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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the dissolution of the Thai Parliament. We don't really like to get overly political on this channel although legality does have a tendency to kind of rub up against politics or policy making. This is a pretty important milestone if you will just historically even for Thailand, I think it is worth noting and it has legal ramifications. 

So Thai Parliament has dissolved. My print copy of the Bangkok Post had a headline that just said "House dissolved" and somebody around here threw it away, I was intending to just hold it up in this video but yeah the House has dissolved. What does this mean? Well effectively, it means sort of the peaceful transfer of power to whatever the forthcoming Government will be has been initiated. I would just kind of like to take this opportunity and for those out there if I am going to get burned by folks in the comments or whatever, I really don't care because quite honestly you haven't been here most of you especially foreigners that are talking about certain things having to do with this and just I am not trying to be negative but oftentimes I don't think you fully understand the practical implications, the day-to-day implications, just everything that has gone on. This is kind of the culmination of about eight years here going back to 2014, to the coup and I do have to say I really have got to take my hat off here to Prime Minister Prayut. I have been heavily critical oftentimes on this channel of certain things, things associated with the Government, things associated with his Government and I am not going to sort of apologize for that but I do have to say, having been here for all of this, the stability provided the last 8 years in light of the massive changes that Thailand has dealt with in both a broader historical sense as well as the more acute stuff like just for example the COVID lockdowns and things which as we have discussed many times in this channel, I had serious issues with but at the end of the day, we got through that and we have gotten the country reopened. Could things have been done differently? Yes. Could they have been done better? I think in many cases probably and I think reasonable people can disagree but long story short, I have got to say, I have got to take my hat off to Prime Minister Prayut, now caretaker Prime Minister Prayut, this has not been easy. Maintaining stability and letting people get on with their lives, earn their living with all of this crazy stuff going on swirling around us at all times that takes a fortitude and it takes someone who clearly cared about the country to undertake that sort of task to sort of just move things forward if you will. 

So again there are probably some in comments or whatever that would view me a sort of an apologist or something, not my point at all. I've been here, I have gotten a pretty good glimpse at what the alternative could have been under many circumstances and honestly I don't think it would have been better, in fact I think it would have been far worse. I was here in 2009 and '10 when we saw things get rather out of hand and that was not a good scenario that played out. So long story short, this is a very good development and I think it has put this country on to a good path moving forward and a path towards seeing the future of Thailand being brighter than it has been in the past.