DAP Malays need to work harder

 This is the full list of DAP's new CEC members:

National chairman: Lim Guan Eng

Deputy national chairman: Gobind Singh Deo

Vice-national chairman: Nga Kor Ming; Chow Kon Yeow; Chong Chieng Jen, M. Kula Segaran, Teresa Kok

Secretary-general: Anthony Loke Siew Fook

Deputy secretary-general: Liew Chin Tong; V. Sivakumar (co-opted); Tengku Zulpuri (co-opted)

National treasurer: Fong Kui Lun

Assistant national treasurer: Ng Sze Han

National organising secretary: Sim Chee Keong

Assistant national organising secretary: Ng Suee Lim; Khoo Poay Tiong

National publicity secretary: Teo Nie Ching

Assistant national publicity secretary: Yeoh Tseow Suan; V. Ganabatirau (co-opted)

International secretary: Jannie Lasimbang

Assistant international secretary: Kasthuri Patto

Political education director: Wong Kah Woh

Assistant political education director: Wong Shu Qi

Committee members: Tan Kok Wai; Lim Lip Eng; Lim Hui Ying; Alice Lau Kiong Yieng, Chan Foong Hin, Ronnie Liu, Tan Hong Pin, Young Syefura Othman, Teo Kok Seong, Su Keong Siong, Wu Him Ven, and Syahredzan Johan (co-opted)

The only Malay DAP leader who was elected was new Dapsy number two Young Syefura Othman.

The other Malays in the list were appointed to their posts. Probably to balance the line-up a bit so that it doesn't look like the party is excluding the Malays too much.

My favourite DAP personality Bandar Utama assemblywoman Jamaliah Jamaluddin didn't make the cut and was not appointed.

She had contested for Dapsy's number one post but lost.

I'm not sure why the DAP delegates didn't choose her because she's smart, hardworking and beautiful.

I suspect that it got something to do with her looks,

She looks too Chinese despite being officially a Malay.

Well, she's a Sino Malay, okay.

Unlike Young Syefura, she doesn't wear a tudung, behave like an artiste and live a Malay celebrity lifestyle.

So, I think the DAP delegates found Jamaliah to be lacking in term of attracting more Malays to the party.

After all, her Bandar Utama constituency is a Chinese-majority area.

No added value, I guess.

Okay, I know some of you DAP supporters would jump and say I'm being a racist for saying all that because your party does everything based on meritocracy.

Fine, but I can't help to think that way when I looked at the CEC list.

Seriously, only one Malay elected? And she looks just like a prop to make the party more appealing to young Malays.

Even the Indians, who made up just about seven per cent of the population were better represented in the list. 

They even appointed that V. Ganabatirau, who accused "muslim groups" of attacking the Hindu temple where fireman Adib was fatally beaten, into the CEC.

Ya, ya, ya....I know, I know, this is all about meritocracy.

Fine.

Well, DAP Malays, work harder, okay.

Sigh.

By the way, Cik Jamaliah, I think you should just remain elegant the way you are. No need to copy Young Syefura and her getik ways. 

Old sickness of Umno cybertroopers

 I don't really like Raja Petra and disagree a lot with what he used to say.

However, I have to admit that I agree with most of what he said in this video;

One of the main reasons for Umno/BN's defeat in 2018 was because of the poor quality of its cybertroopers and their highly paid bosses.

I actually wrote about it several times in the run up to GE14.

This is one of those posts;

Between showing support and winning support

I wrote that on Nov 1, 2016, which was almost one and a half years before GE14.

Umno/BN people never fix that problem until the whole thing came crashing down on them in 2018.

And despite the humiliation that came with the defeat that year, they continued being stupid when it comes to the media war.

I wrote about it in this post on May 18, 2018,

Story of stupid BN comms

Things, however, began to improve later on, with Najib's team especially being quite successful with their Bossku branding.

Bear in mind that the new Bossku team is not the same as those who screwed up prior to 2018.

No more million dollar foreign adviser or media baron, I heard.

However, unfortunately for them, now that the people are warming up again to Umno/BN, I can sense the old sickness coming back.

