The Thai opposition hasn't got anything properly planned out and are selfish morons. They accuse Thaksin of letting the interests of his family business interfere with his job as PM. After he sells off the family business, they accuse him of corruption and abuse of power so his family saved on taxes during the deal. Everyone forgets they had put him in power exactly because of his CEO style.
Then they want him to resign and whine their hearts out week in week out, even after Thaksin has given them the elections they so wanted. Somehow, 1 month is not enough for the opposition to prepare for elections. They had been whinging for the PM to resign and surely they must have known that there'd be elections if he resigned, but yet didn't prepare for them at all.
And when he finally resigns, some genius in the opposition camp finally came up with the idea that hey Thaksin could still pull strings behind the scenes. So now they come out and say they want him to get out of politics.
So now even more mayhem will follow. Throughout this political crisis, the opposition have clearly shown that they are very lacking in planning and that they are opportunists much more interested in their own selfish little gains than in how their country is going (no problems at all for them if anybody gets injured or killed during the demonstrations, or if the country's image takes a beating internationally or even if the main shopping belt in Bangkok comes to a standstill). Which doesn't bode well at all for if any of them ever get into government ...
But I can't wait for when all this is over and the various parties of the opposition start biting at each other.
And I don't understand why the people in Bangkok were so eager to support the opposition in their rallies.
>> Did the opposition leaders spend every night together with the Thai people camping out in front of Thaksin's office or Siam Paragon? Probably not.
>> Do the Bangkok people really think their lives will be so much better with somebody else in office?
>>If the lives of the people in Bangkok are really so unbearable, then how come most of the Thai people everywhere else support Thaksin? Surely the Thai people in the other cities earn less money.
Because the average person in a Thai rural community earns like 100-200 USD a month and Thaksin is a bllionaire media mogul. He can buy whole provinces and pay the ignorant and un-educated easily 20-50 dollars to vote for him or buy local polititans for like 20K USD.
ReplyDeleteHe has no business turning public thai companies and utilities private, buying them in the stock market and re-selling them to countries like singapore. This guy knows how to scam big. He doesn't eat off the same table of the people like these other Thai polititians. He feed people his scraps and they like it. Thailand will be like Brazil or Argentina after Thaksin and his PPP get through with it.
Thats because the average Thai in rural provinces earn about 100-200 USD a month. Thaksin is a billionare media mogul. He can buy his votes. How does he make is money? He turns any profitable Thai public works or national utilities private and buys back shares in the Thai stock market at a dirt cheap prices and sells them to countries like singapore. This guy knows how to scam big he doesn't eat off the same table as the people he gives them scraps. He can buy is votes in rural areas or buy backings os rural polititans for like $45-80K USD. Chump change for him and now these people who he bought are enslaved. The other Thai politians just don't know how to be as good in corruption like him. They want to eat whats little on the same table in local economies. Another thing is He is so rich he can buy his own government and have them re-elected. After him and his partners get through with Thailand. It will be like Brazil or Argentina. The only thing Thai people will own is their flag.
ReplyDeleteValid points raised by anonymous but they only address the last question I had asked in the original post, which was more about the opposition's stupidity or general lack of thinking rather than Thaksin's merits and misdeeds during his time as PM.
ReplyDeleteI too think that Thaksin had no business selling off those companies to Temasek and that Temasek had no business putting its nose there, where it didn't belong. I would have totally supported the Thai government if they had repossessed those companies and given not a single cent to Temasek as compensation. But as it has been pretty much throughout the reign of this Interim government, no concrete action was taken.