Najib’s Penchant for Flip-Flopping More Prounounced Now
Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad
Najib penchant for flip-flopping has never been more pronounced. I couldn’t but now agree to a friend’s suggestion that the 6th Malaysian PM must be most appropriately recognized as the ‘Father of All-Floppers’. A year after in the office of the PM, Najib has yet to deliver anything substantial. In my piece on Najib’s 1-year Tenure – ‘Trying to be all things to all people’, I’ve said that Najib may end up ‘satsifying no one’. For trying to appease everyone, Najib has turned to be a ‘flip-flopper’ that would have placed his immediate predecessor into oblivion.
To recap, Najib has flip-flopped on the GST – a value-added tax based on consumption that he vehemently argued would do good to the flagging government’s coffer. True, but critics have it that timing is the essence and not when the rakyat is strangulated in a middle-income trap and a higher performing economy based on productivity is no where in sight while the country continues to rely on low-skilled 3 millions foreign labour. He flip-flops and delays the eventual debate in the parliament blaming it on reasons that the public wasn’t consulted enough.
He flip-flops on the 2-tier mechanism on petrol subsidy and to date still fails to table a national blue-print on ‘subsidy’ that will clearly spell out the BN’s stand on the entire issue that will clear the air once and for all. He is hesitant and is still undecided. He dares not bite the bullet much as he wants to eat and keep his cake simultaneously.
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