Difference between Nga Kor Ming and Azmin Ali

MM online - Is DAP’s Nga the new deputy Speaker? (extracts):

IPOH, July 12 ― Rumours are rife that DAP deputy secretary-general Nga Kor Ming could be in line for the Parliament deputy Speaker post, after the Teluk Intan MP missed out on a Cabinet post.

Pakatan Harapan sources informed Malay Mail that Nga, a veteran lawmaker and fiery orator, is believed to be one of the names considered for the post.

Nga, who is also Perak DAP chairman, was surprisingly missing from the Cabinet line-up--despite having led the state DAP to a 100 per cent record in GE14, where they won all 18 seats contested.

There is no denying that on political performance and experience Nga Kor Ming rates very highly, both in the DAP and in general Malaysian politics.

He led his state party to convincing victories in election fights very convincing time and time again. He has been a flamboyant fiery orator, with a skilled ability to sprout Quranic verses in front of Muslim crowds, and definitely a favourite of the Perak pro DAP constituency.

But his inability to join the Mahathir cabinet has been due to one problem, his rude, uncouth and insensitive remarks about Mahathir, in particular on the Old man's age. During the GE14 campaign, Nga was reported to have said in his ceramah:

... that the 14th General Election was the best time to change the government as they have Dr Mahathir to help them, and that “Dr Mahathir could be dead” by the time the 15th General Election comes.

He remarked: “When Mahathir dies, when he ‘checks into’ the afterlife, and the next election comes and Mahathir isn’t here, what other ways are there?"

“None, right? That’s why we have to seize this opportunity The horse (Dr Mahathir) kills the chicken (Najib); if we miss this opportunity, we may have to wait another 60 years.”

Not very brilliant, civilised nor sensitive, but that was vintage Nga, who knew what to say to the Hew Kuan Yau-type crowd who adored his fighting words. As the socio-political semi-downtrodden, they were hungry for the Big Boss' verbal political punches.

But more couth and better brought up Chinese described Nga embarrassingly as most "un-Chinese", a damning insult to a Chinese which I had previously ascribed to Tony Pua - see my post un-Chinese Tony Pua.

It's almost as insulting as the second most insulting remark to a Chinese, to wit, "Your parents failed to teach you manners" (peh-boe4 boe3 karsee - the numerals after 'boe' indicate the respective fourth and third tone) because such a remark-insult stabs directly and most painfully into Chinese hearts to remind them of their parents' alleged failure (to bring up their children with proper manners and civilised behaviour), which no Chinese could, should nor want to accept or hear.

And then Pakatan won and Mahathir became the PM. Nga was thus fCk-ed kaukau, wakakaka.

Much as Lil' Boy Blue cried and cried and cried, Lau Mah (Mahathir) would have no truck with the coarse-mouth stevedore-like DAP street-fighter. Pak Cik Hang Tuah showed his silat harimau rules supreme over the Big Boss' Wing Chun (which impatient Bruce Lee did not complete anyway).

Thus, despite Nga's seniority, experience, powerful performance and oratory skills (including quoting relevant Quranic verses), he missed out on a cabinet appointment (and if I may say so, most fortunately for the Foreign Ministry department, wakakaka).

But you can't leave a dangerous mouth on the loose, so the deputy speaker position may be offered as a consolation prize to him (to be approved-confirmed by Lau Mah, wakakaka) - see my earlier post More on Speaker of Dewan Rakyat in which I mentioned: Thus the Speaker's job was to be his, in a deep tussle between PKR and DAP where both parties are still resentful with their disproportionately low allocations of ministerial posts. Somehow PKR, blessed by a far more pribumi-ish mien, won in that stoush. DAP has been rumoured to receive the deputy speaker's post.

But I wrote in un-Chinese Tony Pua that Tony Pua in begging Azmin Ah Hneah (Abang) for a deputy Speaker post for DAP as a quid pro quo for supporting PKR in the Kajang bullshit, was shameful, as follows:

WTF for, man, because that was akin to wandering into MCA, Gerakan and MIC territory of picking up f* meaningless crumbs!

Assuming Lau Mah approves, wakakaka, would a proud and capable man like Nga accept a deputy speaker position? It's a political crumb.

But consider the Grand Canyon-ish difference between Nga Kor Ming and Azmin Ali vis-a-vis Lau Mah's perception as follows:

(a) DAP recommended and cried for a ministerial position for Nga but Lau Mah said fCk-off, and

(b) PKR did NOT recommend nor beg for a ministerial post for Azmin Ali (because he was already MB and should not be a federal minister), but nonetheless Lau Mah made him the Economics Minister (factually against PKR's nomination list).

wonder what Uncle wants me to "do"?
neutralise Guan Eng or kowtim "someone"?

Did Lau Mah intrude, interfere and intervene into PKR's nomination list for his unknown personal strategic aim or has it been to "look after" a nephew?