FRIDAY, March 29, 2024
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Chameleons in red shirts

Chameleons in red shirts

Re: “Foreigners should let Thais make the call on red shirts”, Letters, January 29.

I find myself agreeing with Robin Grant, but he is confused, because the red shirts are a chameleon organisation. The 2010 red shirts of the demagogue (“Our shirts are bright red in support of Old Square Head”) appear to be a different group to Jatuporn Prompan’s version of the UDD, which disowns Thaksin Shinawatra.
If the UDD were really a social democrat party, it could sustain a majority in a democratic Thailand, but the new draft charter will put paid to that unless the UDD becomes “the rainbow shirts”.
Richard Bowler
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