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摘要

THE last cabinet meeting of Abhisit Vejjajiva's administration on May 3rd was also its longest. Ministers arrived at 8am and burned the midnight oil. And rather as Gladstone, the grand old man of 19th-century British politics, dubbed his own last cabinet meeting in March 1894 "the blubbering cabinet" (because ministers wept at his departure), so Mr Abhisit's last might be called "the spendthrift cabinet". Ministers approved 102 spending proposals, totalling billions of dollars. Plainly, an election is in the offing.