Less is Beautiful.

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The subject matter today, is what Dr Mahathir has written. As everybody knows, Dr Mahathir is a sage like figure. What he says have far reaching impact on Malaysian politics. No one can ignore him. Those who do will be imperilled. So, Dr Mahathir continues to hover menacingly at Dato Najib's cabinet.

It is just like the cartoon drawn by Lat. Yes, the one showing Dr Mahathir telling Mukhriz that even though the son is in government, that does not mean he will stop bashing the government.

It is obvious that the bashing will continue unless each and everyone's qualifications in the cabinet, meets Dr Mahathir personal criteria. That will certainly include the requirement that one has to be absolutely corruption free. They will have to be wholesome person, not the half past six types. The present cabinet is only partly good when it did not admit Khairy Jamaludin. It was more or less corruption free even though one or two has gotten in.

Dr Mahathir will save this country and spare Dato Najib further heartaches if he actually names the one or two fellows. There are so many taint free people who can serve this country. Shahrir Samad who did not pay money in the UMNO general assembly can be called in. Everyone knows Shahrir Samad's single obsession is to bash Dr Mahathir at every turn.

We can now regard Dato Najib's decision to retain Herr Nazri Aziz in the cabinet as a wise move. Nazri will not back out from bashing Dr Mahathir. Nazri is also not exactly lovey dovey with Mukhriz. He will be the crass voice that Najib isn't. Then again, maybe Dr Mahathir has included Nazri in his list of unsavoury characters. If so why not named Nazri as one of the characters?

It is also now clear, that the one or two fellows term used by Dr Mahathir is just a figure of speech. The Najib cabinet is still filled up by unsavoury characters.

We have the right to know who the unsavoury characters are. The unsavoury characters would certainly want to know because they want a right to defend their honour too. Is being part of the previous cabinet sufficient to qualify that fellow as an unsavoury type? That would mean almost 90% of the Abdullah cabinet including Dato Najib and Muhyiddin Yassin. That would be patently wrong. In view of that, we need a clear indication from Dr Mahathir.

The cabinet is filled up with:-

1. Unsavoury type- No
   
2. Less unsavoury-Yes
   
3. More unsavoury-No
   
4. Most unsavoury-definitely No
   
5. Corrupt -No
   
6. less corrupt-Yes
   
7. More corrupt.-No
   
8. Corrupt like KJ-No
   
9. Less corrupt than KJ-Yes
   
10. More corrupt than KJ.-No
    

 

It would seem that to pass Dr Mahathir's acid test the cabinet member or non cabinet member of the Team Najib must be:-

Types , 2, 6, 9. These are the types that elicit yes answers.

These are people who scored least in every category. Maybe we should add less clever. Small is beautiful. Less is beautiful too. Stated with apologies to EF Schumacher.