Alongkorn condemns politicians’ rice sales as ‘media stunts’

[webfact]

Alongkorn condemns politicians’ rice sales as ‘media stunts’
By THE NATION

 

BANGKOK: -- THE vice chairman of the National Reform Steering Assembly yesterday criticised public attempts by high-profile politicians to sell rice – and attempts by their opponents to block them.

 

NRSA vice chair Alongkorn Ponlaboot said clashes could spin into political assaults. He urged both sides to tone down their activities so that the mood of the royal mourning period would not be spoiled.

 

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is among the first MPs who stepped out to help farmers sell rice after prices slumped over recent weeks. On Saturday, she led some Pheu Thai executives to sell rice outside a shopping mall in Samut Prakan, the second time she had done so. 

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/politics/30299926

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-11-14

[trogers]

Reminds me of the days of the travelling medicine men (or woman)!

 

Simple tricks on simple minds...

[Thailand]

And why didn't we think of it first!

[ChrisY1]

Yep......he's right........and theses stunts make so much mileage....!

[tbthailand]

49 minutes ago, webfact said:

Alongkorn condemns politicians’ rice sales as ‘media stunts’

 

and since media stunts by politicians are not allowed, the next stop will be AA

[NongKhaiKid]

16 minutes ago, tbthailand said:

 

and since media stunts by politicians are not allowed, the next stop will be AA

YL might be safe as she's not a student or someone easily pushed around, she's got too many supporters for that.

The junta's not big on picking on someone their own size.

[colinneil]

Sad thing about this, is that it draws peoples attention away from things that really matter.

Like trying to find a long term solution to the rice farmers problems.

[NongKhaiKid]

Just now, colinneil said:

Sad thing about this, is that it draws peoples attention away from things that really matter.

Like trying to find a long term solution to the rice farmers problems.

Or the PM visiting rubbish disposal efforts in the north.

[grumbleweed]

Not a miller by any chance is he?

Yingluck has merely set the ball rolling. Direct rice sales are now being promoted all over the place, and by people who want to be seen to provide an ethical solution instead of lumping the farmers with more debt in order to control them

 

Regardless of your opinion of her or her motives, you'd have to be severely blinkered not to see that her actions have benefited rice farmers

 

[Eric Loh]

Probably jealous of the media attention generated from Yingluck's success and wondering why his party didn't think of this first. Seem only the Dem Party former MPs are sulking and complaining. 

[Enoon]

44 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Probably jealous of the media attention generated from Yingluck's success and wondering why his party didn't think of this first. Seem only the Dem Party former MPs are sulking and complaining. 

 

How could the Democratic party ever think of doing something that was designed to appeal to poor rice farmers?

 

In order to do so they would have to have, as an intellectual "start line", the notion that those people are worthy of any sort of consideration, or deserve inclusion in any strategy.  The rural farming community is their enemy and it is inconceivable that they would seek to co-opt it.  Just as Czarist Russia could never have dreamed of co-opting, or seeking the approval of, its serfs.

 

This is their sort of plan:

 

"...up to the middle class to swarm to the polls and defeat the poor who are just after government handouts....If they [political parties] use the same old campaign strategy, they will come [to power] with the votes of the poor who want more money to make their life better,"

 

General Prayut Chan-o-cha. 2015.

Prayut Chan-o-cha - Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2016 by Enoon

[williamgeorgeallen]

4 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

YL might be safe as she's not a student or someone easily pushed around, she's got too many supporters for that.

The junta's not big on picking on someone their own size.

no one is bigger than the army, not in thailand anyway. they ran thaksin out and they will run yingluck out as well, or lock her up.

[lvr181]

" NRSA vice chair Alongkorn Ponlaboot said clashes could spin into political assaults. He urged both sides to tone down their activities so that the mood of the royal mourning period would not be spoiled. "

 

Nice idea, but if you want to stop "riotous behaviour" then parents and schools should start teaching that violence is not a part of protesting. Peaceful protest should be acceptable in any civilised country.

[NongKhaiKid]

1 hour ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

no one is bigger than the army, not in thailand anyway. they ran thaksin out and they will run yingluck out as well, or lock her up.

