THAI EDITORIAL: A doubly expensive flight for the government

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EDITORIAL

A doubly expensive flight for the government

The Nation 

 

Prime Minister Prayut might be said to run a Teflon administration, to which nothing sticks - not even scruples

 

BANGKOK: -- Soon after seizing power in 2014, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha instructed civil servants to save taxpayers' money by travelling economy class whenever they fly. The message was welcome, a sign that responsible government was at hand.

Now, though, with the ruling junta still patting itself on the back for pushing its self-serving constitution through a public referendum - which it took as a seal of approval for removing a corrupt regime and for its approach to governing - we have evidence of misdeeds in this administration, too.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/A-doubly-expensive-flight-for-the-government-30296880.html

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-10-05

[NongKhaiKid]

A doubly expensive flight perhaps but one that will be easily explained away, any further questions ?

Yes he's daring, challenging people to take this further, take him on and typifies his and his administration's arrogance but there again he knows he holds all the cards and has no hesitation playing them.

[PatOngo]

Free for the "government"...........expensive for the taxpayer!

[aussieinthailand]

Bugga,   I told the public we will only fly economy class and only eat economy noodn's,,  Now look, look, look,  you eat first class noodn ...

Now 21 million... And now they know you stay at Disney lesort Hawii...sshhheeeshhhh...

 

EZ,  Shut the critics up and publish the flight manifest hotel mini bar flash restaurants, every person who and why,  but hey it's all ok nothing to see here, move along, "Attitude Adjustment" for any one who keeps asking...

Edited October 5, 2016 by aussieinthailand

[jamesbrock]

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The money wasted on the chartered flight might be a pittance compared to the many millions squandered on [Yingluck's] ill-advised rice price-pledging scheme, but the principle at stake is exactly the same.

 

It's a pity that there are still several posters frequenting this forum who refused to accept this - in this, and several other cases.

[LannaGuy]

15 minutes ago, jamesbrock said:

 

It's a pity that there are still several posters frequenting this forum who refused to accept this - in this, and several other cases.

 

nothing similar at all

 

PTPs rise subsidy was same as Europe's or the USA's and designed to help farmers this is squandering on a junket

[elgordo38]

4 hours ago, jamesbrock said:

 

It's a pity that there are still several posters frequenting this forum who refused to accept this - in this, and several other cases.

By the time the new government gets done they will make Yingluck look like a piker. 

[Retiredandhappyhere]

Congratulations to the Nation newspaper for an excellent article, which they would not have dared write a few months ago.  It remains to be seen whether they suffer any repercussions for this one.

[GOLDBUGGY]

I don't see anything wrong with High Ranking Government Officials flying First Class, or even Chartered, on Official Government Business. None of yours do in your country so why should we expect them to?

 

I never heard of a Government Official flying Economy, unless it is his own vacation plan.  

[debate101]

These criticisms are always so oblique and premised on never-never land thinking, where an unaccountable government with no legal or organizational checks and balances is somehow supposed to be incorruptible or in any way superior to the elected administration. I guess that's the way it has to be, but it makes for some difficult reading.

[waldroj]

"... No one was supposed to know that General Prawit had blown a bundle getting to the conference of Southeast Asian defence ministers..."

Thai people being kept in the dark - yet again !!!

Edited October 5, 2016 by waldroj
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[PatOngo]

Then again........are the taxpayers complaining?