PM, since when 47pct a majority and 51pct isn’t?
Najib: Silent majority still supports leadership
Perhaps your understanding is based on some world-class Malaysian teaching technique that the rest of the world is envious of?
Wira: Since when is 47% a majority and 51% isn’t? If he says the silent majority in Parliament supports BN which made him the PM, then he is right. He cannot say the same about the citizens in this country.
The majority supported the person your apparatus locked up in Sungai Buloh.
Versey: There’s a saying – “The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.”
The majority of the “silent majority” could be disillusioned, disenchanted, disheartened and disabuse by all the empty and ‘U-turned’ promises.
They might have given up hope of the promised ‘transformation’ programme, thus don’t care a hoot of the “utter rubbish” heard.
The majority of the general public could have “no eyes see” and just waiting silently for the next GE.
Headhunter: Has Najib Razak forgotten that the silent majority voted against the BN and if not for the gerrymandering and dirty tricks by the Election Commission, he wouldn’t be the PM today?
He speaks about extremists, but at the same time his government is funding them.
Hang Babeuf: Yes, some extremist are breaking the nation apart – and Najib’s Umno is deeply complicit in their agenda.
So it has no political ground of its own to stand on, even if it wanted to oppose or restrain them. But many in Umno don’t even want to do that.
They are happy with the continuing incremental advances, pre-GE14, of the “In the name of Islam, Malays on top, now and forever!” crowd. Ugly – and deeply worrying.
JD Lovrenciear: Anyone who stands up to disagree with Najib is an “extremist”. It’s time for Oxford and Webster to change the meaning of ‘extremist’ in their dictionaries.
Perhaps we should start with our schools first to show the world the way. By your definition, former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad is now an ‘extremist’.
Firestone: Hello, the extremists such as Isma, Perkasa, Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, Zulkifli Noordin, Syed Ali Alhabshee – these are all your people, Najib.
Well Thats Fantastic: This is standard operating procedure for a failing leadership – inject fear.
Swot Strategist: It is a great shame that our PM spent time pondering his rights as a leader instead of his awesome responsibilities as a leader.
The PM must hold his public servants accountable for their actions in accordance to acceptable standards not the way our home minister who unilaterally issued support letter for a detained gambling king or the attorney-general and inspector-general of police both continue to assert discretionary and selective persecutions, and the agriculture minister justifying the boycott Chinese traders, etc.
Ultimately, it is the Malaysian public who pays them to be responsible, accountable and not to behave otherwise.
Appum: For over 50 years, the Umno-led government has been spinning the same old jazz to the Indian community and yet, for 50 years the Indian community has swallowed everything hook, line and sinker. What else do the Indians here want?
Gunnerrun: Since you are silent on most important issues that are screaming for some form of leadership from you, you must belong to the group you call silent majority too.
What a shame, a silent PM from the silent minority…
Anonymous$&@?: With the lack of leadership as required of a nation’s leader in dealing with BN’s hudud stance and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the silent majority has resolved to stick with the opposition.
Is it because BN won in the last election via gerrymandering that made the PM mistook/attribute the victory (that was actually won by the silent majority – 51%) to support from the minority 47%?
Dalvik: There you have it: the new theory of silent majority.
I just want to know if your elegant silence on many major issues, such as hudud implementation and 1MDB, etc. Did those also mean ‘support’ of those issues, too?
Anonymous #63706489: In my opinion, Najib is no more effective and need to resign and all allegations against him must be investigated.
Haveagreatday: Indeed, Najib forgot that there is no silent majority. If there is anything for him, there is a silent minority.
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