Sunday, 10 May 2020
The no confidence vote is an exercise in futility.
I never knew Saloma sang this song.
I admire TDM. I have described him as'the man who can walk on water. He can do impossible things. I have called him the 'Don Corleone 'of Malaysian politics. His place in history is already assured.
He has submitted a motion of no confidence against Muhyiddin. The speaker has accepted it. Malaysia will be in for another round of political Tsunami.
But I am afraid it will be a bridge too far for TDM this time. And I will tell you the reasons why. I don't expect universal agreement though.
Muhyiddin is still the president of BERSATU is he? Isn't it easier to purge him?. Is Dr Mahathir practising a form of political infanticide?
Is TDM the hippopotamus beach master killing the baby hippo? He may have 1001 valid reasons but the majority of Malaysia will be against TDM. This time.
I am aware that some people saw Muhyiddin did a power grab and rise to power was unconstitutional. I beg to differ. Muhyiddin saw an opportunity and seized it. He was an effective leader. Its just that.
Pakatan may not be unified as one thinks. They may sleep on the same pillow but dream different dreams.
DAP sees itself as lord of shanghai. Didn't Anwar says he will not play second fiddle to Mahathir any more? AMANAH will do what Mat Sabu says. They will bend with the wind.
Mahathir does not know how to lose. One's personal ambitions knows no bounds.
In any case how long more can we endure Mahathir. Surely we cannot have a PM who is 100? At that time some men play with their own urine and faeces.of course Mahathir is no mere mortal.
The reasonable man will not want anything of it. He is not the man on the Clapham omnibus. The MPs are not the men on the Piccadilly commuter tube either. Both do read in between the lines.
They read it as Mahathir wanting to leave a legacy.
I know this issue will be played out in Parliament. But the MPs have a duty to read correctly what the people want. Reading correctly means they have to repudiate the no confidence motion.
We have to also consider the political fatigue that has drowned the people. Mahathir's move the other day threw the country in turmoil. People are tired of political intrigues. One more is too much!
Muhyiddins administration has 2 great things going for it. The measures taken to combat COVID-19 show the people they are protected.
The slew of financial measures show people they are cared for.
The same cannot be said of the Pakatan government. They are more interested to run the country as a business unit. They are manually driven zombies.
The people now want stability and certainty. They didn't get that from the Pakatan government. The MP's have a duty to give them to the people.
For these reasons I think the no confidence motion ought to be rejected. It's an abuse of Parliamentary privilege.
I will end this article with 2 things a friend said.
"Worry is a misuse of the brain"
"Sometimes there's nothing we can do but wait for the rain to subside and the sun to shine again."
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