The ThaiVisa forum is burning.
Apparently, the forum received from a good source an information regarding a “booze ban“.
“No alcohol will be served to expats, tourists or local residents in bars and restaurants over the next two weekends nationwide due to the oncoming election.
The first dry days will be 14, 15 and 16 December, pre-election days for a few million Thais who registered to vote early.
Elections on the 23rd will mean no alcohol will be sold from 6pm on the 22nd till midnight on the 23rd of December.“
People are pissed off (if I may say) because it’s the high season of course, and it could dammage business.
Normally, the government imposes a ban on alcohol only the day of the vote (starting the night before). So this year, a ban on 2 week ends would be a novelty.
A comment : personally I don’t really care… But the principle is disturbing. Why authorities treat constantly thai citizen like children ?
If a thai adult wants to drink the day of the vote, I mean, why they should care ? Why the State should care ? Where is the problem ?
It could seem like a small technical detail… but from my point of view it summarizes very well many problems in this country.
The nanny state reaches a nonsensical zenith in Thailand. If I were Thai, I would be screaming about this nonsense. But Thais are trained from birth not to demur.
Too much to hope for that
1. Thais will act like grown-ups
2. the Thai government will treat Thais like grow-ups
Not this side of hell freezing over I suspect. Essential to keep the drones droning and the worker ants working I suppose, that way the rich get risher and the poor… wll, the poor can like it or lump it.
Bedwyr
Just another way the Thai bureaucracy tries to look after the people of Thailand. The funny thing is that the people that do have a vote drink at home for the most part, or at least outside the city they do. It’ll just mean the village still will have to work overtime for a couple of days.