• Post Election
  
  It’s been quite amusing reading the various “post election” articles in the Sun over the last couple of weeks.
  What seems to be obvious is that the opposition (or should I say alternative?), who are now the state government in 5 states are trying hard to clean up dodgy contracts, policies, etc. and start a new era of governance.
  The ruling government, on the other hand, seems so caught up in conducting “post mortems” of what went wrong.
  How can it be so blindingly clear to the “rakyat” but so unclear to our elected BN reps?
  Didn’t we say, in countless instances, that we felt corruption was rife and could see no signs of it reducing?
  Didn’t we say that we felt that the safety of our children and families were not sufficiently protected by our police force?
  Didn’t we march in unison, in the thousands, to demand equality, and honesty?
  
  What I really feel hard to understand is…..what is it that went so wrong for the BN anyway?
  
  The BN have still been given the mandate to run the country, only this time without the 2/3 majority. THEY DID NOT LOSE.
  
  Shouldn’t our PM be saying that this is a good thing?
  
  The current status will allow the government to now become more transparent and MPs will have to truly perform to gain the trust and support of the public. Both the BN and the opposition will have to work hard FOR the people to ensure they stay in power. The “rakyat” now have a positive choice to decide what they want for their future.
  
  Isn’t this really good?
  
  Doesn’t this clearly show how Malaysia and Malaysians have come a long way, 50 years since independence?
  
  The bottom line is clear. What our leaders need to do is:
• Work for the people. (This is what a government is supposed to do in the first place!)
• Get ministers into office which have sound education, intelligence and a high level of performance.
• Listen to grievances of the people with an open mind.
• Raise salaries of deserving government servants to make corruption ineffective. (Take Singapore as an example to achieve this.)
• Give incentives to deserving police personnel. (Again we can look across the causeway for advice on this as well.)
• Move away from racial and religious issues. The people have clearly shown that quality of a candidate is the far greater factor.
• STOP SPENDING MONEY ON NONSENSE!!! (Like the astronaut programme, buying jet fighters, etc)
  
  I hope they will see this past election as a new start to creating a better government.