'Stop all this bickering!'

'Stop all this bickering!'
Mar 14, 08 10:28am

What makes the so-called BR so different from BN now? Before we can even savour the victory of unseating the BN, we see you guys all acting like partisan mavericks.



On PKR threatens to pull out of Perak state gov't

Latestarter: For God’s sake, stop all this bickering! What makes the so called Barisan Rakyat so different from the Barisan Nasional now? DSAI and LKS, please get your act together, and quickly rein in your men to discipline them. Stop shooting yourselves in the foot. Before we can even savour the victory of unseating the BN, we see you guys all acting like partisan mavericks. What happened to your promises to work in consensus, cooperation and all that bullshit? Why the need for all this partisan outbursts?

Is the Barisan Rakyat a reality or not? Or is it just a dream? If this is going to carry on, all the goodwill gained from our Malay, Chinese and Indian friends is just going to be lost. If this bickering is going to go on, we might as well just surrender Perak to the BN. Grow up you nitwits. The voters have placed their trust in you. So please get off your backsides, stop all the in-fighting, and get on with the business of governing. Don’t blame the voters if they lose faith in you. Your antics are just providing more ammo to the BN who will not hesitate to exploit the racial issue to bring you down.

CH Siew: I am feeling really disgusted with the action taken by all three parties who not only can't get their act together but have started the grab for power. This is especially so for the state of Perak. Evidently this bunch of people forgot that there is still a big wolf at their door waiting for its opportunity.

Come on! Umno, MCA, Gerakan and MIC can survive together for 50 years (well, Gerakan joined in later in 1969 or so), and the opposition can't even stay together for four days?

Further more, what is with this brawl over the seat allocation? Do you need compensation if you don't get the MB seat? Honestly I find that all these struggles between parties shows the lack of professionalism, especially on DAP’s part. Have they forgotten their manifestos already? How would the people dare to trust them any more in the future?

The behaviour of these people have not grown beyond their ‘opposition’ days. Sometimes, there is always a reason why they have been where they were all these while. The people may already be feeling the slap on their face for choosing such monkeys for the job. BN may just call for a snap election within a month or so if you continue to act on in such manner.

Disgusted Indian: Don’t let the people down. If you do you will be brought down not in five years time but within five months. The people will be very disappointed if you guys play this kind of dirty politics. Let there be proper representation from all the races and get down to work.

The rakyat are not stupid. This is the first time the people have voted not as Chinese, Indian or Malay but as Malaysians supporting each other. Let’s us just fight and eradicate all forms of corruption and all things will fall into their places.

HL Ooi: Why don’t the parties in the BR alliance just stick to the original exco arrangement of DAP-PAS- PKR 6-2-2 as originally agreed by everyone? I believe the people who voted in Barisan Rakyat were not buying tickets to a cliffhanger movie. We want a BR government that can function harmoniously together without racial, religious or inter-party friction and bring improvement to the people as promised in the election manifestos of the component parties.

The people of different races and religions got together and voted harmoniously to put these people in place, trusting in their ability to show better governance, so they jolly well better reflect harmony and honour the trust that has been bestowed upon them.

Del Capo: DAP and PRK, be very, very aware that BN & Umno are in the background trying to stir trouble to break up the DAP-PKR-PAS pact and to make you look bad. Don’t fall into their trap. Hang in there and work with what you have. You have just started to gain ground. Don’t shoot yourselves just yet.


On Lim apologises, DAP reps to attend ceremony

Michael Sun: If Kit Siang can recall, that the national papers featured Fong Po Kuan on their front pages when she said she did not want to stand for elections and when she stood again, the news was buried in the tons of BN propaganda. So will your ‘apology’ and the chances are that the His Royal Highnesses would not even know that you have apologised.

Being a long time opposition leader, you should use your brain rather than your heart. Now the BN-controlled media will just send you to the cleaners. You are still behaving like an oppositionist rather than a statesman. In Perak, Selangor and Penang, you are NOT the opposition. Please behave like a statesman. Sometimes we need to move one step backwards to go two steps forward.

I hope Kit Siang learn from this. You asked the voters to ‘Just Change It’, maybe it is appropriate for you to change your 1970s style of politicking which does not jell well with the X and Y generations. May God continue to bless and protect you and give you wisdom. "

Allan Tham: Mr Lim Kiat Siang has done the right thing. DAP should be more patient and place trust on PAS as the political landscape is very much different compared to that in 1999.All opposition parties should work on a common ground to establish a capable opposition force in time to come.

Jo-han: Good on you YB, we were all worried there for awhile. Let's not give anymore fodder for the rogue mainstream papers.Your reversal and apology shows great leadership and humility, qualities we would never expect from any of the top BN leaders (until maybe a disastrous event like say losing 80 seats in a national election).

Thank you for looking at the bigger picture. It really does not matter which party holds the Perak’s MB post. What's important is you work together as a team. Let's not squabble over details and technicalities when there is so much more to do, and so much to look forward to.

Frankie Ch'ng: I think it is so unbecoming of LKS for showing much disrespect to the Sultan of Perak. I am so disappointed, even though LKS did apologise. I think DAP should be free from LKS and it is time LKS loosen his grip on DAP. Politics today has changed, the voters today are not stupid. Should LKS keep on harping on this matter, we the voters will bring the Rocket down, this I promise you.

Hami: Mr Lim Kit Siang, you and DAP surely blundered for your disrespect and greed. This showed how faithful you are and that the DAP in the BA coalition is opportunistic. Your party’s attitude not to work with PAS is just arrogance. It is time for you and DAP to review this course, before there is any change in attitude among those who supported you.


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