
I fully agree that “questions (are) to make us think and hence develop our ‘own’ thoughts and ideas” - and thus should not be leading.
Thus, I enthusiastically support his recasting of PM Prayut’s questions so that they are unbiased. For example, he asks, “How can we encourage and enable the general public to peacefully exert control over its elected officials (at all levels)... in order to hold them to account and ensure that they serve the needs of all sectors of society?”
I recast Prayut's original questions to show that they were leading and could easily be used to engineer a specific outcome. I did not put words into Yingluck’s mouth. On the contrary, I stated that I was recasting Prayut’s lines of thought to see them from her point of view, to show how leading the drafts were.
To achieve his aim of finding out what we the people wish, Prayut should immediately substitute P Jackson’s questions for his original ones. Better yet, the PM should encourage the different political colours to engage in extensive, inclusive, cross-colour discussion of Jackson's version - with the conclusions being given to him as the joint opinions of all of us.
Burin Kantabutra