Wee Ka Siong slams Umno

I don't blame him, I don't want to and will never do. As an Umno member myself, I had expected this tit-for-tat to happen.

When some Umno leaders blamed the Chinese for BN's dismal performance in the 13th general election, and what was described as a 'Chinese tsunami', of course it did hurt many Chinese, especially in MCA, a moderate Chinese party that sits together with Umno in the ruling party.

Now that punches are thrown in the open forum, I hope BN chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will dig out for some solutions to mend 'all the broken hearts'.

Not easy but I personally believe things like these should be discussed behind four walls. During Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's era, no problems among BN component parties should be made public as it would jeopardise the people's confident in it.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19 — MCA's outgoing youth chief Datuk Wee Ka Siong rapped Umno leaders today for their alleged show of racism towards the Chinese during the party's just-concluded congress, and warned that this could lead to a permanent loss of non-Malay support for the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN).

In his speech at the MCA Youth wing annual meet here, the former deputy minister said although the country's second largest ethnic group had not supported the ruling coalition in the May 5 general election, it was wrong for the Umno-led government to punish the community by leaving them out in development policies.
"I want to advice Umno leaders to be more careful in their speeches and their thinking so that it does not move towards extremism.
"If they are dissatisfied with the Chinese voters who did not support BN in the 13th general election and therefore sideline the fight to protect just one race instead of all, I believe this would lead to the Chinese support, as well as all non-Malay support, never returning to BN," Wee said in his opening speech of the wing's annual general meeting.
The outgoing youth chief's words appeared to reflect MCA's underlying anger towards its BN partner's growing right wing tendencies, which is seen as a key reason behind the drop in Chinese votes for the government.

Wee got a point, except that the 'Chinese tsunami' label was more directed at the Chinese who don't belong to any political party, and the Chinese who supported Pakatan Rakyat.

MCA and Umno must go to the drawing board again or at least call for a round table meeting to bury the hatchet and plan a comeback for BN in the next general election. There was a 'Malay tsunami' in 1998 and a 'Chinese tsunami' in 2013 but lets look forward to a 'tsunami of the moderates' in four or five years from now.

The suggestion for IMalaysia be changed to 1Umno (during the party's general assembly last month) was calling for self-destruction, not only for Umno but BN as a whole.

The opposition has already started charting their strategy for 14th general election. What about Barisan Nasional?

From now on, let's everybody "JAGA MULUT!"