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'I Didn't Expect This' -Thaksin

"I didn't expect that this will happen. I came here as prime minister but left as an unemployed man. "That's fine that no one gives me a job. I volunteered to work but the didn't want to give me (the) job, so it's fine."

— Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, as he left the United Nations meetings in New York early on Sep. 20. He has arrived in London, and so have members of his family.