I söndagens krönika ”the Big Issue” i Bangkok Post myntade krönikören begreppet ”Shin-kicking”. Rätt kul och sarkastiskt skrivet på temat hur man från regimens sida skyller allt ont i Thailand på Thaksin Shinawatra med klan. Prayuth-regimen verkar nästan vara duktigare på” Shin-kicking” än MPR:s politiska proffstyckare och det är i sanning imponerande. ![]()
Störst humor blir det när man beskyller Yingluck och ris-programmet för nuvarande torka (!) . OTOP har tydligen också fått sig en rejäl känga. Mer allvarligt blir det när det drivs kampanjer för att slopa 30 bahts-reformen (gratis sjukvård alltså) och införa ökade avgifter (Prayuth har dock senare dementerat att några sådan planer finns). Mönstret är ändå tydligt enligt krönikören. ”Shin-kicking” kommer att fortsätta:
”Shin-kicking will continue, apparently, until morale improves. Part of returning happiness is taking what some people regard as the only significant achievement of the Evil One’s time in office — the 30-baht medical scheme. They laughed at Lord Voldemort for promoting it; they hated him for its success.
According to the leader, it’s populist, it’s too expensive and it would be better if the country also returned to the past where poor, sick people occasionally got some medical attention at district clinics.
He won’t do that, of course, but it was an extremely violent round of Shin-kicking. There is so little dissent against universal health care that it is remarkable that the premier attacked it on any grounds, let alone the strange claims that it is both populist and too expensive, when neither is actually true.
The week’s triple Shin-kicking may be part of an overall programme to dismantle everything that happened in politics since 2001 except the military budget increases. That would indicate the road to the next democratic election is longer than officially stated”
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/613080/the-big-issue-wrecking-ball

