BERSATU / PERIKATAN NASIONAL WIPED OUT AGAIN, SECOND TIME. TIME FOR SERIOUS RETHINK.

 Bersatu has lost the Mahkota by-elections as well. They lost Nenggiri too.

• UMNO secured  fourfold majority over PN in Mahkota
  
• UMNO's Syed Hussien secured 27,941 votes
• PN Mohamad Haizan garnered 7,347 votes.
• commanding majority of 20,648 votes
• crushing defeat for PN, similar to loss in Nenggiri  
• voter turnout 53.84%
• Despite lower turnout, BN landslide
• BN swept all 18 polling districts
  

• PN chairman Muhyiddin Yassin must accept blame for wipeout
• PN leadership reshuffle long overdue 

• PN lost support from both Malay and non-Malay voters
• increased votes for UMNO despite lower overall turnout
• PN should focus on livelihood issues and socioeconomy
• presenting new solutions compared to PH/BN
• non-Malay voters want non-racist, moderate policies
• progressive parties like PH rather than conservative ones like PN
• Non-Malay votes lost cause for PN
• PN unpopular among younger voters

My Comments :

With all due respect to Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin he must stand aside and let Hamzah Zainuddin take over the leadership of Bersatu as well as Perikatan Nasional.

And please break with Pas. Pas is of no benefit to Bersatu or PN. Do not be surprised if after this second major loss by the PN, that Pas does a backdoor play with PKR and PH. 

Pas can drop PN and team up with PH at the drop of a kopiah. Dont say I did not warn you. 

But the real problem with Bersatu is that Bersatu is still dancing to the old lagu-lagu zaman black and white TV. 

• DEAR TAN SRI BAJU, SONGKOK, KOT PUN BLACK AND WHITE JUGA!! 
• WE NEED NEW COLOURS.
  

Bersatu has lost both the Malay and non-Malay vote. 

Theresa Kok (DAP) is suing that Pemuda UMNO fellow yet the UMNO candidate won Chinese votes as well in Mahkota. How do you explain that?

There is absolutely NO DIFFERENCE between Bersatu / PN or PH/BN. 

All of you are still selling the same policies that were put in place 50 years ago which ultimately got BN kicked out (2018), Dr Mahathir 2.0 got kicked out (2020), Tan Sri Muhyiddin got replaced (2021) and Ismail Sabri got kicked out 2022. 

Then in 2023 the PH actually lost the SIX State By-elections to PN. Well it looks like those SIX State By elections in 2023 were a watershed. Because since then the PH is performing better than the PN. They won big in Nenggiri and now this landslide in Mahkota.

What is happening is after more time has passed, the people are seeing that Bersatu and PN really are not offering anything new. You are not offering anything new that is different from PH - which is actually the same old failed policies of the past 50 years. 

But Malay sentiment has helped in Johor and of course the Chinese just do not like Pas. Nobody likes Pas. Get rid of them. Let them go and join PH and pull PH down.

Bersatu should not waste time on really useless issues like "we are adamant that vernacular schools be abolished".  What the hell for? Almost 20% of the over 500,000 students at Chinese schools are Malays. That is about 100,000 Malay kids in Chinese schools. That means 200,000 Malay parents or 200,000 Malay voters will be angry if Bersatu wants to abolish Chinese schools. Tak reti kira ke brader? And the number of Malays in Chinese schools is increasing. That is why Bersatu is also losing Malay votes. A lot of Malay voters  send their children to Chinese schools.

The number of Malays in international schools is also increasing. International schools teach in English. So does Bersatu  want to abolish these English language schools too? Or is it only Chinese schools that you dont like? Racist betul.

Why not Bersatu come up with solid plans to revive the sekolah kebangsaan system? Malaysia is dropping like a stone in so many 'international indexes' including education. What is your plan to revitalise the sekolah kebangsaan system.

Now even the MRSM colleges are suffering food poisoning. Kononnya toilet kotor, toilet rosak etc. Recently we heard about that one Chinese school toilet which is comparable to a 5-star hotel.

Why not Bersatu come up with ideas to create 6-star toilets in the sekolah kebangsaan? It is very easy brader. Teach BOTH the cikgu and the students to flush the toilets after they use it. If they can wash their hands that will be a bonus. (How else do you think e coli, bacteria semua masuk dalam makanan?) 

Why not Bersatu stand up and say 'We will abolish all gomen granted monopolies'. Anthony Loke said the Puspakom monopoly will not be renewed. Meaning other entrants will be allowed into vehicle inspection.  That is why they are getting more votes from Malays, Chinese, Indians. Who likes Puspakom's monopoly?

So why dont Bersatu stand up and say 'We will abolish the Bernas' rice import monopoly'. Hello Bersatu, do you honestly think the Malay voters, the Chinese voters, the Indian voters, the Dayak voters and the Kadazan voters all like the Bernas rice monopoly? You must still be stuck in the time zone from before black and white TV. The Twilight Zone. Wake up lah Bersatu.

So why dont Bersatu stand up and say 'We will abolish the APs and insanely high import duties, levies and taxes for motor vehicles. Hello Bersatu, do you honestly think the Malay voters, the Chinese voters, the Indian voters, the Dayak voters and the Kadazan voters all like the APs and the sky high car prices? You must still be stuck in the time zone from before black and white TV. The Twilight Zone. Wake up lah Bersatu.

So why dont Bersatu stand up and say 'We will abolish the Sedition Act and the MCMC Act." Hello Bersatu, do you honestly think the Malay voters, the Chinese voters, the Indian voters, the Dayak voters and the Kadazan voters all like the Sedition Act and the MCMC Act? You must still be stuck in the time zone from before black and white TV. The Twilight Zone. Wake up lah Bersatu.

So there really is nothing for the Malay voters, Chinese voters, Indian voters etc to differentiate Bersatu from PH or UMNO or even Pas. Semua sama juga. 

In 2018 "we" were all fighting Najib. Najib was insanely corrupt. Najib is now in jail. He is history. We succeeded in getting rid of Najib.

But now we must run the country. We have to chart the new direction for the 21st century. This is already 2024 but Bersatu, PKR, UMNO, Pas are still stuck in the 1970s. That was still zaman black and white TV.

"RTM began broadcasting in colour since 28 December 1978 in Peninsular Malaysia and 31 August 1980 in East Malaysia".

So I am not joking when I say that the dasar-dasar kerajaan that are still in place today were first formulated since the 1970s when Malaysia had only black and white TV. And PKR, Bersatu, UMNO, Pas, Amanah all basically agree and still follow these failed policies from the 1970s.

Bersatu really has to offer new thinking to the voters especially the Malay voters. Orang Melayu pun sudah fed up dengan dasar-dasar berkarat dan goblok zaman dinosaur.

No wild horse ideas. 
Dasar kuda liar semua tak boleh. 
We need real, practical and workable ideas for all Malaysians.

 

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