I heard some of the previous so-called media experts are coming back....to make money again, I guess.

They don't seemed to realise that people are returning to support Umno/BN again not because it is really getting better but more because of Pakatan making a mess of things.

And some of these BN/Umno cybertroopers are starting to make the same old mistakes again.

They tried to shut up people and argue their way like morons.

Just look at the way some of them handled the recent bullshit Johor menteri besar appointment.

Cybertroopers, don't la write stupid insulting comments like this;

Anonymous18 March 2022 at 16:49

Let it rest lah...If Hasni can accept and he himself agree to it why should people like u make noise. They need a younger man as MB when TMJ becomes the acting Regent when his Father becomes the King. Faham?

It only pisses off more people, okay. 

It may give you some kind of weird pleasure telling people off but it would not help your cause as people will think you represent an arrogant and ignorant Umno.

Onn, you better train your people better. Don't make the same mistakes that you did with the handling of Malaysian Digest.

People don't like an arrogant and ignorant Umno, just like how they did throughout the run up to the 2018 general election.

BN would still win GE15 despite the Johor nonsense

Someone asked me this morning whether BN could still win GE15 after the bullshit that happened in Johor last weekend.

My answer was, of course BN will win.

Yup, that's despite my vow not to vote for it because I was pissed off over the nonsense in Johor.

Mine is just one vote, okay. It doesn't really change anything. By the way I'm not giving my vote to anyone else, so BN people should not worry about it too much.

I'm just being a neutral observer now.

Okay, things maybe a bit more complicated in Johor for BN, but I don't think that nonsense over the MB appointment would affect it too much elsewhere.

As expected, Umno is pushing for an early GE15 at its ongoing general assembly and I think it will get its wish.

Ismail Sabri could not go against that. Otherwise he will be transformed from being a party vice-president into a party traitor.

So, GE15 will be held before the Umno election scheduled before end of this year. My bet is that it would be within two or three months from now, after Hari Raya.

I believe that Agong will agree with that, especially after what happened in Johor.

Why I think BN will win?

Simple. Because all the anti-BN people are now in a mess. 

They wouldn't have the time to focus on preparations for GE15.

It's quite evident that each one of them are now merely trying to save themselves.

Their leaders were doing everything they could to rally their own vote banks as they know the old rhetorics against BN didn't really work with most people anymore.

Guan Eng today issued yet another statement to project the image of DAP or to be more exact himself, as  the defender of the non-Malays by questioning the equity shareholding of Bumiputera.

And the other day, a bunch of Indian DAP MPs tried to create a scene in Dewan Rakyat over the Mitra issue so they could be seen as the heroes of their community. 

All very stupid, actually.

What they are doing just showed that they have actually gave up on winning GE15 and only want to keep their parliamentary seats.

As for the anti-BN Malay gang, they are finding it almost impossible to counter Umno as seen in Johor and Melaka.

They don't really have anything solid to offer the Malays.

True, there are still Malays who hate Umno so much that they would vote against it no matter what, but they are now a rather small minority.

Most Malays are fed up with what happened after GE14 and now they just want a strong and stable government again.

Pakatan actually really screwed up when it came to winning the hearts and minds of the Malays when they were in power after GE14.

Their leaders and supporters insulted the Malays to no end at that time by their words and conducts.

Personally, I will always remember what they said and did when fireman Adib died. Those were the most hurtful for me.

Of course, when the Malays started to once again supporting Umno, they switched to insulting them even more by accusing the Malays of condoning corruption and abuses of power.

They forgot that the results of GE14 was because many Malays, including even Umno members gave them their votes because they believe in what Pakatan leaders said about Umno.

After all those insults, there's no way the majority of Malays will not support Umno and its BN allies again.

That was what happened in Johor, Melaka and all those earlier by-elections.

Yup, they have no other choice but to vote for Umno and its BN allies now, even after the nonsense in Johor that day.

They would just stomach that one for now and deal with it later.

Seriously, I'm writing this not because I'm campaigning for Umno and BN. 

