Yingluck's Booby Traps

From a little opinion piece in Wednesday’s The Nation – never known to be a supporter of the new government, but interesting all the same.

Titled “Six booby traps waiting to blow a hole in Yingluk’s government”, each is given a severity rating of 1 – 10. Subjects include Cabinet appointments, impossible promises made during the election and the Preah Vilhear Temple conflict.

The only ‘10’ rating is left to last – “The Thaksin big bang.” The writer points out -

Contacts with the man when Pheu Thai was in opposition were one thing, but flying to see him, having him phone in, or letting him publicly dispense advice to the government from now on could trigger a catastrophe.

 

Yingluck and many Pheu Thai members will be "state officials" in a few days and Thaksin remains a fugitive convict. Every law requires her to find his whereabouts or seek his arrest, and her opponents will take full advantage of that. They will keep their radar on around the clock, not for whether she will fulfil that obligation, but for whether she or other government officials are keeping in contact with him.

 

Fair or unfair, this is potentially a nuke that could blow the new government away. All it'll take to detonate is a wayward Cabinet member found in Dubai or Brunei or a loose-tongued justice minister who announces "I talked to him last night."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2011/07/20/opinion/Six-booby-traps-waiting-to-blow-a-hole-in-Yingluck-30160661.html

I wonder which Murdoch phone-hacker will be called in as a consultant to the opposition