Comments on: A Law To Prevent Defections

By: Party-hopping: Reading along, under, over, within, and between the (party?) lines « the Silo

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:42:58 +0000

[...] party-hopping started to unnerve the BN Federal government, Kit was quick to chime in with a “I told you so“. However, he did not provide any contemporary views on the matter… he merely reminded [...]

By: lakilompat

lakilompat — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:17:35 +0000

There is no law for this hopper, everyone is free to hop around.

By: limkamput

limkamput — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:53:48 +0000

LadyGodiva Says: Yesterday at 19: 50.31
“Anti-hopping law – constitutional or unconstitutional? What is clear is that you cannot keep the cake and eat it at the same time.”

You think you so smart. Keep half and eat half lah, that is your expertise.

By: lakilompat

lakilompat — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:52:00 +0000

U dun join a party to get restricted by “freedom of choice” u join party becos u think your little talent and wit can make the party stronger.

By: pjboy

pjboy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:20:15 +0000

Lakilompat: Maybe it is Oxford Tuition Center (UK = Ulu Klang) lah.

If any party members were sacked, don’t see why they can’t join the parties of their choice since they will have automatically become an independent. I think the basics here should be ‘freedom-of choice’.

By: lakilompat

lakilompat — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:33:20 +0000

Political instability is caused by cronies, a sleeping PM, and an end product of Oxford (Khairy).

The Frogs are just there bidding their time with their eye open bidding for the right time to jump.

They will join the rakyat to slap those cronies, Khairy, and to awake the sleeping beauty PM.

It’s funny to see the sleeping beauty PM rudely awaken got slapped in his face then suddenly lost 5 states, lost the power to appoint MB in Perlis and Terengganu, and thankfully still have a new wife to enjoy.

By: madmix

madmix — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:23:04 +0000

Now the FROG PRINCE is calling for the extermination of all frogs:
NST on line:
PUTRAJAYA: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) supports the proposal to ban party-hopping as the practice caused political instability.

By: wag-the-dog

wag-the-dog — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:45:59 +0000

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By: lkc57

lkc57 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:42:20 +0000

Change is inevitable. Malaysians have evolved to become more informed of their rights. March 8 saw Malaysians rose up. It was a pity that the wind of change had not swept to East Malaysia. Otherwise, history would have been rewritten.

What is so wrong if MPs switched camp, if it comes to their realisation that they were misled by their party. It is important that their conscience is right. They are not bribed to do so. Ok, if switching is immoral and irresponsible, then just make way for a re-election. See what the people want this time around. This, I feel, is more pressingly important instead of continue living under uncertainty.

By: lkc57

lkc57 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:09:01 +0000

Correction: … without a tinge of guilt.
Sorry

By: lkc57

lkc57 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:08:08 +0000

Suddenly it is suggested to have law to curb MPs to “jump ship” when BN is under threat! BN has been all along happily welcoming opposition to join them a tinge of guilt. All this only shows how irresponsible and unethical of our “leaders”.

There are two sides of a coin. The question is whether the elected MP pays allegiance to the people or his party. He has got to make a wise decision: to leave the party whose leadership has already totally lost direction (who bring more harm to the nation) to continue serving the people.

By: madmix

madmix — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:56:39 +0000

Cases of BN reps hopping into the opposition is extremely rare. Almost all the katak cases were non-BN joining the BN gravy train. So why are they so agitated about the prospects of their own joining the other side? A taste of their own medicine.

By: lakilompat

lakilompat — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:26:47 +0000

Who would mind to sacrifice his or her reputation by turning into a frog for sake of democracy and a new dawn for Malaysian? The problem is it might waste taxpayer funds as re-election might occur. If the Federal Govt. has 2/3 majority then it will be different story, now with simple majority, these frogs should behave like guardian of democracy, if the simple majority govt. repeat the mistakes again, these frogs should do what is right to topple them. Frogs can also become hero why not?

By: k1980

k1980 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:25 +0000

If Tan Ean Huang is in Iran, she would had been stoned to death
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/NewsBreak/20080324170349/Article/index_html

By: kerishamuddinitis

kerishamuddinitis — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:13:01 +0000

he looks like me, sounds like me
but is fat and ugly, he is not me.

it looks constitutional, it sounds constitutional
but because the MB is not Idris, it is NOT constitutional

it looks like it a good team, it sounds like a good team
but Bodowi included Mud Tahi, Najis and Kerishamuddin,
it’s a CRAPBINET

he looks awake, he sounds intelligent
but when he opens the back-door for discarded
garbage, Bodowi is still ASLEEP!

it looked like a crime, it sounded like a crime
but Mud Tahi could not read Aussie (or England, American & Kiwi),
so today he is Zaid’s colleague. God save ‘Rural.’

he looks intelligent, he sounds educated
but Kerishamuddin is a racist, militant and waves the keris to threaten non-Malays, he has gotta be utterly STUPID!

What a CRABINET! God save Malaysia!

By: pulau_sibu

pulau_sibu — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:22:09 +0000

Uncle Lim, we want to discuss about Trengganu!

By: sean

sean — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:00:01 +0000

Well we should look at our neighbour’s up north Thailand.Go and check out their new constitution on the part for party hopping.Previously many elected candidates from previous election jump to another party like nobody business which gave good offer but now the elected representatives were to hop after getting elected then he or she will be made mandatory to resign from the post and a by election will be called.Go through the Thailand new constitution..it is interesting should one be interested.

By: nus

nus — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:06:20 +0000

What do we call the switch by Gerakan in Penang from opposition to join UMNO many years ago?

By: nus

nus — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:03:56 +0000

What do we call the switch by Gerakan in Penang to join UMNO?

By: ablastine

ablastine — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:32:34 +0000

I have watched some videos of DSAI campaign speech for his PKR party in the recent election and cannot help wondering why this guy is not the PM of Malaysia yet. The guy appeal to the masses across all racial divides, really knows what is happening, internationally quite well known and possibly respected especially now, extremely charismatic, been a Malay supremacist before supposedly awaken now, been a deputy prime minister and finance minister before, been to jail and out, been walloped by the Police before, being through the monkey courts of Malaysia, instrumental in uniting the opposition and simply sways anybody who happens to listen to him TALK. He had a large following before his fallout with the Mahathir dictator and it would be unwise to think that such followings have simply disappear in the thin air. I would rather that all this is coming back to him as he is well on track to become the next PM of Malaysia again. One cannot really know how much of networking he has established with his long tenure in office. The only thing that can stop him now is himself. If he does not screw it all up by becoming racist again he may even be up there before the next election. Mass defection to his PKR camp is not really so much of an impossibility considering this. I therefore do not think pwcheng argument that DSAI is really planning for the next election to be PM and have the anti-hopping law nicely in place for him to secure his position. He is possibly thinking of how to be PM before that. Watch this video and decide for yourself.

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8665011592312376468&hl=en