PM pushes 20-year national strategy
By Wasamon Audjarint 
Khanittha Theppajorn 
The Nation

 

 

Meeting of cabinet, ncpo and cdc sets agenda for junta’s new framework

 

BANGKOK: -- The three most powerful political bodies in Thailand met yesterday before the regular weekly Cabinet meeting to discuss the planned 20-year national strategy.

 

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha invited the ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the Cabinet and the Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC), including chief charter drafter Meechai Ruchupan, to the meeting.

 

On the national strategy, Prayut said the CDC would principally draft the organic laws and he wanted the commission to understand the government’s intention to lay a framework to accomplish goals without having power over future administrations.

 

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Ah the old 20 yr strategy thingy again.

So the big announcement wasn't made?

Has anyone seen this much talked about 20 year strategy?

He is getting more and more Stalinist by the day

20 year national strategy is to spend all available power and resources curtailing criticism while paying lip service to anything else.

 

15 minutes ago, smutcakes said:

Has anyone seen this much talked about 20 year strategy?

I think it's quite simple, he and the junta plans to stay in power.

In the background strains of KC and The Sunshine Band singing " Please Don't Go ' !

43 minutes ago, JAG said:

So the big announcement wasn't made?

 

Indeed it was, it will take 20 years before the country is "ready" for elections.

No wait, Mr. Prayut, it has been 5-years-plans for a century now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plan  You are doing it wrong!

Yours sincerly: Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong

To add to the buffoonery, does he not realise the world will be different in just a couple of years? Governments (legally elected ones anyway) need to be versatile and to constantly adapt goals and policies to changing global and regional circumstances.

 

He's just showing his naivety (or wishful thinking).

 
Indeed it was, it will take 20 years before the country is "ready" for elections.

Whilst I agree with your conclusion, I was actually thinking about another announcement...

1 hour ago, jackinthebox said:

No wait, Mr. Prayut, it has been 5-years-plans for a century now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plan  You are doing it wrong!

Yours sincerly: Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong

 

We can laugh all we want, but the reality is nothing is standing in their way, and no one is able or willing to stand up to these bullies.

 

Pity that these kind of plans put in place usually get undone or thrown to the

bin of history once a new government and a new PM is installed and as always,

politicians wanting to rewards their lackeys and award them with lucrative

positions and offices... case in point Trump is undoing almost all of Obama

executive orders he put in place....

Just now, debate101 said:

 

We can laugh all we want, but the reality is nothing is standing in their way, and no one is able or willing to stand up to these bullies.

You are so right and I don't want to think about what could happen if there's serious and very open opposition.

I can't help thinking the country could turn into a pressure cooker and we know what happens if pressure isn't released.

Usually the future starts today.  What are they doing now that will a positive outcome tomorrow ?  Nothing comes to mind.  Thailand was ahead of China not so many years ago.  Today Thailand is falling behind and others are catching up.  Today is what they should be worried about if they actually cared about the Thai people, as much as, they cared about their own wealth and authority.

 

4 minutes ago, NongKhaiKid said:

You are so right and I don't want to think about what could happen if there's serious and very open opposition.

I can't help thinking the country could turn into a pressure cooker and we know what happens if pressure isn't released.

 

True, but from the looks of things, all viable opposition has been cowed. Previous protests leaders are rotting in jail cells or have fled abroad. Polite society has been mentally poisoned against the very idea of democracy by the red shirts' inability to distance themselves from Thaksin's clan. It looks like the country is in for a long, slow, sad decline. Don't mean to be pessimistic, but the opposition just couldn't get their feet under themselves in time to prevent the junta government from stacking all of the rules in their favor, most people still have no idea what has happened or what is happening, and with increasing levels of censorship and deluge of propaganda, they may never know.

44 minutes ago, debate101 said:

 

We can laugh all we want, but the reality is nothing is standing in their way, and no one is able or willing to stand up to these bullies.

Yet ! 

People will only take so much. Remember the last ten years. Red, yellow, Red , Yellow. Every three years. Normal.

3 hours ago, JAG said:

So the big announcement wasn't made?

There was a big announcement made but TRUE Visions keep blocking the BBC transmission as soon as the words " In Thailand ' are said. 

Is that the one you mean before this post gets removed ?

6 minutes ago, NongKhaiKid said:

There was a big announcement made but TRUE Visions keep blocking the BBC transmission as soon as the words " In Thailand ' are said. 

Is that the one you mean before this post gets removed ?

 

Is that so that True visions blocks every international news channel when they have a report about Thailand?

There was a big announcement made but TRUE Visions keep blocking the BBC transmission as soon as the words " In Thailand ' are said. 
Is that the one you mean before this post gets removed ?

Ah yes, found it on the BBC website.

Just now, Anthony5 said:

 

Is that so that True visions blocks every international news channel when they have a report about Thailand?

They definitely block the BBC but they're not exactly favoured by the PM because they never say anything nice just often tell the truth.

A twenty year strategy is all very well until on the seventh year ( Give or take a few ) once again the students may have to change the course of history again......................................................

2 hours ago, debate101 said:

 

We can laugh all we want, but the reality is nothing is standing in their way, and no one is able or willing to stand up to these bullies.

You need to plan and understand the enemy they're working on it

A waste of grey matters thinking of such a ridiculous long term 20 years strategy. Critical that a strategy must have ownership and citizen buy-in. This top down strategy will never have ownership and without the people buying-in, the strategy will fizzle to the point of irrelevance. Moreover, this just a vague plan with no stated vision and details. If this was proposed in a management class, it will be go straight to the bin. Next.  

The strategy the junta will use to "lay" a framework for the next 20 years.

 

 

With seemingly nothing to stop these guys remaining at the controls, it's easy to see why Prayut would say “I can’t be bothered to answer this kind of boring question” when asked whether the road map would remain unchanged.

2 hours ago, Anthony5 said:

 

Is that so that True visions blocks every international news channel when they have a report about Thailand?

The censor slept in this morning because during one of the early bulletins it was getting very interesting before it was blocked !

6 hours ago, smutcakes said:

Has anyone seen this much talked about 20 year strategy?

Details of the strategy can't be released for security reasons. It will only encourage public discussion and media reporting which is undesirable.

well it has to be better than the old 4 year plan when there was a coup roughly every 4 years right?

7 hours ago, Thechook said:

Ah the old 20 yr strategy thingy again.

 

Does the Thai government even have a strategy beyond the next 20 days minutes?!

7 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

I think it's quite simple, he and the junta plans to stay in power.

In the background strains of KC and The Sunshine Band singing " Please Don't Go ' !

 

....and no one singing 'That's the way I like it'