UMNO sinking feeling about unsinkable NFC
Free Malaysia Today - Forget NFC, go for Mindef, says Zaid.
Zaid Ibrahim is of course absolutely correct, that the snout in the Defence trough is slurping up greedily by frightening billionS of ringgits, not just mere millions, as compared to mere cow feed.
However, as many, especially RPK, often said, politics is all about perception, and the NFC mess is certainly a political 'steak' that to the public is a far more juicier and easily identified scandal than the Defence Ministry questionable purchase of multi-billion dollar (not multi-million) Second Generation Patrol Vessels (SGPV) from Direction Technique des Constructions Navales (DCNS), the company which Malaysia also purchased the unsinkable Scorpene submarines – unsinkable because they won't submerge in the first place wakakaka.
Because the PM has refused to, or couldn't, or dared not sack Shahrizat immediately to put the matter to rest, it has become (for Pakatan) a Heaven-sent-come embarrassment against UMNO which the rakyat in the heartland can easily comprehend and tut-tut (or p'tui) in disgust, ...
Zaid Ibrahim is of course absolutely correct, that the snout in the Defence trough is slurping up greedily by frightening billionS of ringgits, not just mere millions, as compared to mere cow feed.
However, as many, especially RPK, often said, politics is all about perception, and the NFC mess is certainly a political 'steak' that to the public is a far more juicier and easily identified scandal than the Defence Ministry questionable purchase of multi-billion dollar (not multi-million) Second Generation Patrol Vessels (SGPV) from Direction Technique des Constructions Navales (DCNS), the company which Malaysia also purchased the unsinkable Scorpene submarines – unsinkable because they won't submerge in the first place wakakaka.
Because the PM has refused to, or couldn't, or dared not sack Shahrizat immediately to put the matter to rest, it has become (for Pakatan) a Heaven-sent-come embarrassment against UMNO which the rakyat in the heartland can easily comprehend and tut-tut (or p'tui) in disgust, ...
Laksamana Hang Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
... whereas they (rakyat) won't in the case of the SGPV because ! Laksaman a Hang Ahmad Zahid Hamidi will chong them kau kau that it's necessary to defend the Malays against unpatriotic 'elements' or the Nepali or Laotian Navy.
KD Ahmad Zahid Hamidi - RMN Scorpène-NFC class beef-submarinesAnyway, Zaid hit the spot when he declared: "It's comical and unfair for some Umno leaders to ask Shahrizat to resign when they are all in the same pot."
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