Thai Minister attacks Queen Elizabeth II

Jonathan Head of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was the presenter for this media den of anarchy and Lese Majeste. Jonathan Head: Ha ha. Do you have any other questions? If you're bold enough to come up. Please. Could you identify yourself as well? Colin Snow: Thank you, Jonathan. Colin Snow, member of the club. First time actually standing up here. We've heard quite a lot of comments about the patronage system and whether it's a good thing or not here. It occurs to me though that in the United Kingdom which is sometimes described as being the home of democracy, the upper house, which is the House of Lords, is entirely appointed by the monarch. This has gone back over many, many years now, many centuries in fact. We have the hereditary peers who in some cases have got titles going back for in some cases for several hundred years. We have people appointed as lifetime peers but that is the upper house of the United Kingdom. It is also of course the highest court of the land if you really have a big problem you're entitled to go to the House of Lords, perhaps you could comment on why the patronage system is not successful? Jonathan Head: Would Thailand borrow anything from, I don't expect you'd want to borrow from Britain. Is there a comparison between, we have an unelected an upper house in Britain. I'm not sure what you've got in Thailand. Jakrapop: Well I don't know to answer that exactly but my knowledge about the British system is why watching the movie "the Queen". So I don't actually know .. but they saw how the Queen transformed with the Tony Blair's popularity. She adjust and that's a good lesson. But I don't know but how some Lords or the upper house in Britain but I believe that they don't give them too much power and they learn their place., they know that they are noble so they do nothing dirty, that's what I think. Ajarn Worapol: Very short answer, you have to look at your constitution, look at the extent of power of the House of Lord and House of Common, you will see that Colin Snow: Point of order Mr chairman , we don't have constitution. Ajarn Worapol: Yes, thank you but the point is that they extend the power of House of Lord may or may not equal to the extent of power of Senate here because Senate here can remove Prime Minister from post. Jonathan Head: Which actually can never happen with the House of Lords, or never has, any other questions? Jakrapop: Excuse me, could any one answer me how many members do you have in the House of Lords as supposed to the House of Representatives? Do you know any, I means just .... I don't know about it. Do they have equal numbers, the 2 Houses? Jonathan Head: No eh it's about between 2 and 300 in the House of Lords, Jakrapop: Oh

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