Bargirls and night workers asked for their opinion as Prayut's politics' questions come to Walking Street

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Bargirls and night workers asked for their opinion as Prayut's politics' questions come to Walking Street

 

Picture STV Pattaya

 

PATTAYA: -- Thais working in Walking Street, South Pattaya, on Tuesday night were asked to give their opinion on politics and the future of the country.

 

The move followed after Pattaya people showed a big slice of indifference to the general's much vaunted survey.

 

The four questions were posed by PM Prayut Chan-ocha in May but only 700 people bothered to respond to the survey at the Bang Lamung Damrongtham Center.

 

So district chief Naris Niramaiwong had the bright idea to bring the political process to the night workers of Walking Street.

 

He felt they couldn't get out for one reason or another in the daytime so it was better to catch them at night.

 

His team of civil servants set up a table and any bargirl or other worker could show their ID and give their opinion.

 

The nationwide exercise has drawn criticism from some quarters that it is just a means of enabling the ruling military government to remain in power by giving them more legitimacy.

 

The questions are:

 

Do you think the next election will bring a government with good governance?

 

What should happen if it does not govern well?

 

Elections are an important part of the democratic process. Is it correct merely to give importance to elections without consideration for the future of the country in areas such as national strategy and reform?

 

Do you think political groups displaying inappropriate behavior deserve a chance to run in elections? If they are elected, who should solve the problem and how?

 

Sophon Cable TV reported the story on Facebook though no figures were given for the number of Pattaya night workers who bothered to stop and give their opinions.

 

Source: STV Pattaya

 

 

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[Shroud]

hookers and politics.. really?

[Dexlowe]

Answers:

1- Mai leu.

2- What different?

3- Alai nah?

4- Mai leu.

They're perfectly entitled to an opinion, but they're hardly a cross-section of Thai society. This exercise was ridiculous if it is not followed up by similar efforts in all sectors of greater Pattaya and include a wide variety of people.

[ezzra]

 

The PM may have good intentions, but the road to hell, as they say, paved

with good intentions....

Ecclesiastes 1:9

All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing. That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new "? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us.…

[Dobredin Ghusputin]

1 hour ago, Shroud said:

hookers and politics.. really?

 

Same same but different.

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Bar girls can be interested in politics too you know!

 

Life's not all about Candy Crush Saga and gold. 

[dinsdale]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

His team of civil servants set up a table and any bargirl or other worker could show their ID and give their opinion.

I would like to see the numbers on how many showed their ID card and gave their opinion. My guess is ZERO.

[dibley69]

I like how the questions are worded. Very negative.

For example.

What should happen if it does not govern well?

If it was positive shouldn't it ask 

What are looking forward to seeing under the new govt? Etc etc.

Typical politican. Lol

 

[yellowboat]

Some of These young women have political opinions, but those opinions are not popular with those who wanted the coup.  The posed questions are frivolous.  The importance the junta puts on them shows a lack of mental maturity.    

[jimstar1]

It Just gets Funnier asking a Hooker did she clear her Throat First  

[cedel]

What do you think that they think after authorities ordering bars and disco to close at 3 am, no prostitutes, raiding bars in soi 6,  etc? They certainly won't dare to tell their real opinion if they are asked their ID !! With a military junta behind...and the so-called lese-majesty law threatening everybody even if they just express themselves ... 

What a joke !

[LazySlipper]

Knowing full well this was in Thai, I wonder if a dictionary or anyone with a decent education was on hand to explain what the questions were all about...

[williamgeorgeallen]

most hookers in thailand know they are breaking the law plying their trade. a trade that especially this week has come under considerable scrutiny. their survival probably depends on keeping a low profile, not giving their ID and answering political surveys.

[Borzandy]

58 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Bar girls can be interested in politics too you know!

 

Life's not all about Candy Crush Saga and gold. 

Sorry you forgot "smartphone"

[SOUTHERNSTAR]

3 hours ago, Shroud said:

hookers and politics.. really?

Politicians and prostitutes are the same, one is just legal here and the other not.

[hobz]

42 minutes ago, dibley69 said:

I like how the questions are worded. Very negative.

For example.

What should happen if it does not govern well?

If it was positive shouldn't it ask 

What are looking forward to seeing under the new govt? Etc etc.

Typical politican. Lol

 

Yeah, very bizarre questions, very leading lol.

 

I would translate all the questions to: if the red shirts win the election should the military stop them again? A) yes. yes.

[Pattaya28]

700 people responded  Pull the other one.

Answering these questions honestly could lead to imprisonment.

Is Walking Street at night-time the place to ask these questions ?

Is the type of person in Walking Street in any way qualified to answer ?

Maybe a question about corruption should be slipped in.

 

 

 

[Somtamnication]

Why not ask them? They command about 40% of the nation's GDP!  People don't come here for the aromatic rice! 

[soalbundy]

giving your opinion in this country can get you arrested. At the level of working people politics will make no difference to their lives, it doesn't matter who is in power they just aren't a section of interest, until election time that is. Why risk showing your ID and giving an opinion that the army doesn't like, you could end up on their radar.

[mduras01]

We don't like your answer. Arrest her.


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[lvr181]

Loaded questions!  Then they want to eyeball people when asking questions, perhaps to ensure they give the expected "correct" answers otherwise it is "attitude adjustment"?     

[wvavin]

Thailand just has too much time for such game. 

[Dogmatix]

Prayut takes an interest in the welfare of bar girls, sexy mor lam singers etc. Perhaps they will form the hard core of a future political party.

[mark01]

Don't answer when your mouth is full..

[BigBadGeordie]

1 hour ago, SOUTHERNSTAR said:

Politicians and prostitutes are the same, one is just legal here and the other not.

Your correct, politicians are banned from meeting together any gathering is illegal.

 

But 40+ girls in a Go-Gò bar appears to be fine.......for now.

[Howiehotspur]

Hang on ... show their ID  - and then give a opinion which ' might ' go against the current regimes thoughts ,  I don't think so . 

[Krataiboy]

Yeah, but. . .

 

The questions are loaded to get the replies the junta wants to justify clinging on to power. The question is: are the Thai people smart enough to realise this?

(Get  ready to duck, moderators!).

 

 

[Monkeyrobot]

You want talk with me must buy drink, this my friend buy her one too, ok Mai? What you name where come from? Buy me one more drink oh Mai?? 

[champers]

Mister, you think too much.

[jenifer d]

5 hours ago, Dexlowe said:

Answers:

1- Mai leu.

2- What different?

3- Alai nah?

4- Mai leu.

They're perfectly entitled to an opinion, but they're hardly a cross-section of Thai society. This exercise was ridiculous if it is not followed up by similar efforts in all sectors of greater Pattaya and include a wide variety of people.

your 4 answers just made my morning, thanks for that!!!