State of the Nation : UMNO's Poisoned Chalice

PERCEPTION is a very dangerous tool especially when it is used to measure support using social media as the benchmark.

TAKE for instance in the last general election,  the Malay politician with arguably the best social media presence in Malaysia lost to an Indian, Parti Keadilan rookie,  in a seat where 70 per cent of the voters were Malay Muslims.

MEET Khairy Jamaluddin,  who failed to win the Malay votes despite the entire nation experiencing a Malay Tsunami. READ : Tok Mat : 70 per cent of Sungai Buloh voters are Malays.

IT is that same poisoned chalice now hanging around UMNO's neck, the still prevailing believe that social media presence is a very good indicator of people's perception.

THAT believe, has been time and time again proven to be wrong. If it was correct, then UMNO would have won the last general election hands down on the account that Najib Razak was jailed.

BUT UMNO got its ass whooped in the last general election, because UMNO leaders failed miserably to read the tea leafs between the difference of  guilty and wronged.

I still believe that Najib Razak was wronged, but that doesn't mean I believe he is innocent  either.

WRONGED, because no man, not even the Prime Minister of Malaysia, could have inflicted the damage done in 1MDB, without inside help from Bank Negara and other enforcement bodies.

WRONGED ,  because you either get everyone involved in the scandal behind bars or you move on with life.

UMNO's Akmal Saleh, who now says he will go against the wishes of the party READ : and still attend a gathering in support of Najib this coming Monday has placed UMNO in a tight spot.

A tight spot, because Akmal Saleh has pulled the moral highground carpet which UMNO had made its case to the Malaysian public with regards to the addendum attached to Najjb Razak's pardon.

IN turn,  Akmal Saleh has pushed UMNO into the dark and narrow road,  potentially being stuck on the silent majority's head that UMNO has become what Sarawak Report said years ago about Khairy Jamaluddin that READ: moral failure can never be a mistake, but a sign that one has lost the moral compass

One More Try, A Second Life With All Eyes On Anthony Loke.

IT'S  been a while .. a while too long and a while too fat since Malaysia has seen Anthony Loke in MASQUERADE. 

YUP,  the Anthony Loke of DAP,  READ : the one that would take secret train rides, obviously filmed so that the entire nation would know that a Minister is on the prowl.

WHEN the camera lighs were shut, ANTHONY Loke  has gone from READ : wanting Malaysia to build its own trains to READ : to paying in excess of RM10 billion to rent train sets from China, all in a single breath .

THE minister blows hot and cold, as his spoken words and his actions are definitely poles apart. 

WATCH HERE : how Anthony Loke, who had previously as an opposition backbencher attempt to mislead parliament with misleading information on InaiKiara, takes Inai Kiara out from the equation on technicalities and not due to poor performance

LOOKING back READ : The Day DAP's Mr Brighside Got His Pants pulled down for spewing a perfectly fine narrative, that turned out to be one filled with half truths.

TODAY Inai Kiara is death row ward, thanks to Anthony  Loke's second reincarnation as Transport Minister.

AREN'T we supposed to help the good ones, that have strayed...the ones with a decent track record, the one which has the full spectrum expertise of a dredger, that only China has as there is no other like for like replacement in South East Asia.

APPARENTLY,  Yes but not so in Anthony Loke's Ministry of Transport.

IN Anthony Loke's  Ministry of Transport, it smells like the Nation State's interest must take a back seat to the Minister's pride.

THE media has factually reported a rescue mission in on the way, not for Inai Kiara but instead for Emrail Sdn Bhd. READ : The secret talks with Anthony Loke's Ministry of Transport, has in the offing the return of failed contractor, Emrail with a plush RM3 billion award for a job the company didn't complete in the first place.

SINISTER or a death wish to throw good money for a bad hat, is indeed debatable...but what is not on the table for debate is the FACT, the fish rots from the head onwards!!.