Yingluck still a drawcard, despite cynics

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Yingluck still a drawcard, despite cynics

Published: 2/02/2012 at 09:02 AM
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Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra can still fill seats when she speaks, despite reports that she is losing her touch with audiences.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gesticulates during a House debate on Tuesday on the government's executive decrees seeking to borrow billions of baht for flood prevention and repair work. (Photo by Thiti Wannamontha)

Ms Yingluck was the keynote speaker at a seminar on the country's gross domestic product held at the Dusit Thani Hotel. She was scheduled to deliver her remarks around 10am yesterday but delayed the speech by half an hour.

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bluebkk
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Discussion 24 : 02/02/2012 at 05:01 PM24
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Discussion 1...all this happens when the REAL boss is in Dubai.... perhaps skype does not work so well everywhere at all times????? LOL
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Discussion 23 : 02/02/2012 at 03:50 PM23
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Don't forget that this is the same PM who used tugboats towing a bridge as a flood prevention measure! And did it work, you be the judge? If she can't grasp simple physics of hydrodynamics, what makes anyone think she would understand a complex Macroeconomic theory. After all, this is the same person who had no clues of what was going on at the dams, which caused last year's catastrophe!
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Discussion 22 : 02/02/2012 at 03:47 PM22
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Discussion 7 - Totally agree. I think its outrageous and that as a tax payer I'm pissed that she doesn't have to show up for work in the House. I want to see my tax money at work!
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Discussion 21 : 02/02/2012 at 01:43 PM21
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"However, a lack of promotion was to blame, not the quality of the speaker, she said." Yes, because everyone knows Yingluck is an accomplished economist and administrator. Also good to know the country will be fully recovered in time to be ravaged by flooding this year - as no measures have been taken to prevent another catastrophe.
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Discussion 20 : 02/02/2012 at 11:28 AM20
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D2 says "most" listen to YS. Eleven of her MP's did not listen. They were in Dubai paying homage.

You have to feel sympathy for YS. I think the odds are shortening rapidly now that she will resign by mid year when Sudarat and co come back to save PTP.
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Discussion 19 : 02/02/2012 at 11:22 AM19
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It seems that YS should stop supporting events organissed by The Economic Reporters Association. It was the failure of having such seminar not the speech that YS was invited to deliver.
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Discussion 18 : 02/02/2012 at 11:00 AM18
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Instead of reporting on the substance of what she said, lets create a negative spin and claim that barely anyone one showed up . . . even though she really got 75% of expected attendance.
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Discussion 17 : 02/02/2012 at 10:38 AM17
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the honeymoon is over the thai people are beggining to realize where the present government are coming from instead of serveing the nation there helping themselves for their boss the country is slowly becoming a dictatership wake up thailand
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Discussion 16 : 02/02/2012 at 10:00 AM16
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Lovely photo by BP.
Unlike other PMs, Yingluck is getting more and more beautiful as she spend time as a PM.
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Discussion 15 : 02/02/2012 at 09:52 AM15
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I guess nobody was interested in her speech.. ouch that hurts !
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