With Umno’s defeat in the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election last week, the ruling party’s chances of resurgence now seem even more remote. Bizarre, that the prime minister-in-waiting Najib Abdul Razak was quick to dismiss it being a no confidence vote on his impending premiership.

Najib is still living in Cloud Cuckoo Land, safe in the belief that the 3-M strategy: the media, money and machinery, could be thoroughly shaped up for more effective electoral manipulation when he takes over the reins in March.