Funny how, for example, people wearing orange robes can run rings around them.

[williamgeorgeallen]

1 minute ago, NongKhaiKid said:

Funny how, for example, people wearing orange robes can run rings around them.

there are a few monks here that are so rich here they can buy their way out of anything. they arent running, they are paying.

[Baerboxer]

8 hours ago, tbthailand said:

 

and since media stunts by politicians are not allowed, the next stop will be AA

 

and to be fair he also spoke against those trying to stop them. Don't want political squabbling whilst the nation is still in morning. Even though some somewhere may see it as another attempt to get some cheap publicity.

[Baerboxer]

4 hours ago, grumbleweed said:

Not a miller by any chance is he?

Yingluck has merely set the ball rolling. Direct rice sales are now being promoted all over the place, and by people who want to be seen to provide an ethical solution instead of lumping the farmers with more debt in order to control them

 

Regardless of your opinion of her or her motives, you'd have to be severely blinkered not to see that her actions have benefited rice farmers

 

 

Fallen for the trap? Yingluck never set this ball rolling. She jumped on the bandwagon. Others were already doing it. PTT had announced farmers could set up rice selling stalls in their forecourts.

But full points to the Shin PR team who've got her and her brothers name back in the press during this time of mourning.

[Baerboxer]

8 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

YL might be safe as she's not a student or someone easily pushed around, she's got too many supporters for that.

The junta's not big on picking on someone their own size.

 

Too much money, expensive lawyers, and paid for minders maybe. Not sure many unpaid supporters would be so bothered these days.

[dhream]

7 hours ago, colinneil said:

Sad thing about this, is that it draws peoples attention away from things that really matter.

Like trying to find a long term solution to the rice farmers problems.

I suppose growing rapidly-being-legalized Cannabis or hemp would be too progressive not to mention insanely profitable?

By the time they cotton on, California will be selling the best weed to the entire (legalized) world.

If you missed it because of the trump election, about FIVE US States ALSO voted to legalize RECREATIONAL weed last week.

 

[dhream]

2 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

Funny how, for example, people wearing orange robes can run rings around them.

Orange robes are not bullet proof, there will come a time... at the moment it pays not to rock the boat, if you think the army are afraid of anything, or anyone, since a certain event came to pass, you are not paying attention.

[Moonmoon]

We don't need media stunts. We need Suthep n his PDRC to protest n reform against the junta's failed rice scheme. 

[sandemara]

A crushing condemnation.

[mike324]

5 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

How could the Democratic party ever think of doing something that was designed to appeal to poor rice farmers?

 

In order to do so they would have to have, as an intellectual "start line", the notion that those people are worthy of any sort of consideration, or deserve inclusion in any strategy.  The rural farming community is their enemy and it is inconceivable that they would seek to co-opt it.  Just as Czarist Russia could never have dreamed of co-opting, or seeking the approval of, its serfs.

 

This is their sort of plan:

 

"...up to the middle class to swarm to the polls and defeat the poor who are just after government handouts....If they [political parties] use the same old campaign strategy, they will come [to power] with the votes of the poor who want more money to make their life better,"

 

General Prayut Chan-o-cha. 2015.

Prayut Chan-o-cha - Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually the DEMs Rice Scheme was the most sustainable of them all and would have benefited the farmers the most.

[NongKhaiKid]

1 hour ago, dhream said:

Orange robes are not bullet proof, there will come a time... at the moment it pays not to rock the boat, if you think the army are afraid of anything, or anyone, since a certain event came to pass, you are not paying attention.

I can assure you I am paying attention and there is something I'd like to say about the future and how it will affect the army but if I did the forum rules would be the least of my problems.

 

Maybe you should consider issues involving orange robes before the sad event and how they were sidestepped all the way up to the PM.

[candide]

12 hours ago, tbthailand said:

 

and since media stunts by politicians are not allowed, the next stop will be AA

He already said how they will solve it. They will send PDRC thugs or equivalent to create clashes and then forbid those rice sales because of trouble to public order.