BERSATU AND TS MUHYIDDIN TAKE NOTE : PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS ??

 My Comments below.

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By Mohammad Natsir
 
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia: Former prime minister Muhyddin Yassin undoubtedly a charismatic & popular Malay Leader got toppled from the Apex, thanks to his bossom buddies from the State of Johor. Muhyiddin the scion of a religious leader, educated in English and groomed by Tun Dr Mahathir himself, held many crucial cabinet posts.
 
Intelligent, hardworking and humble, Muhyiddin is loved by many. All Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia) and Malaysian Islamic Party (Parti Islam Se-Malaysia) members should be upset. Both parties form the National Alliance (Perikatan Nasional).
 
Muhyddin made the strategic blunder of entrusting cerebral matters to his inner circle. An inner sanctum consisting of a privileged few including the Alma matter poster boy - S-----n M---oob.  Tragically, S-----n was to dispense crappy advice.   
 
While steering the National Recovery Council (NRC), S------n imputed dodgy indices into their strategy formulation. The Enterprise performance Index had a meagre 300-plus respondents in their mailing list while the Consumption indicator Index had approximately three times more. Aside from not doing rigorous mathematical modelling and not producing any reports. It is not clearly known what the NRC did, aside from the fact that both Muhyddin and S------n enjoyed generous remuneration packages.
 
the outfit which supplied the NRC key metrics had a Researcher from the People's Republic of China (PRC) as their key researcher.

More recently, one particular sausage seller that used to operate a pizza and spaghetti parlour in Bangsar became associated with a policy initiative outfit.
 
The outfit also have persons who maybe persona non grata in Johor in its ranks.
 
S------n’s partner also from Johor also comes into the picture. She is reportedly a public health expert.
 
Poor Muhyiddin ought to be careful of his inner circle. What is required is constant vigilance and robust security measures.
 
I feel sorry for Muhyiddin as his bosom buddies have abandoned him, 

today they are busy trying to jump in the Malaysia Madani Bandwagon!
 
Not having any clear insight, while constantly shifting alliances, Muhyiddin’s friends have left him high and dry. Marooned and having to face the music alone, this is how unfortunate Muhyiddin is today.
 
*Mohammad Natsir is an observer of Southeast Asian affairs and political commentator.*

 

My comments :

Of course I have removed so many references to individuals and other comments by the author. 

But there is an overiding theme to all this - EVERYTHING IS THE SAME. 

The tricks are the same, the tricksters are the same, the scheming is the same, the switching allegiances, stabbing in the back are all the same. Nothing has changed.

WHY IS THAT SO? Because the policies have not changed. Nothing has changed.

EVERY SINGLE POLICY THAT GOT UMNO / BN KICKED OUT OF POWER IS STILL IN PLACE.

Lets take education. I have mentioned the Razak Report (1956 by Tun Abdul Razak) and the Rahman Talib Report (1960).  Both are solid, 100% UMNO party documents, designed more to preserve Umno' political power than to develop the country's education (which by the way was in perfect condition in the 1960s).

The Razak Report (1956) and the Rahman Talib Report (1960) have basically guided the failure of our education policy until today. Remember it takes decades to destroy a country's administrative systems (education, health, security, etc etc)

But UMNO is no more in power. UMNO/BN lost in 2018. And there have been FOUR other governments put in place since then. Yet NOT ONE of these four "new" governments made any changes to all the failures of the UMNO/BN government of 61 years. THEY ALL KEPT THE SAME POLICIES.

Hence this opinion by the writer above. 
The orang putih will say 'same wine different bottle'. 
In our local context it is 'same sambal belacan different packaging'.

We need change. If Bersatu wants to be a force in the country they must change their thinking. So far there is nothing new.  

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