All roads led to Hong Kong

Rumour mills fired up shortly after Paetongtarn Shinawatra announced that her father Thaksin will end his self-imposed exile and return to Thailand on August 10.

Today (Wednesday) is Thaksin’s 74th birthday and he is said to be in Hong Kong, where he will host a birthday party. It is believed that some senior politicians will travel to Hong Kong to join the celebration for Thaksin.

It is for sure that, when they meet with Thaksin in Hong Kong, high on the agenda will be how to break the ongoing political impasse, which is seeing the Pheu Thai party, so far, failing to convince parties outside the eight-party alliance to join the coalition.

Pheu Thai has tried hard to build a bloc of at least 375 House votes for its prime ministerial candidate so that it would not have to rely on the senators’ support. The party does not want to repeat Move Forward’s failure to gain enough…