As Expected, Bersatu Lost Badly At Tanjung Piai: Will Mahathir Step Down As The Pm?

As I had expected, Bersatu stood no chance of winning the Tanjung Piai by-election.

It duly lost the parliamentary constituency to the opposition by a good margin.

Voters have shown that they were not happy with Mahathir's performance as the Pm.

As long as the grand old man stays on as the Pm, PH will surely lose the next general election to BN-Pas.

That is a prospect no sane Bolehlander welcomes by choice. Still, with Mahathir at the helm, what difference is there between PH and the BN- Pas tieup?

Mahathir has shown that he is not the man to bring about a new Bolehland.

The man is stuck in the past.

Unable or unwilling to move with the times, the Pm continues with the politics of old.

Race and religion continue to be allowed to be flogged for all that their unedifying worth, instead of endeavours at unifying the country and bringing everyone abroad irrespective of their race or religion and making every citizen feel welcome and appreciated.

Second time under Mahathir, Bolehland seems to have stood still. The economy is not moving ahead. We are still stuck at rehashing old policies - another Bolehland car project to haunt the nation for starters.

Nipponese loans.

Creeping crony capitalism again?

And what have you.

A reluctance to ring in reforms that will see the nation unshackled from the past where power was all concentrated in one person that had eventually led to the world's worst case kleptocracy in the Ah Jib administration.

Mahathir should realise that he is not the only one qualified to be the Pm. He may want to believe this of himself. Sadly, not many others do.

One should be big enough to realise that his time has passed.

It is time to pass the baton to Anwar.

And give the nation the chance of a new direction.