The government is truly WHIPPED.
Y'all will have to pardon the snark, but I haven't had breakfast at the time I'm writing this - THAT, and I come downstairs after a sleepless night to see, right smack dab on the front of the NST:
"We cannot allow (MPs to vote on motions according to conscience, rather than political lines). They must stick with convention and not support an Opposition motion. We must have party discipline."
And here I was hoping that it was just the NST, just a misquote. Nope. About the same thing in The Star.
"Everyone knows the rules and mot only must they understand them, they must also abide by them."
Here's the online NST version and here's The Star's. Good...well, good NOTHING, this is like some grim, parodical repetition of the whole Family Law fiasco a coupla months back where the female MPs were forced to vote for it despite the prelim version being, to keep it short and polite, rather chauvinistic. All the same, this is the first I've heard of The Whip. Huh. Smacks of Big Brotherism. Not to mention it's PAK LAH! Abdullah Badawi, the, you know, REASONABLE one. if y'all compare him to the recent mahathir shenanigans... I hardly expected him to deny the expression of conscience and the inherent good in man.
Dato'-dato' sekalian (Honoured sirs), if you can't stand up for all the good and just things you believe in, what's the use of getting into politics? (There you go, Marion, the reason why Chinese don't get into the government.)
At least he said the Jasin MP was in the wrong. What a complete asshat! Seems like one requirement for entry into that club is a frontal lobotomy. =o= Gender discrimination and alternate medicine jokes and asking the customs department to close one eye...
P.S. - Mr Star caricature artist? So you're drawing a leatherback. Great. I'll forgive you for the colour scheme, but REALLY! The strips on the turtle's bottom shell are vertical, not horizontal, they don't have claws on their front flippers and what happened to the insanely huge flapping front vs. the tiddy widdy back flippers?!
"We cannot allow (MPs to vote on motions according to conscience, rather than political lines). They must stick with convention and not support an Opposition motion. We must have party discipline."
And here I was hoping that it was just the NST, just a misquote. Nope. About the same thing in The Star.
"Everyone knows the rules and mot only must they understand them, they must also abide by them."
Here's the online NST version and here's The Star's. Good...well, good NOTHING, this is like some grim, parodical repetition of the whole Family Law fiasco a coupla months back where the female MPs were forced to vote for it despite the prelim version being, to keep it short and polite, rather chauvinistic. All the same, this is the first I've heard of The Whip. Huh. Smacks of Big Brotherism. Not to mention it's PAK LAH! Abdullah Badawi, the, you know, REASONABLE one. if y'all compare him to the recent mahathir shenanigans... I hardly expected him to deny the expression of conscience and the inherent good in man.
Dato'-dato' sekalian (Honoured sirs), if you can't stand up for all the good and just things you believe in, what's the use of getting into politics? (There you go, Marion, the reason why Chinese don't get into the government.)
At least he said the Jasin MP was in the wrong. What a complete asshat! Seems like one requirement for entry into that club is a frontal lobotomy. =o= Gender discrimination and alternate medicine jokes and asking the customs department to close one eye...
P.S. - Mr Star caricature artist? So you're drawing a leatherback. Great. I'll forgive you for the colour scheme, but REALLY! The strips on the turtle's bottom shell are vertical, not horizontal, they don't have claws on their front flippers and what happened to the insanely huge flapping front vs. the tiddy widdy back flippers?!