30.3.2010.
Whew ! so the last MCA troubles are at least temporarily over - until someone stirs up something else.
Unlike UMNO, but not necessarily implying that UMNO is in any way better, an MCA leader's sexual diversions don't necessarily mean that his political career is over.
I used to think that the basic cultural clash in MCA is between the Chinese-educated and the English-educated. At least that was one theory put forward by some academics years ago. But as is wont among academics, that is simplistic. The real world is anything but.
UMNO nation-wide meetings are around the corner. With the recently approved changes in the party's constitution, it'll be interesting to see the real developments at the grass-roots, meaning the branches' meetings.
My feeling is the modus operandi of UMNO is still the same, and if that is true, I haven't too much hope for any real turn-around by the party in as far as the Malay voters are concerned. UMNO is still being talked off by the Malay-in-the-street as obnoxious and crony-driven. The voice of the branches must be heard if the party is to regain any semblence of the trust it once had of the general Malay populace. For the branches to be heard, the resolutions tabled by them have to be picked up and seriously considered, and not let such resolutions be tabled and then forgotten as was the previous practice.
For one thing, I would like to see genuine leadership gets recognized right at the branch level, and once divisional leadership endorsed by the delegates is lined-up, party Supreme Leaders not leave any out of important appointments in the party's state and national machinery, and not repeat Dollah's fatal error of discarding 70 Divisional heads out of the 2008 GE line up.
To use golf terminology, don't duff the shot, and don't take any free drop. Also, to quote Maulud, don't hit "luar tabi'i" ( unnatural hit ). When I asked him to explain, he said "hitting at the back" or in Malay "hentam belakang". Ha, ha.
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1 comment:
Dear Zam,
Let's see. To bring back UMNO, it'll be from 2 fronts 1)the PM himself.
He covered new grounds n bridged the gaps,(released ISA detainees, visited China,walked about,1M'sia, 1M'sia Clinics,the NKRAs, connected with netizens, the NEM ) - all to gain acceptance and credibility lost.He is further aided by YB Zul who absolved him from the Altantuya spectre.
2)the grassroots. The GE12 sunk when UMNO members became PR sympathisers which must now return into the UMNO fold.He can reward the good leaders n discard those with baggage to appease the grassroots.
Hopefully it can find credance all round. A simplistic way of looking at it, really.
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