MPs, your presence matters
By SHAILA KOSHY
Physical presence is needed for the usual voice vote. But now, a fellow MP shouting louder to compensate for an absent voice is not going to cut it any more. Hollow drums, as they say, do make louder noise. And since many are hollow between them ears...
STAND up and be counted, that will be the message constantly drummed into the minds of Members of Parliament of both the Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat. Their physical presence is crucial after the Yang di-Pertuan Agong opens the 12th Parliament tomorrow. After the battle was won and lost, let's see who'll end up winning the war for the people. And hope the people will be better off, if those loud promises from both divide are to be believed.
And since the Opposition make up 82 this time to Barisan’s 140, of whom only 79 are backbenchers, the latter cannot afford to play truant or the day’s sitting could be adjourned after just two hours, wasting the taxpayers’ hard-earned monies and drawing ire from the Whip and the public. Yeah, remember the few keywords there Members of Parliament, taxpayer's hard-earned monies...
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