Muhyiddin scores again over Najib: Admits Malaysia had been a colony

Unlike his boss, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin seems to be pressing all the right buttons. Instead of foolishly trying to rely on a technicality to subvert what is a long-standing fact and well-accepted by the people in the country, Muhyiddin finally admitted Malaysia was to all and intents and purposes a colony of the British prior to receiving Independence in 1957.

His response immediately won him points, and he is already being perceived as the more steady and reliable statesman compared to Prime Minister Najib Razak. Instead of common sense, Najib had reverted to dark threats and the long arm of the law to charge PAS deputy president Mat Sabu of criminal defamation over the Bukit Kepong incident.

Many have accused Najib of unscrupulous 'blowing with the wind' polemics, taking lines of action not because they were right but because he thought it was what would please the Malay community and make them support him.

However, it has been obvious the PM had miscalculated, and Muhyiddin is now cleaning up for Umno and BN over the incident that has turned many Malaysians including the Malays against BN.

"Have we been colonised? Yes! We have been celebrating our independence every year. It can't be for nothing," Muhiddin told Parliament on Tuesday.

He was replying a supplementary question from Azmin Ali, the PKR MP for Gombak.

Muhyiddin said that, while some argue the Malay sultans only received 'advice' from the British, he is of the opinion that they were under the indirect, if not direct control, of the British Ruler.

"They received advice from the British residents, but the advice must be accepted. The sultans were not free to rule," the DPM admitted.

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