OCT 31 In a seductiveness of discourse, we suspicion I'd work upon a contrary of an essay we review not long ago upon either a single would have a great Umno politician.
Would we have a great Pakatan politician?
1. we am a part of of PKR. DAP has come to an critical ideological connection with PAS upon a alternative side of a road. In front of all 3 of us is a all-important Hudud emanate which threatens to rip a friendly little bloc apart. What do we do?
a) Stick to a particular principles as well as disperse a great ol' bloc we had going.
b) Agree to shift particular celebration constitutions to allow/disallow Hudud implementation to have coherent ideological consensus.
c) "Agree to disagree" as well as say particular celebration constitutions upon this fractious emanate in a interests of energy in any case of a probable repercussions if in truth Pakatan did come in to power.
2. we am a part of of DAP. My celebration wants to form a shade cupboard so which we appear to be a convincing alternative to Barisan Nasional, as well as so a electorate will know just who we're choosing by casting votes for. On tip of that, there have been benefits to having a shade cabinet. We'll know just who's in assign of replying Ministers in Parliament, sitting in during comparison Ministerial briefings, access to a civil use upon a behind of being positively ready from a get go when we come in power. But unfortunately, we can't due to a miss of domestic consensus. What do we do?
a) Sit down during a discussion table, crush it out as well as eventually come up with a list to take to a electorate as well as Parliament.
b) Be honest to a Rakyat as well as say which we're incompetent to come up with a single due to miss of ideological accord as well as say which a shade cupboard is a most appropriate we can do
c) Pretend which a miss of a shade cupboard is not an emanate as well as which a shade cupboard is adequate. Allo! w a few great politicians we have to answer upon a innumerable of issues, except a particular portfolios held by a shade committee. Allow particular cupboard portfolios to usually be an emanate when we come in to power. Fractiousness afterwards not an issue. Power is key.
3. we am a part of of PAS. To concede us to constructively discuss a supervision bill & concede us to propose a own set of policies, we come up with a own really own shade budget. In a shade budget, what do we do?
a) Propose to break away from a low-wage/low-productivity leg irons by embracing policies which will concede us to get there.
b) Maintain which subsidies go upon a suppressed salary environment though say it for time-being due to tall inflation. Call for a some-more targeted implementation which will give a poor a bigger bang for their buck, instead of subsidies which additionally benefit a rich.
c) Call for a doubling of a funding bill to RM22 billion with no transparent exit strategy, enlarge handouts, with no transparent productivity gains as well as explain which a multiplier outcome from these policies will be 20% larger than a benefaction government's policies. Claim which some-more efficient & robust taxation pick up will enlarge income though vehemently conflict a GST for domestic mileage except a studies display it as a most appropriate option moving forward to enlarge potency of taxation collection. Leave no transparent timeline for implementation with total which have no basis in reality, though impugn supervision total for which reason. Then go ceramah.
4. we am a part of of a DAP. The Chief Minister of Penang's son has been slandered by bloggers online. What do we say my celebration contingency do?
a) Call for no family members of Pakatan Rakyat or Barisan Nasional be dragged in to passageway for liquid politics, as well as say which usually issues as well as policies will be discussed.
b) Call for no family members of Pakatan R! akyat or Barisan Nasional be dragged in to passageway for liquid politics, though with a single caveat; when issues of public seductiveness have been discussed.
c) Call for no family members of Pakatan Rakyat or Barisan Nasional be dragged in to passageway for liquid politics, though strike a Prime Minister's as well as alternative Ministers family members every event we get. Go upon a nation-wide ceramah slandering a Prime Minister's wife, accusing her of everything from murder to Hermes handbags. His son as well as daughter have been additionally satisfactory game- together with a young girl's marriage to a male she loves. But scream passageway for liquid governing body when tables have been turned.
