COMMENT | Umno’s dirty tricks return to haunt Zahid

COMMENT | I suppose in this period of détente, signalling Umno for mockery would be considered verboten, but who cares.

At Umno’s 77th-anniversary shindig, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi encouraged party members to counter the “toxic, racial" politics peddled by the "enemy".

Umno, which for decades stamped its imprimatur on any organisation or personality which demonised the DAP and opposition using racial and religious politics, is now attempting a reversal of its electoral fortunes by appealing to the centre of Malaysian politics.

All the toxic racial politics that PAS led PN are shovelling back at Umno and this unity government, are from the Umno’s playbook which served Zahid's party well for decades...