SDC and NDC

Johor had their SDC on the 23rd in Batu Pahat recently. It was held at the Garden Hotel with a CC meeting on the 22nd in Kulai. That means there was an unsually large entourage of guest this time around. Kulai Division took the opportunity to hold a 200 tables out door dinner in Kelapa Sawit on the night of the 22nd. By all accounts it was considered a success.

Before the conference, there was much noise from the JB division proposing to launch a vote of no confidence on the present chairman at the conference. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and Tan Sri was able to cool down the temperature of rhetoric. However, during the meeting MP from Simpang Renggam, Datuk Kerk, took pot shots at the current leadership for not doing more for the chinese education considering its origins.

Which of course bring us to the "Anwar argument." Such tirades has been issued often enough by our former DPM against the previous goverment leadership and also the present one. The question that begs answering is what was he doing when he was in the leadership? It is difficult to fault something you are a part of. With one finger pointing at others, there are three pointing back at you. Unless you are totally out of the loop while you are in goverment, you can't absolved yourself from the taint of association. And if you are out of the loop, a bigger question begs an answer, WHY?

NDC is around the corner, on the 6th and 7th October. This year NDC is to be focused on the Rukun Negara. Being a non-racial party, Gerakan supports the universality of the Rukun Negara because it provides and protects all and discriminate none. We should uphold the law as envisioned by our forefathers. But I think the major problem with the goverment now is that nobody gets sacked. If we can get this into the goverment, I believe all major problems could be solved.

The leadership is so scared to thread on this sensitive issue that they even suggested VSS for problem employees. Is it because the goverment is too big and we need their votes? Or is it we think we can not do without the machinery that runs the goverment, even though the machinery is rusted to the core and needs a major overhaul. Something should be done and the first thing is to sack somebody. That would put fear into the bellies of the so called servants of the goverment and bring down those little Napoleons to earth.