Monday, May 08, 2006

the party whip

The party whip used to toe members to party line. If it is in the party, I dont have any complaint. It is within the party rights. But in Parliament? Parliament is above all parties rules and regulations. These MPs represent the mandate from the people not the party. So how can a party whip decide the outcome of any rules or laws? It is absolute absurd that Parliament bows to party wishes. So what is Parliament for? A rubber stamp just to justify that my country is democratic? It is time that all MPs should declare that they owned their allegiance to the people and party comes second. Any law or rules that seem to make the people suffer should be removed by Parliament. No other body should pass rules or laws as if they run the country. Now we have local councils acting as the Lord of the people and we pay them for it? These local presidents and officers dont care what the people say. Mind you they are the Lords. They forget what is 'civil servant'. I am living in this country and the laws are meant to benefit the elite party and the rest of the people can only observe the wrongdoings running out from the administration
of the government and the local councils. The ironic issue is the federal minister has no jurisdiction over the state administration. The PM can only advice the chief ministers...though in party line these chief executives of the states report to the PM. So in this area I see the dividing line to usurp authority from the PM..yet the laws have not been changed. In Parliament every MP should be allowed to second motions from any source -BN or opposition - as long as it benefits the people. Currrently this never happens. The next election there will be major drawbacks for the ruling government.

Malaysia.....time to change the scenes

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