Way to go, BN

Nothing irks more than people who refuse to admit mistakes, and instead look for excuses, blame others and even feign ignorance.

In the category of people who refuse to admit mistakes is Noh Omar, Mahathir Mohamad and those people masquerading as journalists at Utusan Malaysia.

Instead of accepting that urban Malaysians are rejecting BN because of their arrogance, corruption, abuse of power, low quality leaders (I am not sure we can even call them leaders), dishonesty, lack of integrity, avarice, the likes of Noh and Mahathir prefer to blame others.

Noh says urban voters are ungrateful. I suppose we should be grateful for the fact that our country will never reach its potential because of the thieving ways of BN. It is like a thief asking me to be grateful after a home invasion. Noh and his colleagues forget that we should be grateful to God only for his providence and blessing upon this land of ours.

To put it simply, those of us who are God-fearing cannot support crooks. And that injunction does not recognise any divide, colour or geography.

Of course, Dr Mahathir has built up a career of looking elsewhere. So it should not surprise any of us that in the aftermath of Sarawak elections, he has blamed DAP for introducing racial politics into Sarawak. Of course, he says all this without empirical evidence.

If he had even bothered to do some research or read Bridget Welsh's analysis in Malaysiakini, he would have realised that urban voters across racial lines gave DAP candidates victory.

This means that Bidayuhs, Malays, Dayaks voted for the men in white. But shooting from the hip is easy and mostly inaccurate.

Instead of doing his party and coalition a favour by doing a thoughtful post mortem the doctor performed a hatchet job. But I suppose that it would be asking Dr Mahathir too much to be honest with his assessment because then he would have to admit that he planted the seeds of urban disaffection with BN during his 22 years of excesses.

Always easier looking for a bogeyman.

In the category of feigning ignorance and passing the buck is the prime minister. A pattern which has emerged in the last one year is that when things go awry, Najib Tun Razak looks to take cover from the backlash.

Remember the sports betting licence which was given to Vincent Tan. When it appeared that no amount of ground softening was going to help, the PM cut his losses and said that government only gave conditional approval(never mind that Berjaya made an announcement to the stock exchange).

The second example is the Menara Warisan, that glorious 100-storey building. It was announced by Najib during Budget but when the plan was rejected by the public or should I say, urban Malaysians, he ran for cover.

Which brings me to 1 Malaysia email, the government iniative which morphed from government announcement to private iniative in a matter of days.

At best, the idea by Tricubes Bhd, was ill-conceived and allowed through by a negligent Mr KPI (Idris Jala) and his staff.

At worst, it was a rent-seeking venture, supported and promoted by the government. No checks and balances, just a blank cheque to a company with dubious financials.

Why wouldn't urban Malaysia be disgusted with the people at the helm?

* Ali Kadir reads The Malaysian Insider.