Re: "Coming out swinging", (BP, Oct 23), and "New parties present faint flicker of hope", (Opinion, Oct 22).
As an observer of Thai politics for half a century, those middle-path parties, mostly offspring of the large parties, are wasting their time and money in hoping to be the odd ones that big parties wishing to govern have to rely on their fractional votes. This has been the vicious circle of Thai politics since the oldest party, the Democrat Party, has declined in popularity and become a hopeless case in itself, for forming the next government.
