Hadi Awang has already eaten the kueh

TMI - PKR, DAP sceptical over Hadi’s conciliatory tone

This post is just to emphasize on what DAP's Tony Pua said of Hadi. TMI reported (extract only):

Selangor DAP chief Tony Pua was more harsh [than PKR's Rafizi Ramli] in his assessment, saying bluntly that there is no point being in an alliance if a partner is unwilling to respect and accept the consensus of the majority.

"If they can't even agree to the president of a coalition party being a minister in a state where they have the prerogative, then what's the point of being part of the coalition?

"Is it fair for one to have his cake and eat it too at others’ expense?" he said in a Whatsapp text message.

This difficult-to-understand English proverb "a man can not have his cake and eate his cake" was first used on 14 March 1538 in a letter from Thomas, Duke of Norfolk to Thomas Cromwell.

It has nothing to do with the myth* of Marie Antoinette's "let them eat cake". 

* 'twas a myth because she did not say it. It was a republican fabrication designed to demonize her

It means that a cake once eaten would no longer be available for the eater to be in possession of it. In other words one cannot have it BOTH WAYS.

In Pak Haji Hadi's case, he couldn't ignore Pakatan's coalition agreement on the Selangor MB issue to promote PAS own agenda (whether this be misogynistic or of some deal we don't know), and then say PAS will continue to stay in Pakatan (expecting the coalition members and supporters to continue supporting it).

Some claimed Pak Haji Hadi is only reaffirming PAS commitment to the coalition because he wants Selangor Pakatan to endorse PAS candidate, Iskandar Abdul Samad who is Selangor PAS commissioner, as the likely new MB.

And he hasn't made the matter any better by asserting PAS own agenda independent of (and likely at odds with) the coalition. TMI reported:

In his policy speech at PAS’s 60th assembly yesterday, Hadi said his Islamist party would continue its alliance with PR despite recent hiccups in their relations over the Selangor MB crisis and PAS's insistence in implementing hudud.

At the same time, he struck a note of independence in his speech, insisting that PAS would stick to its own principles and identity instead of blindly aping the agenda of other parties.

While the MB-ship of Iskandar Abdul Samad may be a factor in Pak Haji's suddenly-new-discovered friendliness towards Pakatan, I have a different take altogether, where I believe the bigger issue for Pak Haji is that he wants its Pakatan allies to continue persuading non-Muslims (Chinese, Indians, Sarawakians, Sabahans, Thais, Eurasians, etc) to continue supporting PAS, especially in GE-14.

No doubt some of the Erdogens' recent pragmatic screaming might have gotten into his thinking. So he still wants to have the Pakatan kaamcheng cake when he has already gulped it all down for his own party's agenda. 

That's what's meant by "He can't have his cake and eat it".

wakakaka, does above last line describe Pak Haji?

Nope, he can't have it BOTH WAYS. Pak Haji Hadi must choose between Pakatan and honouring all ensuing agreements reached by Pakatan, or (not 'and') his own PAS agenda which are at odds with Pakatan agreement.

But realistically, can he undo his sneaky swallowing of the Pakatan cake? By muntah-ing?

As the Malays would say "Nasi sudah menjadi bubur!"