I'm writing this, because it is the reality on the ground.

By the way, I think BN can still win about 14 of the 26 parliament seats in Johor. If not for the nonsense that day, it could probably win up to 19 or 20.

Pujuk Melayu

Malays are generally soft hearted people.

They tend to easily forgive and forget. 

Maybe that's why a friend, who is a Johor Umno division chief sent this picture last night

Yup, it's the picture of the new Johor MB, his uncle and Hasni.

They were at a dinner gathering held in conjunction with the ongoing Umno general assembly.

My friend didn't say anything as I think he knew I was still pissed off over what happened last weekend.

But I understand his message - "Hey, cool down. Hasni is okay with those two. Let's get back to business as usual."

Yeah, sure. What do you expect Hasni to do. Run away as the uncle and nephew approached the table for the photo op? Punch their faces?

Of course not. Hasni is too much a gentleman to do such nonsense. He instead greeted them nicely and smiled with them for the cameras.

What my friend doesn't seemed to understand was that I was not actually pissed off because Hasni was blocked from becoming MB.

I hardly know the guy, having only met and talked with him once, just before the Tanjong Piai by-election in 2019. I wrote about it in this post;

Tanjung Piai, between Umno and MCA

excerpts;

A very high ranking Johor Umno leader asked me the other day whom should BN field in the upcoming Tanjung Piai by-election.

I actually felt honoured that he asked for my opinion. After all, I'm just a nobody while he is a very important Johor Umno decision maker.

Yup, that "very high ranking Johor Umno leader" was Hasni. I didn't put his name in that post because I don't want to be seen as his paid macai or something.

I never tried to even approach him after that encounter as I have never been really comfortable with doing such things.

As for my anger over these past few days, I was actually pissed off because they think its okay and within their rights to throw the rakyat's democratic rights into the dustbin.

If Onn Hafiz had became the MB in a proper way, I would have cheered him on, actually. 

He would probably be a good MB who would protect the people's interests. 

But now he can't be one.

I think even my friend knows that.

It's such a pity as I actually like the guy after meeting him several times after BN's defeat in 2018.

I wrote about him in this post on March 7, 2020;

Looks good in Johor

excerpts;

4. Onn Hafiz Ghazi
I first heard about this young man during the GE13 campaign. Smart, hard working, polite, and sincere were qualities I heard about him at that time. He was just a young junior Umno guy then and it was said that he didn't mind being assigned to minor things despite him being the great grandson of Umno founder Datuk Onn Jaafar. I however only met him in person in the aftermath of GE14. My assessment of him after several encounters was that he looked the way he was described to me back then. I have high hopes for this guy to be part of the future of a good Umno.

Okay, I may have been very harsh on the guy in my past few postings, but what else could I do.

The thought of Johor having another lame duck MB really irked me.

I really can't see how the guy could act in the interest of the common Johorean folks with the way he was appointed to the post.

What have the common Johorean folks benefited from all the jingoism being peddled since 2013?

Calling themselves Bangsa Johor made their lives better?

JDT won their matches improved their quality of life?

What did they gain from the selling off of the coastal land to Chinese mainlanders which stretched all the way from Stulang to near the Second Link? They can't even afford to buy a house there, okay.

Seriously, I can't see any real positive development in Johor for the rakyat marhaen over the past nine years except for the leftover of projects initiated before 2013.

If Onn Hafiz wants to prove people like me wrong, he must stand up, be courageous and change all that.

And Johor Umno better back him up if he does that.

Otherwise, you all would also be just a lame duck party.

Knowing my place in the world

A friend yesterday sent a message telling me to know my place in the world because of my not so nice opinion about what happened in Johor over these past few days.

He insisted that the appointment of the new Johor MB was good.

Well, I can actually argue on that but decided not to do so because he is a dear friend.

I hate quarrelling with a friend.

Also, I know who he is working for and therefore it would be a waste of my time and energy to try make him understand my point of view.

By the way, I actually know exactly my place in the world. 

I am not rich and have no important position.

Basically, I'm just a nobody....with not much to lose. 

Really, that's what I am.

