Thaksin returns to Thailand and is arrested

He has an ego the size of Jupiter and it’s always been about him. We had an interesting spell as a club under Thaksin’s reign.
 
jockblue said:
I miss the updates on the Thai Royal Family that were posted up on the scoreboards before and during every game in his year in charge...
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I stopped going as a result of that propaganda - happy birthday to the king. It was 8 weeks off his birthday and he wasn't there to see the scoreboard.
Then repeated every game up to the birthday.....
 
arrested? ;)

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Frank the Yank said:
This is 100% spot on. Thailand has potential but will be a basket case as long as the inbred royal family is in charge.

That screwball #10 has yet to name a successor. If he croaks soon ( let’s hope he does), things will be even more chaotic than they have been the past 20 years.

Thailand will continue to suffer a huge brain drain. Potential young leaders/entrepreneurs will leave in droves given half a chance because under this regime there is no future.

The guy denied the PMs office would have been a positive influence. However, the establishment/swamp are scared shitless of any type of change that challenges its place in society even one iota.

Have two homes in Thailand and can see myself spending more time there in the future but would never spend a huge amount of time there.

It’s sad…..
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A revolutionary?

A more balanced view would be that Thai politics changes 180 degrees whenever it has to. Yes, the royal family is corrupted, the army is corrupt and all the politicians are corrupt, but that isn't the issue that affects most of the population. That is the endemic corruption in every day life. If you have two houses here, you will have experienced it. Pay people to get things done. Pay the police to get off even the worst crimes. Pay the police to frame someone. To make them disappear. No money? Go to jail for the smallest thing. Getting rid of the royal family without changing the rest won't achieve anything. Luckily, there are signs that change is coming from the younger generation when these have been largely ambivalent for many generations. The time of Thaksin, the army and a royal family in its present guise will be over in the next ten years. Have to wait and see if that makes things better for the ordinary folk.
 
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