For one thing he claimed, not wholly flippantly, that he needed at least a few free weekends.

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But a PAD ideologue, Kasit Piromya, who refers flippantly to the jolly mood of the airport sit-ins, is now foreign minister.

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The fact that the administration promulgated it so flippantly, without seriously engaging on these issues, underscores how little it cares about either.

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Ben Ramm, editor of The Liberal magazine, said the old rules on MPs' backing were fine and had "never been used flippantly".

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