SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES SAYS THEY ARE KAPUT.

 This is edited and adapted from Straits Times Singapore here. 

As usual I have reworded it some.

The self-inflicted loneliness.
MGR risks losing conservatives and reformists who brought him to power.
He is now estranged from his non-Malay voters, progressives and moderates.
finally took office 2022 - after nearly three decades (of talking crap).
His coalition did not win an outright majority 
stitch together unlikely govt with former rivals
after four years cultivating 'hutang budi' 
thrown into jail for abuse of power, sodomy 
less than four years later (2026) mood has shifted markedly

(OSTB: After being duped for 24 years his own supporters can now smell through the chicken sh_t crap in less than four years - since 2022)

• Poor popular support
• Among the Malay-Muslim majority, PN remains dominant. 
• PN huge gains across six states in 2023 state elections 
• DAP (also full of crap)  
• UMNO starting to distance itself from MGR 
• frustration growing within own support base
• estranged from non-Malay minorities (especially Indians).
• Sabah polls Nov 2025 brutal defeat for MGR
• winning just one of 22 seats contested
• DAP lost all eight seats it contested
• huge losses set off alarm bells within DAP
• DAP lost two-thirds of its votes compared to 2020 Sabah polls
• DAP annual congress in July to decide future in coalition
• starting to look very lonely for MGR 
• His own worst enemy
• his loneliness is for the most part self-inflicted
• overpromised but underdelivered 

• Some recent controversies:

1. pig farming ban in Selangor
2. “illegal Hindu temples”
3. UEC –  holders limited to four Chinese studies programmes.
4. repeated expansion of the sales and service tax 
5. stricter tax compliance with e-invoicing
6. R--izi quit Cabinet after losing party position
7. criticism over alleged vote-rigging and nepotism (party polls)
8. daughter's rise within the party
9. MACC “corporate mafia” scandal
10. abuse powers, to intimidate, manipulate, blackmail business figures 
11. forced to let MACC chief go in May
12. MACC investigated former economy minister over RM1.1b govt deal 
13. increasingly picking fights with journalists, civil society, activists 

• party convention in Johor, security personnel scuffled with reporters 
• seeking to question MGR
• growing discomfort with scrutiny
• great leader less tolerant of criticism now
• alienating very constituencies that supported them

• UMNO worst-ever electoral performance in 2022
• yet disproportionately large share of Cabinet positions 
• now UMNO distancing itself from MGR 
• UMNO partnership already fraying
• April UMNO withdrew support for Negeri chief minister 
• In Johor UMNO ended electoral pact  - to contest all 56 seats in Johor
• Sarawak GPS declared to eliminate DAP in S'wak by April 2027

My Comments:

Well folks when you spend so much time playing in the sh_tter, you are bound to end up inside the sh_thole. This is what is happening now. 

My friends and I spent about 38 years (since about 1988) campaigning not only against this dud-speak but also against his entire entourage of not-too-clever beggars. 

It is a complete failure of some sections of our voting public who until today do not know the difference between a sh_tter and a sh_thole. They really liked the fellow's crap.

However I must give due regard to the Malay Muslim voters - in the 80s and 90s they were his largest support base.  But that support base has now vanished - vaporised into thin air. 

If you are a Malay politician and you do not have Malay support you do not have a future in politics.  This has happened to Najib Razak. it happened to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (Dr M lost his deposit). And it has happened to MGR.

Najib got kicked out because he stole from the people.

Dr Mahatir got kicked out because he made the Malays (plus others) poorer. (The Malays could only afford to buy the cheapest tin can 'national' cars - but at exhorbitant prices).

Democracy works. Muck around and you will get kicked out. FAFO.

The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.