MINDLESS LIM KIT SIANG AT 54TH COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE

By : Pemikir Negara


Lim Kit Siang should by now understand how the government works. He has been in parliament for a long time and by now he should focus on big matters. He should always remind himself to comment on measures to enhance the quality of life of Malaysians.

Lim Kit Siang should not allow himself to waste good time on trivial issues such as punctuality of arrivals of guests to ceremonies, specifically, 54th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference. He should avoid from being presumptous about anything, particularly as an old MP. Keep abreast with events and development happening in Malaysia or in his Ipoh Timur area.

What he should do during the 54th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference recently was to participate in the deliberations with several foreign delegates. Lim Kit Siang should delve in substantive matters rather than procedural. His job was not to watch the running of the conference, including, observing, who turned up or don’t during the session. The Prime Minister could not come because he had a matter of state to handle at that particular time. This is, indeed, a straight forward case and, therefore, distortions made by Lim Kit Siang in his blog were prematured.

Political observers found it amusing to see Lim Kit Siang, a so-called student of Alex Josey (Singaporean), desocialised himself from foreign delegates who wanted to know more about Malaysia and our Parliament. Perhaps, he might have even used the occasion to debase the Malaysian Parliament.

Our piece of advice to Lim Kit Siang is that as a senior politician, he should manifest positive outlook especially when attending a big conference of this nature. We would like to grade ‘E-‘ for his performance at the Conference.