COMMENT | No, I’m not trying to be funny with this opener. I’m making a serious comparison.

I think I can lump the state of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government today together with Boris Johnson’s bad haircut. Include that in the state of our Malaysian nation today.

For the flamboyant British prime minister, the messier and more erratic it looks, the more satisfied and happier he is with his hair.

To us, Malaysians, the PN government looks as messy and unkempt as Johnson’s head of hair, something which we would surely find culturally embarrassing and unacceptable.

But here we are, a once-proud nation of 32 million Malaysians, stuck in this untidily unfamiliar “neither here nor there” imbroglio with no clear leadership nor direction leading us towards salvation.

At least, Johnson has always been aware that the British people find his hairstyle out of sync and rather awkward. But that’s only the prime minister’s hair, not his style of governing the proud and mighty British Empire.

Compare Johnson with Muhyiddin Yassin. The Malaysian prime minister is unpopular, unwanted and his position is now untenable. It’s time for him to go but he won’t.

So, as long as Muhyiddin wants to cling on, we will continue to be saddled with this huge mess with more uncertainties and miseries coming our way.

I have not heard of an apology from Muhyiddin to ...