The game is not World Cup football but the victors getting their spoils following the street defeat of the latest red shirt challenge.
The winners have been the inaptly named Democrat Party and the military.
The Abhisit Vejjajiva Democrats have cleaned out some of the “difficulties” they faced in their coalition and have seemingly managed to see off – for the moment at least – the investigation into the party’s corruption.
The military is back to its old tricks of doing what it likes but mainly making money by milking dodgy contracts. PPT spend some time writing about the army’s silly and expensive zeppelin (see here and here). The airship purchase was challenged in the press and in parliament. Now all of that opposition has melted away.
The Bangkok Post reports that the “army has approved the delivery of an airship to patrol the troubled South at a cost of 350 million baht…”. This despite the fact that it has failed almost all of the required tests, claims of corruption on price and pressure from General Anupong Paojinda to get the deal done (for his retirement fund?).
The military are back in the trough.
