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Monday, July 1, 2013

Cameron’s Conservatives Should Show Caution Before They Suck Up To Najib


London’s most controversial development project has been taken over by the world’s most controversial palm oil producer – Sime Darby
Relations between the UK and Malaysia should naturally be warm.
However, as Prime Minister Najib Razak makes his way towards the UK this week, David Cameron’s welcome party should concentrate on that friendship with the Malaysian people, rather than selfish financial opportunities.
After all, Najib represents a discredited minority government, which everyone knows would have been obliterated at the recent election, were it not for the massive fraud and bribery that has been impossible to conceal.
The British should therefore be supporting the Malaysian people in their struggle to establish genuine democracy, 50 years after elections were first introduced, rather than flagrantly chasing investment from this corrupted regime.
Of course, faced with endless humiliating exposes over BN’s corruption at home and protests on the streets, Najib will treat this foreign trip to the UK as welcome PR.Cameron should not be turning a blind eye to this
Millions of Malaysians have protested over their cheated election, human rights abuses and BN’s grand corruption. The UK should take heed.
But, Cameron should not be turning a blind eye to the situation or begging for BN’s dirty money, which has been grabbed at the expense of ordinary Malaysians.
However, the UK government will be doing the Malaysian people no favours if they bolster and whitewash this tainted figure. And if they do, it will surely come back to haunt their integrity, just like the Pergau Dam arms for aid scandal haunted Margaret Thatcher.
Beware of the influx of black money
Signs are not promising, however.  All we have seen so far has been a tail-wagging enthusiasm from this current British administration, eager to muscle in on any business or investment it can, few questions asked.
Turning a blind eye? Money is pouring out of Malaysia for all the wrong reasons. Is the UK government prepared to welcome it, no questions asked?
The Malaysian ‘opportunity’ has clearly been seen as a top priority in some circles since the coalition’s first day in office.  Given that individuals who were linked with the Pergau Dam scandal all those years ago are linked to this policy now, have those ties lasted across the intervening two decades?
“This is the first time that a British Prime Minister has come to Malaysia in almost 20 years… my message today is very simple: the era of benign neglect is over. Britain is back: back to do business with Malaysia”[David Cameron, in Kuala Lumpur 12/4/2012]
And the High Commissioner has consistently echoed this sentiment, enthusing at the important business opportunities and proudly presiding over endless official visits, including that of Wills and Kate to scandal torn Sabah.
However, as one senior opposition figure bemoaned to Sarawak Report, “when you try to talk to these UK government figures about Malaysia’s human rights issues and corruption, all they want to speak about is opening a new Tesco in KL”.
Tweets 
Britain has made a few noises about BN’s plunging credibility since the May election, but these have definitely been lost in the thunder of commercial interest.
Consider High Commissioner Simon Featherstone’s gushing twitters last week, as he dashed off to London to lay out the red carpet for Najib’s visit.
Cameron so looking forward – but no mention of democracy protests, just business..
Visiting Foreign Office Minister, Hugo Swire betrayed a similar focus in his own Tweets.
Whoopee! Malaysia is the top property owner in the UK.
Swire may have had a “good discussion” on reform, transparency and liberalisation, however it is “full steam ahead” with the Battersea Power Station development spearheaded by the Malaysian Government owned Sime Darby.
Sime Darby is the world’s largest oil palm company thanks to the devastation of the Borneo Jungle in Sarawak and Indonesia and the destruction of Sumatra.
Burning Borneo – Prime suspect, Sime Darby’s investment in Battersea Power Station has shocked environmentalists and climate change campaigners
The company has emerged as one of the prime suspects for the choking smogs that have engulfed the region in the past days, owing to the plague of slash and burning that oil palm has inflicted on the world’s oldest and most precious rain forests.
It has also been mired incorruption issues as it has started similar activities in the Congo. Just last year the company’s CEO was sacked for barely disclosed corruption, involving native customary lands in Sarawak.
These matters clearly are troubling ordinary Malaysians, who turned out in record numbers at this election to try and get rid of the government responsible.
They ought to trouble Her Majesty’s Government as well.
And as Britain presses for a major arms deal for BAe Systems with Malaysia it should also trouble Her Majesty’s Government that BN’s track record in any such deal is that it only interests them if huge kickbacks are made available to senior politicians – as France’s current Scorpene Submarine trial is currently laying bare.
Malaysia’s London property boom
It is also time that UK ministers considered their policy of encouraging BN’s flow of dubious cash into the UK property market.
This is indeed Malaysia’s money, but it is being invested by individuals who have corruptly channelled it away from the public to whom it belongs. The figures on Malaysia’s scandalous ‘capital flight’ are well known.
BN politicians and former politicians have been crowding into London’s top properties and purchasing whole blocks to run as hotels and serviced apartments – how did they get the money?
Should well-heeled Londoners not be ashamed that this dirty money is being invested there rather than back home in Malaysia, where it is sorely needed to provide health, development and education for people who have been kept impoverished by the greed of BN?
Is this is not a consideration for UK ministers who are gleefully applauding the fact that Malaysians are the “top property owners in the UK”?
BN politicians are eager buyers into London’s ‘gated communities’, much disliked for cutting off areas of the once open capital – Najib himself owns a penthouse in this Kensington enclave.
In which case these same UK ministers are barely considering the interests of their own people in this respect.
While some wealthy political donors may have benefitted from selling over-priced London property to stupidly rich Bumiputeras, the effect has been to increase prices in an inflated housing market, which has been pushing the British out of their own capital city.
So as Najib ‘breaks the earth’ in front of rolling cameras at Battersea next week, the vast majority of Malaysians and British people can probably unite in wondering how much this Cameron/ Najib alliance benefits them or their democratic principles?
The matter is on record. - Sarawak Report

