Some funny people in Bangkok Post (one of Thailand English speaking magazines) wanted to know what kind of Visa Thaksin had on arrival in UK?
Its a good question because all my friends who tried to get a visa in UK know that its very hard to convince them that they are not going to jump the ship and stay there. You really need to convince the embassy that you are actually going back to Thailand. In the former PM case i guess he has all the reason to stay and would not be granted visa if he was asked to apply for one. But maybe he comes on an asylum visa seeking refuges for all his money. As the rumor now goes he took 2 planes out full with handbags when he left Thailand 2 days before the coup.
The Thailand junta has now starting to ban more things.They just ban all political parties to do any rallies or any political activities. They also ban or wire tapping, maybe that a good thing because the former PM does have all the contacts in the area and the coup people do not. I guess it is the most easy thing to do, ban this and ban this even if there is no real punishment. The students holding a meeting for more then 5 people yesterday did not get arrested. There was some tanks and soldiers there to keep an eye on things but they did nothing to stop the meeting. Hopefully this coup will continue to be a coup with flowers on the tanks rather than guns.
