COMMENT | What will come next? Simple, quickest, honest answer: Who knows.
COMMENT | Two regime changes in less than two years says an awful lot about the place. Malaysia is a basket case – a Third World country with grand pretensions of turning First World by 2020, with democratic affectations. Dream on.
Muhyiddin Yassin may be the eighth prime minister but he’ll go down in history as the Belakang Masuk PM, aided and abetted by his three gorillas: Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who faces court over RM13 million corruption, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and the ever-reliable former PKR deputy president Azmin Ali. All three have form. If you’re a betting person you’d put your last sen on these ponies to make you a neat little bundle.
But to deliriously cavort with downright racists, the criminally insane and Taliban doppelgängers is the hallmark of a desperate man. But, wait: Didn’t he one time say he’s “Malay first”? Yet Malaysian analysts, these supposed academics, crawled out of the woodwork to confirm in peerless kowtow fashion that Muhyiddin is a man of saintly principles and high mind. Pfft! Prove it.
Muhyiddin also played the long game. Who would’ve thought he had the faculty to outfox the fox who people so credulously said for decades couldn’t be outfoxed. Just goes to show. But that’s not all: Muhyiddin outwitted Anwar too, despite the latter’s pompous philosophising. Talk about knocking off two birds with one stone. And they were big buzzards. Bigger than any political figure from Malaysia’s past.What will come next? Simple, quickest, honest answer: Who knows.
Or is Muhyiddin now like the king in the popular nursery rhyme? You’ve probably forgotten it, or don’t know it, seeing English hasn’t been the medium of instruction in Malaysia for donkey’s years. Here’s not the modern rendition of the rhyme but the original version as it appeared in Tommy Thumb’s ‘Pretty Song Book’ circa 1744 in London. The first verse went like this:Familiar? It goes on about the king in his counting house counting out his money.
Right up to May 9, 2018, the losers were sold Umno lemons – 61 unbroken years of rabid racism, lies, corruption, cronyism, kleptocracy. Then for 22 months after that, they were sold the Malaysia Baru lemon, which, clearly, never stood a chance. Never planted a single root the entire time. Last weekend the losers got – ho, ho, ho! – an early Christmas present.
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