Sorry to disappoint especially the loyal pro-Pakatan readers of this blog. I'm really not paid by Umno to write my nonsense.

As I wrote before, this blog is just a journal of my thoughts. It just so happened that I know a bit of politics, and that's what turned this blog into a political one.

Honestly, I don't even really care whether people read this blog. 

I have no desire to be either rich or famous and that's why I don't even have any active Facebook or Twitter account.

I'm also actually quite aware that I can't really write. My English is bad and Bahasa even worse.

Why would anyone want to pay me for by bad writings, right?

Ok, ok, I know, even the newly minted Johor MB had admitted in court that he once handled hundreds of thousands of ringgit to run a party propaganda portal. But really guys, I'm not like that at all.

I'm not even an Umno member, okay.

As for my writings about Johor politics, if you all go through the archive of this blog, you would probably realise that I actually criticised the BN state administration under Khaled Nordin more than I did against the two Pakatan MBs after him.

Honestly, Khaled was not worse as an MB if compared to the Pakatan guys but I criticised him more because I hold him at a higher level of expectation as he represented Umno.

I actually believe that Khaled would have been a much better MB if not for the interferences that he had to deal with throughout his unfortunate one term in Kota Iskandar.

As for the new MB, he will definitely have it worse. I'm quite sure of this.

At least Khaled was an Umno division chief and later on the party's state chief when he assumed the post, 

He even hold a federal ministerial post before that and therefore have quite some experience in managing an administration.

The current MB is none of that.

But then again I guess all he needs to do is just sit there in the office and do as he's told.

I heard the currently all powerful state secretary can handle everything for him.

As for the political side of things, I did ask my senior Johor Umno friends whether Hasni would be forced to also give his state Umno chief post to the upstart and they said that would be unthinkable.

They insisted that the guy needs to at least be a division chief first before thinking about becoming the state party chief.

Well, I think his uncle in Semberong can fix that one. 

I know one or two division chiefs who are aligned with him that could be persuaded to give up their posts for that purpose in exchange of maybe a candidacy for a parliamentary seat in GE15.

I know, this is all sounding very sordid, but that's how it is in politics.

Can't really blame them, actually. This involves power, money....lots of money and other more than just nice perks.

Sigh.

The price we rakyat have to pay for democracy....and in Johor, it's not even real democracy anymore. 

Umno, grow a real backbone, please

Umno is having its AGM again today and all are expecting its delegates to push for GE15.

Maybe they were right because the party just led BN to a stunning victory in the Johor election.

However, after what happened yesterday, I think Umno delegates need to think carefully before they do that.

What could Umno offer the people now?

Could it protect the democratic rights of the people?

If Umno can't stand for its own right like what happened in Johor, what can the people expect from it when it comes to defending their rights?

Malaysians are not slaves, okay. We have our own mind and can think for ourselves.

The Umno delegates should better remember that or they will suffer another humiliation like in 2018.

Unless they could stand up at their AGM and voice their objection against the erosion of democratic principles such as what happened in Johor, then they better not talk about having a general election for now.

For one thing, I'm quite confident Umno and its BN allies in Johor will not be doing so great like they did in the state election if GE15 is held now.

They may likely lose a lot of those marginal parliamentary seats in the state.

If you don't believe me, go and ask Johor Umno deputy chief Jazlan whether he is eager to again contest  the Pulai seat, which he lost in 2018.

The guy is normally quite honest about such things and I expect him to give you an honest answer.

Oh, and I hope Khaled Nordin will contest Pasir Gudang again if GE15 is to be held soon. Let's see if he can get the seat back. Honestly, I don't think he could.

Then there are Ledang, Muar, Batu Pahat, Segamat, Johor Baru etc.

Let's not even talk about the DAP's strongholds like Bakri, Kulai, Kluang, etc.

Bear in mind that despite winning a two-thirds majority in the state election, Umno and its BN allies only received 43 per cent of the popular votes.

And the voters turnout was just less than 60 per cent.

What if voters, especially the fence sitters who supported BN in the state election also decided they can't be bothered with the whole nonsense after what happened yesterday.

