COMMENT | What's in a name?

COMMENT | What’s in a name? Nothing much by the looks of it in the case of Bersatu.

United together as one? What a misnomer. They should be named "Berdua" or "Bersatu-Bersatu".

And will be so for some time until the party has its elections, and one camp can decimate the other… or not.

Like the recent naval skirmish within the ranks of Bersatu Youth’s Armada. After a meeting of youth exco members and state leaders, the admiralty announced that the fleet would stay loyal to Harapan, the decision endorsed "by more than two-thirds of the members, while the rest abstained and none opposed".

Within a day there was mutiny in the ranks, with a claim that 143 party divisions, out of 191 in the fleet, had nailed their colours to the mast of the party’s supreme council, and would remain tied to the government unless ordered otherwise.

The was followed soon after by youth leaders saying they were not consulted and did not give approval for their colours to be nailed to the mast of PN. More sabre-rattling with a lot of sound and fury... signifying nothing.

The juvenile spat did give me a...