When does a YB become a Tidak Berhormat?

So a senior UMNO MP has resigned as the President of the BBC, no not the British Broadcasting Corporation but the Back Benchers Club, the group of BN MPs who were not fortunate enough to be included in the oversized Malaysian Cabinet.

It seems that all BN MPs are not allowed any independent thinking but must blindly follow the principle that any motion proposed by the opposition must be opposed.

Never mind that the motion was a call for the MPs to decide if a fellow member had brought the Parliament into disrepute by interfering with the job of the Customs who had seized some illegal logs and were being asked to “close one eye.”

Many MPs were quoted as saying this is the usual role of MPs and their constituents can approach them to get the authorities to “close one eye” if they run foul of the law.

I don’t recall asking my MP in JB to cancel a parking coupon offence that was issued on my wife’s car that had been sold more than 10 years ago.

Asking authorities to “close one eye” is not good enough as it provides the opportunity for the parties involved to exchange favours with the other eye that is open.

Granted that some MPs have to do favours for well connected clients but they should not be allowed to instruct government departments on how to operate like “closing eyes.”

Is this the main reason that MPs are so reluctant for the IPCMC to be created? I mean they will lose a major channel to ask the police to “open and close eyes”.

As for the party whip, they should have lifted the whip and allowed a good debate rather than treat the BN MPs like mere morons. Or are they?

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