COMMENT | Budget vote - betrayed by Anwar and Harapan MPs

COMMENT | Today's headlines should have been dominated by one news item - that PN's Budget 2021 had been rejected and Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was vacating his office.

Instead, we sharpen our knives for Anwar Ibrahim and the leaders of the Harapan component parties namely, DAP and Amanah, who have failed the rakyat, yet again. They were sucked into Anwar's hidden agenda.

The rakyat are seething with rage, and Anwar's statement, "I told Harapan MPs to allow the budget to pass, but only for now," will drag Harapan into the gutter.

Are Harapan MPs closet sado-masochists? Do they enjoy inflicting more mental anguish on the electorate, and do they derive intense pleasure from the pain of obeying Anwar's orders?

Their shock announcement to support PN, sends out confusing and conflicting messages to the rakyat...