17 comments:

  1. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s four-day working visit to the United Kingdom will further enhance the already blooming relations between the two countries.

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  2. The visit is also to ensure that bilateral trade between the two countries is on track to achieve the target of doubling the trade to RM26 billion by 2016, according to the Malaysian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Datuk Seri Zakaria Sulong, here.

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  3. Zakaria said the goal of doubling bilateral trade between Malaysia and the UK was among the important issues that would be discussed during the meeting between Najib and his British counterpart David Cameron on Thursday.

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  4. The agreement to increase bilateral trade between the two countries from RM13.64 billion last year to RM26 billion within the next three years was reached by the two leaders during Cameron’s first official visit to Malaysia in April last year, since being appointed as Britain’s Prime Minister in May 2010 and also to reciprocate Najib’s official visit to the UK in 2011.

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  5. However, with the existence of a special working group involving the British High Commission and Malaysia’s International Trade and Industry Ministry, he was confident the group would be able to identify new areas that could be explored for mutual benefit.

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  6. Zakaria was speaking to Malaysian journalists here Sunday in conjunction with Najib’s official visit to London beginning Monday.

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  7. Najib is expected to arrive here Monday from Tanzania after a three-day working visit to the African country where he also attended the Global Smart Partnership Dialogue 2013 since Saturday.

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  8. Zakaria said Najib and Cameron were expected to hold bilateral discussions on Thursday before both perform the ground-breaking for the Battersea Power Station project, near here.

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  9. The redevelopment of the power station at a cost of 8 billion pounds (RM39.2 billion) and owned by a Malaysian consortium comprising the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), Sime Darby Bhd and SP Setia Bhd, is Malaysia’s biggest project in the UK.

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  10. Zakaria said Najib’s meeting with Cameron was also expected to touch on the Global Movement of Moderates (GMM) that was introduced by Najib, the concept of which could be applied in facing a changing situation in the UK from homogeneity to multiculturalism, which would be challenging for that country.

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  11. The two leaders would also touch on developments taking place around the globe, especially on the turmoil in Syria and the world trade situation which was still sluggish at the moment, he said.

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  12. “Najib will also attend a media briefing on the 9th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), which will be held in October in London, the first in a non-Muslim country, making the forum a part of the global community.

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  13. Zakaria also said that the prime minister would attend a tea reception with Friends of Barisan Nasional UK (FBNUK), comprising Malaysians staying in the UK and their friends. The association was launched by Najib in May last year during his working visit, here.

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  14. Senior Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Baroness Warsi (Sayeeda Hussain Warsi), who is also Minister for Faith and Community, and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire will be among the distinguished guests at the gathering organised by Lord Sheikh (Mohd Iltaf Sheikh), a supporter of the FBNUK.

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  15. Zakaria said Najib would also be meeting other Malaysians in the UK, including the second of batch of 130 students sponsored by Felda for three months of study at the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, here.

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  16. Najib is also scheduled to launch the 1Malaysia for Youth (1M4U) Outreach Centre UK, the first of such outside of Malaysia that involves the young generation.

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  17. The prime minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, who is accompanying him on his working visit, will visit the TreeHouse School, a school for autistic children, on Tuesday.

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