Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Thai MPs?

Last week, I saw the news on TV about an anonymous MP was caught by a photographer while he is watching a porn image on his mobile phone during the parliamentary meeting. Later, one of MPs from the democrat party had admitted that he was the person on the picture. Some members of the opposite party try to push him to resign as the MP but he said that it was his friend who sent a message to him, and he just only open and try to delete it. He will not resign anyway.

(Photo from www.manager.co.th)

My point is I’m so disappointed after watching the news. I never thought this would happen in such a place like that. What happen to Thai MPs today? We vote them to work for us and  the parliament is a place where they work , isn't it?  It’s really inappropriate to do that during working hours. In this case, he’d better watch it outside or other places. A thing that he does really destroy the parliament's image. Besides, there’re also other MPs who seem not to care about meetings. Here are some example pictures from www.manager.co.th.





From the pictures above, some is sleeping . Some act chill while they are talking on the phone during meetings. Are these the people that we vote for? How can we trust them to develop our country when they act like this?




3 comments:

  1. The members of parliament must not use mobile phone during meetings. They must be a good model for Thai people. Meeting is a meeting. Members of meeting should talk only their members. The meeting in the parliament is the place for them to discuss about Thailand problems and parliament’s members are the one who have to find the way to solve the problems. Members of parliament in the ancient time did not use mobile phone in the meeting. I do not think it is necessary to use mobile phone in the parliament. They should have the rule to avoid parliament’s members using the mobile phone. If members of parliament cannot avoid using mobile phone during the meeting time how can Thai children avoid using mobile phone in classroom? I think they should have rules or laws to punish person who use mobile phone in the meeting of parliament.

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  2. I think it is difficult to get rid of this kind of MP because I believe that most of the politicians win the election because of the corruption so when they attend the meeting they don’t know anything to discuss in the meeting so they hang out. However, I agree with Thidarat that mobile phone should be banned in the parliament meeting because it shows a bad manner when someone is talking on the phone during the meeting. It is a very common rule that everyone should turn off or set their mobile phone as silent when attending the meeting. I’m surprised that the speaker of the house didn’t say anything about this in the parliament meeting which is the important meeting and the reasons of the meeting will lead to how the country is going to be.

    Jenjira Pukan 540132004

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  3. From my point of view, many of the representatives apply for the parties' candidates just because their own benefits after they win the election. Therefore, it is usual to see a few MP in the parliament meeting room and most of them do not pay attention in the agenda. I agree with my group members that using mobile phones in the meeting room must have to be banned. The member of parliament watched the porn pictures in the parliament meeting room is lower the reliability of the parliament house, either the MP themselves. They are supposed to act like the ones who deserve the admiration.

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