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Ever since former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawat was ousted a few weeks back, I have been listening to many of his supporters who are never tired of defending such an inexcusable political figure. Well, they are free to have their say but quite frankly their arguments are just not convincing enough. So I feel like having another pop at Mr Toxin once again.

Before launching an attack on any politician we need to identify the democratic system they belong to. For me, the democracy version of our very own is rather virtuous, and it is not the hazardous declarative democracy that Toxin wanted us to believe it was. That means by western democracy standards, Toxin’s power abuses and constant corruption would have never passed one year of premiership without him being instantly impeached.

I reckon what the guy has done is a clear demonstration of how deeply Thailand’s constitutional checks and balances were subverted. In addition, there is little doubt the Thai judiciary and senate under Toxin’s 6 year rule were always unable to stop him carrying on massive and blatant corruption and conflicts of interests.

Many also argue that a big chunk of his wealth obtained illegally do in fact belong to the Thai people. If possible I would love to see some of it returned and distributed to the deprived Thai rural farmers who were conned into voting Toxin into power. These common people will at all times avoid facing the music for their actions. Surely Toxin should be help account sooner rather than later.

To be perfectly honest, Toxin really made a complete blunder leaving Thailand in the first place. However, because of his guilt of what he has done to the people of Thailand, I believe he should suffer and learn to live in the UK. He probably thought the UK would be the safest place for him to live. Obviously he was wrong. I used to live there and know that the UK is rife with street gangsters and mafias who will now be working hard to rip Toxin out with all his cash leaving him naked with bugger all.

Many people in Bangkok, including myself, seriously hope he never returns to Thailand again and this is quite a punishment for him. It can be such an irony but the Brits are sick of their own lives living in the middle of nowhere and many have moved to Thailand but this man chose to seek exile there. What an absolute fool.

Personally, I am still outraged at how Toxin corrupted the rural villages with his financial muscles to win their support and give him the top job. I have to say I would not be so hostile towards him if he’d had a bit of integrity, political transparency and accountability with his premiership.

But he simply refused to submit himself to the constitution. Instead he attempted to provoke his undereducated countryside followers to a rural-urban confrontation. That was completely intolerable. It clearly demonstrated that Toxin was capable of anything - even allowing bloody confrontations to cling onto his dictatorial rule.