BANGKOK – Claiming “continued victory over the forces of opinion-having,” Democratic Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva inaugurated an event on Saturday celebrating the party’s 25th consecutive year of not having any political platform. At an understated dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Athenee Hotel on Wireless Road, Democratic Party leaders and about 200 senior officers sat down to a gala dinner evening filled with keynote speeches expounding and praising Thailand’s oldest political party and attributing its longevity to its consistent absence of opinions, positions, or remotely distinguishable ideas. “In a world of increasingly ugly partisanship, where extremist views and cults of personality have shaken the foundations of national unity, the Democrats stand alone in their refusal to feel anything about anything or anyone, or at least not to express those feelings in public,” continued Abhisit, to sustained but controlled applause. He vowed that the party would soon take control of Parliament, “as long as it was okay with the CNS. And Prem.”
