Billions of baht has been skimmed off all up and down the program.

[trogers]

she cant say she wasnt warned then..too stupid to realise.what day it even is...and they mock the poor for being uneducated..i would love to know her excuse,

Education cannot be bought.

[Wilsonandson]

she was ready to take the responsibility

10 years in jail.

[ratcatcher]

she's just a total lier and crook and front for Taksin his crew and resort robbing Thialnd blind. I really hope she and many rot for a long time or for ever in Jail

All total scumbags

and for those who posted I'm full of hate yes i hate what Taksin she and rest have done ansi hate way poor are taken in totally by them

Just because she looks good does not mean she's not as evil as Pol pot Mugabwie Saddam or any of them

Wake up Taksin forang worshipers and admit you are and were totally misguided pathetic naive useful idiots as Stalin said

"Just because she looks good does not mean she's not as evil as Pol pot Mugabwie Saddam or any of them"

Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother Thaksin may both be classified as schemers, but I think your argument loses credibility big time when you include the Shins in the company of Pol Pot, Mugabe and Saddam, who were all responsible for the systematic and horrible deaths of thousands of their citizens.

I do not like Thaksin, his sister is a weak woman and has been used by him, but I cannot see any comparison with those creatures you mentioned.

Why didn't you toss in Hitler and Stalin and really make the point?

I can understand your being angry but rational arguments go a long way further than gross exaggeration.

[ramrod711]

She said she could handle them and, as leader of the countrys administration, she was ready to take the responsibility, he said.

Both Yingluck and Nattawut have a curious way of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility, in their tiny minds, means saying you will and then hiring a lawyer when the sh-t hits the fan.

[Thai at Heart]

She said she could handle them and, as leader of the countrys administration, she was ready to take the responsibility, he said.

Both Yingluck and Nattawut have a curious way of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility, in their tiny minds, means saying you will and then hiring a lawyer when the sh-t hits the fan.

I would like him to clarify "problem" before making any comment. Corruption, losses? What problems because some are just policy problems and others are corruption.

Not sure what he means if he is talking about corruption. Why would she say she could handle corruption?

Edited February 13, 2015 by Thai at Heart

[rubl]

She said she could handle them and, as leader of the countrys administration, she was ready to take the responsibility, he said.

Both Yingluck and Nattawut have a curious way of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility, in their tiny minds, means saying you will and then hiring a lawyer when the sh-t hits the fan.

I would like him to clarify "problem" before making any comment. Corruption, losses? What problems because some are just policy problems and others are corruption.

Not sure what he means if he is talking about corruption. Why would she say she could handle corruption?

Did you never listen to Ms. Yingluck while she was PM? She frequently stated that her government took special care about corruption.

BTW why should the PM clarify a problem to you before making a comment on television?

As for 'some are just", that remark must be worth 700,000,000,000 Baht

[rubl]

she's just a total lier and crook and front for Taksin his crew and resort robbing Thialnd blind. I really hope she and many rot for a long time or for ever in Jail

All total scumbags

and for those who posted I'm full of hate yes i hate what Taksin she and rest have done ansi hate way poor are taken in totally by them

Just because she looks good does not mean she's not as evil as Pol pot Mugabwie Saddam or any of them

Wake up Taksin forang worshipers and admit you are and were totally misguided pathetic naive useful idiots as Stalin said

What on earth are you ranting about. Thaksin akin to Stalin? You are demeaning the people who suffered at the Stalin's hands.

Incredible view of the world you have.

And yet the opposition to Thaksin are regularly labelled as "Fascists" by equally ignorant Thaksin partisans. Face it folks on both sides, no comparisons with those monsters Hitler and Stalin are appropriate here. Get real!

I don't call anyone fascist, anymore than thaksins social policies were socialist.

They are all blatenet monetarists. There are few principles on either side, and labelling people akin to Stalin or Hitler is indeed idiotic.

People to realise that neither side as they stand now is a long term solution but what needs to persist is democracy and the rule or law not these infernal resets and rejigs.

Well, with people not realising that neither side as they stand now being a long term solution, something needs to be done. Democracy and rule of law didn't help. The current 'reset/rejig' may not go far enough for people to be more self-reliant. Certainly listening UDD leader Jatuporn telling us about the red-shirts rising to help that poor Amply Rich girl with normal red-shirts still lingering in jail, I doubt the people are ready.

[tbthailand]

as someone already asked if we were 'back in the schoolyard'...

Gen Prayut said that as army chief he felt obliged to support every government in implementing its policy.

lier, lier pants on fire!

[surangw]

any of this actually documented, or just he said, she said ?

[NeverSure]

In a civilized country, this kind of prejudicial statement made to the public by the leader of the country before a trial would get the case dismissed. The leader of the country makes some truly dumb statements.

I don't support YS or the rice scheme. I don't support illegal juntas. The international community doesn't support this junta.

I simply can't imagine how the general could make such a statement before a trial.

[Thai at Heart]

Of course she and her brother knew there were serious problems with the price pledging scheme but Thaksin (who was behind this like he was behind everything Yingluck did) didn't care. First his push for amnesty was shot down, then his shady, corrupt rice scheme. Follow the money and you will see that this corruption travels from the top to the bottom. Billions of baht has been skimmed off all up and down the program.

There was not any provable leakage of billions of baht. There was a loss because they paid a subsidised price. She isn't accused of corruption, she is accused of negligence.

They have one deal of not supplying to Iran for which someone is in jail, and faked b to b deals. The bulk of the loss is in structural loss not corruption

[Thai at Heart]

In a civilized country, this kind of prejudicial statement made to the public by the leader of the country before a trial would get the case dismissed. The leader of the country makes some truly dumb statements.

I don't support YS or the rice scheme. I don't support illegal juntas. The international community doesn't support this junta.

I simply can't imagine how the general could make such a statement before a trial.

Because he has the brain of a gnat.