Thursday, February 05, 2009

Lost the Battle, Win the War?

Things have unraveled pretty much as many expected in the last 24 hours. That BN managed to wrestle control of the state without the dissolution of the state government was to be expected, given the desperate state of affairs.

Whatever victory squeezed from this exercise will be severely clouded by the fact that the will of the citizen has been blatantly ignored. What signal will this send to all Malaysians?

Unless BN is willing to run an unpopular campaign in the next GE, this is a grave mistake. Those 3 hoppers and 1 double hopper have no more political clout, and will be seen as traitors to be despised on both sides of the aisles in due time.

Change remains elusive but only for so long...

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