Ed Cropley from Reuters has put together a useful set of scenarios for Thai politics in the coming days, weeks and months. These range from “Messy Sunday” to “PAD campaign fizzles out” to “King intervenes”. His analysis is well worth a look.
Scenarios for Thailand
November 23rd, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 2 Comments
Tags: PAD · Royal family · Thailand
2 responses so far ↓
1 Nelson // Nov 24, 2008 at 2:30 pm
And as in all political scenarios in Thailand, not a single one will be even remotely in the wider public interest. Thailand’s royalist elite really only has itself to blame. In a system where one cannot say anything even remotely critical of the royal family or the other mafia who run this country, politics has degenerated into an absurd theater of vacuous mob violence bankrolled by the different power factions. A political system without a viable left-wing (or even a viable midfield) is going nowhere.
2 Sidh S. // Nov 24, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I will add ‘War with the UK’ when Thaksin returns as prime minister to the scenarios? I just followed a link from the Nation to this inverview with PMThaksin in Arabian Business:
“Ex-Thai PM hits out at UK”
in
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/539193-ex-thai-pm-hits-out-at-uk
This does not bode well for TescoLotus – maybe even the Premier League (a ban on live telecasts?)… How dare the UK government humiliate he-who-could-do-no-wrong?
(on a serious note, this is a sign of PMThaksin losing the plot…)
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