So let the protesters think of themselves. It’s their country. The Thai people strike me as incredible in the way they ensure hardship yet remain polite and good spirited so they must be really wound up about something.

I don’t even say that the PAD are in the right. Just that if any comparatively rich foreigners had been in England during the General Strike or in The U.S. during an anti-Vietnam protest and then declared the protest to be cock-a-mamy merely because they suffered some inconvenience I don’t think they would have got much sympathy.

There was another bit on the news with a middle class British family who had moved into a hotel. Sitting in their air conditioned room the wife declared the protesters “immature”. I can’t find this video.

I think some things are more important that convenience, especially when you are a guest in someone else’s country.

The way I look at this protest is that thousands of Thai people are protesting and it is their country. For an outsider to condemn their dispute in such an insulting way merely because he might miss a holiday shows ignorance.

If there were thousands of Americans protesting and closing one of their airports I don’t think it would be right to call American uncivilised or their protest cock-a-mammy.