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So we don't often do these but it is kind of a major event I guess you could say in Parliament at the moment. We are going through what is described sort of in the Press as the No Confidence Debate regarding the leadership of Paetongtarn Shinawatra here in Thailand, the Prime Minister here. And basically, let's just get into it. 

I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: Premier laments debate timing. Quoting directly: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has admitted that she may not be able to make it through the first day of a no confidence debate against her as it will drag on until 5:30am on the following day." Well yeah, I mean yeah. The reason for the thumbnail, what is the thumbnail? Well we are talking about a movie called Diggstown, it's got James Woods who I'm a big fan of, if this goes out on Twitter or something or across YouTube, hats off to James Woods, love James Woods. Diggstown, great movie, kind of underrated. I won't say it is forgotten because those that know it love it, but it's one of those movies that I think is just often overlooked; I don't know how to put it. That said, look there's a great scene; they're promoting a boxing event. They have a bet going and this guy had bet that a boxer can beat I think it's 10 men in one day and then they are having a negotiation as to what the definition of, it was "10 men in town". What is the town? I think they say, "the town is all of their county" and a day is "24 hours". So they have this sort of compromise, what is a day? Well here in Thailand, it looks like the debate is 28 hours so that's the way that that works. That said, quoting further: "The censure debate is scheduled to take place from Monday to Tuesday. Opposition parties were allocated 28 hours to question the Prime Minister, while the Government and Cabinet were given 7 hours to address the questions. Two hours were set aside for the House Speaker and his deputies, who oversee the proceedings." 

Yeah this is a pretty big deal. I mean, I just recently put up a video where I said the Prime Minister stands alone, and that is true in and of itself, but the proceeding itself is quite an event. I mean this is going to be a day and a half worth of Parliamentary proceedings here and again I do not envy the Prime Minister. Tip of the hat to you ma'am, for going through all of this, this is something else. That said, I think it is warranted, necessary. There was a recent article this morning as of the time of this video in the Bangkok Post, I may do a video and mention it, but maybe not. I was reading the editorial section, and they brought up the fact that, yeah this is a pretty good turning point I would say in terms of recent Thai politics. I think, my personal opinion is she is probably going to weather this no confidence vote, or you can look at it as a vote of confidence also; it sort of depends on how you look at it. Cup half full, half empty. 

I think ultimately, she will probably weather it and move forward and frankly if that is the way that things go, I think that would be a good thing overall. We can just sort of put, especially the last couple of years, COVID and all of this stuff, be able to put that behind us all and sort of move forward. Not necessarily on a clean slate but at least we have kind of aired things and got it out there and kind of move it along. I think that would overall be a good thing. That said, it remains to be seen how this plays out. We will certainly be keeping you updated on this channel as the situation evolves.