Pensive PM at motor show
Despite showing interest in a Bt13-million Jaguar at the Bangkok Motor Show, caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra left Bitec yesterday without buying new wheels.
Thaksin lingered at the Jaguar booth, asking for details of the Jaguar XK, such as when he could take delivery if he ordered it yesterday.Though he seemed momentarily distracted by a yacht, he spent most of his three-hour visit in the luxury-car section, yet even this appeared to pall. "I have seen them all, and I want to go back and enjoy my life," he said, though he admitted that his failure to buy might have something to do with his wife Pojaman having ordered a BMW 740 before the Motor Show opened. He sank briefly into a comfortably appointed Prestichin limousine and remarked that it had its attractions for one who was used to exhaustion. "I get used to tiredness. If I weren't tired there would be no problem. Someone says I will escape with my money so I have to fight by staying still," he said, enigmatically. Thaksin said the current political crisis was having no effect on investment: "Investors are waiting to see whether democracy is suspended. If it is not they will have no objections to investing in this country." Thaksin's son Panthongtae, who accompanied his father, also left without making a purchase. "I can't drive," he explained. - The Nation
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