Everyone Burns
“When I look into the fish-ponds in my garden, Methinks I see a thing arm’d with a rake, That seems to strike at me.”
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Thaksin Shinawatra’s Thai Rak Thai Party won the election by a landslide, no longer requiring the support of the former coalition partner to govern. The polls had closed at 3.00pm on Sunday, and the Monday edition of the Bangkok Post carried the headline Single Party Rule, with the Nation announcing One Party Rule Looms.
Initial results showed that out of 500 seats in the House of Representatives Thaksin had taken 375, with the Democrat opposition collapsing humiliatingly to a mere 96. Bangkok had fallen and only in the South was there any resistance to the landslide.
Today, Thursday, there is still too much political coverage in the national papers for them to hold my attention. The Island Daily, however, does have an interesting little piece on the inside page entitled Local Policeman Dies in Bizarre Accident.
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