It’s Not about BN

Perkasa and several other parties has raised some very pertinent points vis a vis the proposal to transform BN into a single party.   
               

The fact is, in every General Elections, including the 12th(tsunami) and 13th(Chinese tsunami) UMNO perform remarkably well.  The fact is, the party has never been beaten.
               

However, the same can’t be said about the other BN component parties in the Peninsular. What is to be questioned though is the performance of Chinese based parties. They quite unable to stand up to the DAP. They are not convincing when explaining Government policies, defensive when confronted by Dong Ziao Jong and the other Dongs. Most of all, they are themselves apologetic and apprehensive of the NEP which could be regarded as the mother of all issues misleading the Chinese community. Add to all that, the various teams and factions and the continuous infighting within MCA especially.

Thus, in the eyes of many in the Chinese populace, Chinese component parties in the BN were perceived as weak and worse, as bullied by UMNO and floundering.
               

This gave credence to all sorts of racist accusations by the DAP against the BN/UMNO while at the same time raised their stature in the eyes of the Chinese.

               

The end result of all that and more is that the MCA and Gerakan became irrelevant and redundant vis a vis the DAP and hence were discarded.

So it is, the Chinese component parties in BN, that need to come out with a formula to regain Chinese trust. The ball is at their feet. Let’s see whether they can still play well as a team and contribute by scoring the necessary number of goals.