Comments on: Scenarios for Thailand http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2008/11/23/scenarios-for-thailand/ New perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:26 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sidh S. http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2008/11/23/scenarios-for-thailand/comment-page-1/#comment-580602 Sidh S. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:40:59 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/?p=3613#comment-580602 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...) 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…)

]]> By: Nelson http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2008/11/23/scenarios-for-thailand/comment-page-1/#comment-580567 Nelson Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:30:51 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/?p=3613#comment-580567 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. 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.

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