They had expected a good leader like Hasni as their MB to protect their rights and instead they got a shameless khadam.

If GE15 is to be held now, Umno people can go around proudly campaigning in their uniforms and glamour but the people will likely just sneer behind their back just like what happened in 2018.

They may dislike Pakatan and the others, but they wouldn't be too enthusiastic to support a party which doesn't have a backbone and failed to keep its promises.

Syok sendiri je lah korang. Umno jaga Melayu, tapi Melayu elite je.

Yup, many people would probably say that, again.

So sorry, Johor

So, it has come to this,

That, despite this,

38 Johor BN reps submit SDs to palace supporting Hasni 

I have checked the story and it's true.

Johor BN indeed tried but was unsuccessful to stop the whole thing from happening.

It's too weak to defend the people's democratic rights. Even with that two-thirds majority.

Well, I will keep my words; I will not vote for BN in GE15 and I will pray for the new Johor MB's uncle Hishammuddin Hussein to lose in Semberong in that coming election.

That's the least that I could do.

As for this blog, I will once again turn it into a neutral platform.

For Johoreans, these are excerpts of an article published in Berita Harian in 2019,

Sultan Azlan Shah menerusi tulisannya The Role of Constitutional Rulers in Malaysia menyatakan:

“biarpun benar bahawa pelantikan seseorang Menteri Besar adalah prerogatif Sultan, baginda tidak bebas untuk melantik sesiapa yang disukai. Apabila parti yang memenangi majoriti kerusi memutuskan untuk mencalonkan seorang daripada ahlinya, Sultan terbabit tidak mempunyai pilihan kecuali melantiknya.”

Ini jelas menunjukkan kegagalan mematuhi konvensyen ini akan menyebabkan Sultan terbabit dalam politik partisan. Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) mungkin boleh meluluskan undi tidak percaya terhadap Menteri Besar yang baru dilantik. Jika perkara itu berlaku, pasti boleh memalukan baginda dan seterusnya membawa kepada krisis Perlembagaan.

Pertimbangan ikut budi bicara

Bagaimanapun, sesetengah situasi mengizinkan baginda membuat pertimbangan mengikut budi bicara tersendiri. Antaranya jika kedudukan DUN ‘tergantung’ dan tiada mana-mana pihak memiliki majoriti, selain pihak majoriti berbelah bahagi dalam soal pemilihan ketua. Hal sama berlaku jika terdapat gabungan dan ia berbelah bahagi dalam pemilihan ketua.

Ketika berlaku pembubaran juga, Menteri Besar meninggal dunia atau meletak jawatan, maka Sultan mempunyai kuasa untuk memilih Menteri Besar sementara.

Artikel 4(2) dan 7(2) (a) mengenai pelantikan Menteri Besar oleh Sultan, mestilah dibaca dengan mengambil kira kandungan Perlembagaan yang mengandungi ciri-ciri demokrasi berikut (a) Menteri Besar bukan wizir/wazir peribadi kepada Sultan, tetapi dipilih DUN; (b) Menteri Besar dan EXCO perlu menjawab kepada DUN, bukan kepada Sultan: Artikel 4(5); (c) terdapat DUN yang dipilih: Artikel 15; (d) Menteri Besar boleh dipecat oleh DUN melalui undi tidak percaya: Artikel 4(6); dan (e) Sultan adalah Raja Berperlembagaan yang mesti bertindak atas nasihat yang dikawal situasi tertentu apabila budi bicara diperlukan.

Tiada kuasa bubarkan DUN

Timbul juga persoalan adakah Sultan memiliki kuasa untuk membubarkan DUN? Jawapannya tidak.

Perkara 23 menyebut baginda mempunyai kuasa untuk memulakan dan menangguhkan DUN, tetapi atas nasihat. Begitu juga dengan Perkara 23(2) yang menyebut baginda mempunyai kuasa untuk membubarkan pada peringkat pertengahan, walaupun DUN belum berakhir, tetapi juga atas nasihat dan ini tertakluk kepada Perkara 7(1).