What shocking and depressing news to read that Teresa Kok and Ronnie Liu are prompting the Selangor state government to reverse its policy on hillslope developments. I, for one, feel stabbed in the back. Utterly betrayed.

I may be wrong, but my humble guess is that the likes of Ronnie Liu and Teresa Kok were probably not voted in by housing developers. I have a gut feeling that these people would probably have voted to maintain status quo.

Business was booming and, it would appear to a layman like me, that the developers were pretty much getting their way with the local councils in nearly every development project. Why would developers have voted for such a drastic change in the status quo?

I’m guessing that was the ordinary people that voted in the likes of Ronnie Liu and Teresa Kok into office. Residents who were tired of objecting but not being heard, of feeling like we’ve been put at the bottom of the ladder, behind business deals and economic gains.

Sadly, it seems to have taken ‘the opposition’ – our hope for something better – less than six months to show their true colours and stab us in the back.

It is back to the same old argument. We have to justify that we are not against development, but we are just against developments that crack, and fall down, and threaten our safety, and sadly, even kill people.

I say shame on Ronnie Liu and Teresa Kok. The people voted you in for help and this is how you help us?

During a residents meeting in Ampang, as we residents were venting our frustrations at the approval of a project that posed a number of safety concerns to us residents, Ronnie Liu scolded us along the lines of how could we complain when ‘you voted them in’.

Well, much to our betrayal, it seems Malaysians have again ‘voted them in’. Only this time it is worse, because these people promised us change, transparency and that they would listen to us‘little people’.

You may be able to fool us once, but don’t think we’re that stupid to be fooled again.