COMMENT | Following Umno's at its conclave last weekend to go it alone in GE15 - a decision it inferred was also BN's - the attempt, post-conclave, by MCA and MIC to enter caveats is a futile exercise.

“Umno gets what Umno wants” was what some Umno bigwigs used to say about the party in its heyday whenever issues arose in which Umno seemed to be at odds with its BN partners.

In the event, the ensuing consultations among BN components usually wound up with Umno getting what it had wanted from the outset of the wrangle.

That was then, when Umno was hegemon. Things are different now.

After its ejection from federal power in GE14 in May 2018, Umno is no longer monarch of all that it surveys. But bad habits are hard to shed.

At its meeting last weekend, Umno was back to its domineering ways, at least a pretence of it...