5. we am a part of of PKR. A church in Selangor has not long ago been raided by a state's eremite authority, JAIS. My colleague from PAS who's a EXCO in assign of a state's eremite dialect claims which they were prostletysing to Muslims, which is against my country's Federal Constitution. What do we do?
a) Call for all buliding to relax as well as wait for for a report to come out. No stands. Ensure which a report comes out quickly as to understanding with this emanate as quickly as probable so everybody can pierce on.
b) Take a mount against break-in by JAIS as well as call for state management to be some-more firm with them as its underneath a state jurisdiction. Apologise as control of state to all church-goers during a event. Respect eremite freedom.
c) Maintain which nonetheless JAIS is underneath a state's authority, Umno infiltrated them as well as forced them to control said raid upon church. Take positively no shortcoming for it, though go upon to pass a buck. Whack UMNO for impinging eremite leisure in front of magnanimous church-goers, though in front of farming Muslims promise which Pakatan will protect a sanctity of a religion.
6. Its 2008. BN has suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat. They have lost 5 states, as well as their two-th! irds inf ancy for usually a second time. What do we do as Pakatan Rakyat?
a) Respect a choosing result as well as vow to work harder subsequent year.
b) Ensure which a EC works tough to transparent any irregularities from which choosing as well as apply oneself a choosing result.
c) Promise to takeover a sovereign supervision by luring thirty BN MPs to cross-over. Give an expect timeline; which of September 16. Promise a new emergence for everyone. Don't have which deadline, collectively letting-down celebration members as well as a little in a middle. Scream which BN didn't concede democratic crossovers to happen by 'bribing' own MPs to stay. When same unfolding repeated itself in Perak 6 months later, strike BN for being undemocratic.
7. we am a unelected leader of a sovereign opposition. we am in justice for allegedly sodomising my former personal aide. What do we do?
a) we hire a great lawyer, attest in justice as well as apply oneself a court's decision.
b) we call a court's autonomy as well as neutrality in to question, though still attest as well as go thru a court's processes.
c) we choose to give an unsworn matter to a court, not permitting any of a prosecutors to cross-examine me in any case of me being right. Instead, call for a PM as well as his wife to be cross-examined by a defence, except a sophistry I've just employed as well as will explain which a judiciary is compromised if they don't. If convicted, will conflict a judiciary for being biased.
8. we am a Chief Minister of Penang. There is an purported audio recording of me saying which if unfamiliar investors invest in a single of my associate Malaysian states, they have been expected to be kidnapped. What do we do?
a) we confess which it was me as well as which it was wrong of me to do so. we apologize to all parties involved.
b) we call which state's crime statistics in to question, as well as say concerted efforts contingency be ma! de to re voke crime there. we apologize for my comments.
c) we initial deny which it was me as well as explain which Umno bloggers have been perplexing to defame me. After a audio recording's in public domain, we say which we was saying it in my private capacity, in any case of it being in a function where I'm hosted as a Chief Minister. I'm afterwards told which a Sultan of which state isn't as well happy with my statements. we afterwards apologize to Tuanku unreservedly. we say which Johor's crime rate is really tall as well as do not apologize to alternative endangered parties. we go upon my beggar-thy-neighbour process during a responsibility of associate Malaysian states.
9. we am a Chief Minister of Selangor. A State Assemblyman has uttered out his perspective about an emanate related to a celebration to a media. What do we do?
a) Respect his right to have an perspective which competence differ from a celebration stand,
b) Question because he's we do it to a media, though apply oneself his right to a stand.
c) Institute a 'gag order' to all celebration members to bar them from talking about this specific issue. Allow rumours to boyant which said Assemblyman has been bought over by a statute coalition. Ensure which a usually perspective which comes out is a celebration line. No room for individualism here.
10. How do we have it as a statesman in Pakatan?
a) Intellectual as well as principled.
b) A loud populist.
c) Related to a single of a undemocratically self-appointed leaders of Pakatan. Some say God-Sent.
How did we do?
Mostly A's: I'm sorry, you'll never have it as a statesman in Pakatan.
Mostly B's: You're upon a way there, though still need a little sprucing up prior to we stick on Pakatan.
Mostly C's: Thank we for taking time out of your bustling schedule to review this YB. Which Pakatan celebration have been we from?
* Paul Chow reads The Malaysian Insider.
!* This is a personal perspective of a writer or publication, as well as does not necessarily paint a views of The Malaysian Insider.
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