Speakers' Corner

Occasional contributions from readers, which do not necessarily reflect the views of Sarawak Report but may be published at the discretion of the site

We All Need Advice From Time To Time

It must be questioned whether the Speaker took qualified legal advice on his interpretation of the Constitution when rejecting a motion from a PH member. According to Press reports he based his rejection on a claim that the motion “questioned the power of the Agong to appoint a Prime Minister”. Of course it does nothing […]

Little Dictator?

A Press report quotes “senior minister” Ismail Sabri as stating that if a single employee of a company contracts coronavirus “we will shut it down”. Would the same principle apply if a PN “minister” got the disease? Unsurprisingly the “senior minister” seems to be confused as to his role, his duties and his powers. The

Thieves Continuing To Fall Out

UMNO Vice President Khaled Nordin has publicly attacked fellow PN associate and PH traitor “Senior Minister” Azmin of failing to obtain, and by implication arrogantly disdaining to get state governments approval for a new movement control order which is supposed to become effective today (4th May) Azmin, whose arrogance is as well known as his

Sorry You Were Starving

A “deputy Federal Minister” is reported in the Press as confirming that there were “problems” as he put it with food distribution during the MCO period. He did not, apparently, think it necessary to expand on the nature of the problems or who was responsible for falling to deal with them. But as PN are

When Thieves Fall Out”

As the proverb tells us, chaos follows. The validity of this saying is again being proved by events in Johor where UMNO/BN are apparently upset by Bersatu attempts to take control of the State Assembly. This latest spat between “allies” proves the fragility of the PN coup government headed by Johor’s invalid (in both senses

Wait In The Car!

In his latest publicity boob “senior minister” Ismail Sabri is reported as telling shoppers that one person should “wait in the car” while the other shopped. He was referring the new PN ruling allowing two persons to go on shopping trips. Does the “minister”, one wonders, know how many Malaysians do their shopping by car

Above The Law

“Senior” Minister Ismail Sabri is reported as excusing MCO breaches by senior members of his party on the ground that they “were only visiting and helping the needy.”  So thats all right then and PN can continue to ignore the law as they and their very highly placed backers have done over the “parliament/Prime Minister”

Sick Of Politics?

Is what “acting prime minister” is reported as saying about the Malaysian public. In a sense, though unintended by him, he is right. The public are most certainly sick of the crooked political manoeuvres by which he found himself in power through the political actions of the Head of State. The public are also sick

No Politics Please

Lengthy Press reports detail the news and actions of the Agong, particularly about the covid epidemic, and all laudatory of the PN “coup” government. It is quite wrong and unconstitutional for the Agong to express political views; which, as Head of State, he should not hold or express publicly. Possibly he thinks that having caused

Why Not?

The Agong having, as prescribed by the Constitution, appointed PN figurehead Muyhiddin as Prime Minister, should be the first among millions of Malaysians to want to see if he had made the correct choice; whatever the means by which he had arrived at it. It is possible, it appears, for the Assembly to meet on

Is Malaysia A Parliamentary Democracy, Or Isn’t It?

When the then Malaya asked for, and was granted, independent nation status in 1957 the agreed arrangements were based on the principle that the new nation would be a parliamentary democracy. That was also the basis of the establishment in 1963 of Malaysia to include the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah. Accordingly an

PN Starves The Needy

PH Assembly members are having to use their personal funds to buy basic foodstuffs for the needy while PN members are provided with public money for the same purpose. How corrupt can politicians get? When even starving citizens is a political tactic. But not one that will win many votes. Those already in the PN

Well Being And National Interest

If such matters are to be used as an excuse for meetings with an illegitimate Prime Minister, in place through official connivance at the highest level, then it would be wise to explain the matters in question publicly and in detail. Vague deflections of queries convince no one and, worse, give rise to what may

Starving The People. Round Two

After the recently exposed scandal of PN supporting GPS in Sarawak trying to limit the issue of food aid to persons selected by its State assembly members, the same despicable attempt appears to have been tried in Semananong; specifically in Penang where a “deputy education “Minister” issued an official letter to the Welfare Department listing

Everyone Must Follow The Covid Rules

Thus “Senior Minister” Ismail Sabri. But it appears that, according to the same “Senior Minister”, everyone does not include what he called people’s representatives. They, and among them must be venal politicians who have “frogged” to PN, can, it appears, visit their constituents. That decision sums up both the idiocy and the venality of PN.

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