I refer to he letter Why I would not want Najib as my PM .

I read with interest the above letter on why Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak with his silver spoon and mediocre Nottingham University record should not be our next prime minister.

In the 1960s, a group of us in London as students in the glorious days a few years after Merdeka, were as integrated as can be.

Then came the infamous Razak education policy, which in short, downgraded the study of English and substituted in its place Malay. This shorted sighted experiment in infantile nationalism is the root cause of the demise of our academic excellence as we knew it..

We all know in London, that while the ministers, in the name of patriotism, were proudly exhorting the study of Malay as the national language in public, they were quietly sending their children to the UK to study in English.

Not in just any old English school, but in the case of Najib Razak - a public English school in Epsom. The hypocrisy continues to this day.

My kids - together with thousands of other Malaysian schoolchildren - suffered under the education policy started by Najib's father and now to be perpetuated by Razak’s son if he becomes PM.

No one who has not suffered as a parent in Malaysia today from the discriminatory education policy can hope to understand the sheer hypocrisy of the successive ministers of education.

If you cannot understand why a flawed education policy is a major factor in Malaysia's downward spiral from developing country to Third World status, then you should not be PM.

I am aware that Anwar Ibrahim was once education minister but man... he has suffered. Suffering brings an understanding of man's condition and to his credit, this man has understood the basic flaws.

The scrapping of the so-called New Economic Policy is one sign of this. It is no exaggeration to say none of the current crop of minsters has suffered as much as this man.

None of them has got the work rate as this man- if English Premier League footballers measure the top players at 10-12 kilometre per match, Anwar's has run into marathons.

I have watched Anwar from Ijok to now Permatang Pauh. His energy is phenomenal.

Najib is hoping like all his past endeavours, the top job in the country conveniently falls into his lap.

This would be the equivalent of - as my Guyanan friend puts it - sitting in your garden with open mouth and hoping a ripened fruit falls straight into your mouth.