Sabah Crossover Threat

I sincerely do hope that people understand what is the objective here. We can argue about how we want MPs to behave, we want this, we want that, MPs must have a sense of loyalty, electorate accountability, honour and all that.

Ladies and gents, the question is can we actually afford to let this opportunity go? to repeal the ISA in the short term? to rid ourselves of draconian laws? are we really that confident that we will win more than 80 seats in the coming elections?

I am all with good governance. As you all can witness, the Pakatan Rakyat govenments are all showing the entire nation on how to spend wisely, cutting corners, allowing both sides of the divide to participate in local governance, transparency and accountability without regards to political creed. These processes should continue and slowly but surely even the BN will eventually accept these as rudimentary and normal practices in public governance.

This is a sure and steady but slow step. Now let us look at the reality. Do you all not think that BN will whip out their entire arsenal now they have tasted the bitter taste of defeat? do you accept the fact that this time around no holds will be barred? The fact remains that this is one SOB that will not go down fighting, in the next General Elections.

With that in mind, and with the BN is utter disarray, why don't we capitalise? if at all we are to be smart, we have to move now! Remember, the BN are not a principled lot. They will find ways and we may not have a chance again in the future.

As for the ethics of ship jumping, we must also bear in mind that just because they are in BN they do not subscribe to the issues raised by Pakatan. It would seem that they have also promised reductions in illegal immigrants, promised to enrich the locals and fight for Sabah's rights to a greater slice of the Petroleum royalties. With these in mind, the people then voted them in.

Khairy Jamaluddin and Shabeery Cheek are in error. The people do not vote for the symbol per se. They also vote for the candidate. The candidate was chosen for what he has promised, alongside with his primary party's manifesto. As in all election promises, the general party manifesto centralises and focuses on Malaysia in general, and the candidate shall wrap up his campaign with championing for local issues.

As a conclusion, I submit that as long as the struggle is defined, and that the MP found that his objectives could not be met with the primary party, there is no problem for him to transfer his allegiences to a party that accommodates his local duties to his constituency - which is exactly what should happen.

Any hopping without the local aspirations in mind (i.e. personal, financial or pecuniary considerations) have no relevance to the above.

Regards,

Amir Hamzah bin Amhahttp://puterabatu.blogspot.com/