Thais believe corruption can’t be solved

[troopie]

What a relief -- 'Mr T' is the most honest politician'

Thais believe corruption can’t be solved

BANGKOK: -- Nearly sixty percent of Thais believe Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s government will not succeed in its ‘War on Corruption’, according to the latest opinion poll released on Sunday.

Around a third of those interviewed by the ABAC pollsters believe the government would be able to effectively deal with the country’s corruption.

Two out of every three people surveyed said corruption in government had worsened because of legal loopholes.

More than sixty percent of those interviewed said they believed there was no transparency in the construction of the new Suvarnabhumi airport.

Over half of those surveyed believed that Mr. Thaksin was the most honest politician. Nearly three quarters of them said most politicians were not honest, and over fifty percent believed the ministers in the current
government were not clean.

Nearly sixty percent of those interviewed disagreed with Mr. Thaksin’s recent comments that it was a common practice for suppliers to offer free meals and overseas trips to committee members and designers.

The prime minister’s comments were made recently in connection to the alleged corruption involving the purchase of the bomb scanners for Suvarnabhumi airport's baggage section.

The fact that a third of Thais interviewed felt there was nothing wrong with this practice was not a healthy sign, the director of ABAC Poll Noppadol Kunnika said.

The ABAC poll interviewed 1,975 people in Bangkok and the provinces.

[shakin' boxcar joe]

Lock a few of the corrupt up for a long stretch, confiscate their ill gotten gains and perhaps string one or two of them up as an example to others and I would bet those poll results could be reversed.