A real alternative: Jeremy Corbyn’s strong showing has lessons for Pakatan

Isa Samad appointed as new acting SPAD chairperson shows a lack of young talent within Umno?

What say you, Umno Youth?

A real alternative: Look for better alternatives –
Chow Kon Yeow, Ramkarpal, Wan Azizah, Yap Soo Huey (potential), Pakatan Harapan.

Abstain from arrogant politicians.
Abstain from ex-triad turn politicians.
‘Ex-triad chief now Penang politician’
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/09/05/ex-triad-chief-now-penang-politician/

The outcome of the next GE will be determined by bread-and-butter issues instead of 1MDB scandals and headline-grabbing deals with China investors, reported Straits Times today.

In a forum titled “Malaysia’s Next GE: The Perils And Prospects” held in Singapore yesterday, panellists agreed that these scandals were not enough to oust BN in the next general election.

http://m.malaysiakini.com/news/385513

After so many days, no one add to the list. Go and jiak kai kee.

Now, this is not something new – the underworld linked to political parties.
It can happen anywhere, not only in Penang.
Gangsters or former gangsters in the guise of businessmen or politicians is also not something new.

It takes more than political will to weed out such undesirable elements who can do more damage to those we trusted in the ballots.
BUT money can do wonders, so much so the source is inconsequential to those we trusted to lead.
As long as Money Talks or Money Closes the Eyes.

Nab ‘politically-linked’ gambling kingpins now, demands Zahid
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/385474
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has instructed the police to arrest and jail gambling kingpins who sponsor political parties.

Without elaborating or mentioning the names of the political parties, Ahmad Zahid said this is a concern raised by the various communities.

“Use the law, arrest and jail them,” Ahmad Zahid told the police during a buka puasa event in Balik Pulau.

Zahid said crimes related to gambling was the highest in Penang, urging state police chief Chuah Ghee Lye to focus on the area.

Political fatigue happening so Anil should focus on daily issues faced by the people and how to overcome them with or without BN or PakatN Harapan.

If Anil cares to survey the ground, he will notice business climate now not rosy with many shops closure. Spending customers now becoming less and selective and many businesses cannot sustain. Likely many Penangites already got burnt big time by money games, and now have less disposable income to splash around.

Youths disillusioned due to political fatigue, says IDEAS
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/06/10/youths-disillusioned-due-to-political-fatigue-says-ideas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FreeMalaysiaToday+%28FMT+News%29

KUALA LUMPUR: The majority of Malaysia’s youths no longer have the energy to care about current political events in the country, says Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) chief operating officer Tricia Yeoh today.
“Despite the fact that there are many weighty issues, there is a sense of political fatigue out there among the youth,” she said.
She said the youths generally no longer distinguished between different sides of the political divide.
“To them, politicians are all the same, they are all corrupt,” she told a forum entitled “Emerging issues in Malaysia for the coming GE14 (14th general election)” at the Wesley Legacy Centre here.
Yeoh added that the sense of apathy was not helped by the fact that religious and racial issues often took precedence in politics, and had the tendency to dominate the political narrative in the country.
“Racial and religious issues keep coming up, and small things get blown out of proportion. Because of this, neither side has the chance to talk about issues that really matter,” she said.
She also said the media’s tendency to cover such issues that undermine the more serious concerns only served to make the matter worse.
Yeoh urged youths not to give in to feelings of disillusionment as politicians needed to be pressured into doing the right things.
“Politicians follow sentiment. The only reason PAS is gung-ho about hudud (Islamic criminal punishment) is that they think that’s what people want,” she said.
“Politicians aren’t hearing the people’s voices clearly enough. If the voice is clear then they will follow the sentiment.
“If, however, they don’t feel their positions are under threat, they won’t move,” she added.

What I’ve heard from Pakatan at ceramahs and Youtube have been mostly of them highlighting the corrupt UMNO practices and 1MDB scandals. Only Rafizi has told us a little of what we can expect if Pakatan wins, but that speech was a long time ago. I’d like to hear what changes we can expect if Pakatan becomes the new government. It should be a manifesto of hope and security. Of removing the GST, highway tolls, JPJ, Immigration, Customs corruption, too. Of real transparency of govt dealings. Of replacing corrupt police personal, which I guess, is almost everyone. Of replacing our judiciary. Every govt department has these little Napoleans who makes our lives a just little difficult. Then when they’ve won, do all these in 4 years before GE15. They can hang the 1MDB, Altantuya, etc. guilty parties after carrying out their manifesto.

The French are supposedly socialist and intellectual, but they ended up electing a Rothschild employee (ex-banker) as President. He is alreading baring his teeth and ripping up public benefits.

Corbyn has stated many thruths about the global religion of capitalism as it affects his country, which the mass media suppresses. The apocalypse of climate change is the final gift capitalism brings to the world. Younger people – those below 50 or so – know that it is going to wreck their lives and kill most of them horribly.

This does not mean Corbyn will not do a u-turn like Trump. Don’t blame those who voted Trump in. At least, he lied that he was anti-war, unlike H Clinton.

If Anil to helm Penang Labour Party, most supporters are foreigh expatriates labourers, but at least his presence can stir up the scene, so wh not?

If Gelakan or Huan or Kaffa Ooi can provide disgruntled Penangites better housing and transport plan then we can expect The Cats going back to the basics rather than allegedly overzealous in developing in concrete highways and lifestyle homes.
But I doubt they can domesticate the cats running wild with ideas apparently not friendly towards planetization efforts.