COMMENT | This article will not cast a single aspersion on the person of Tony Pua.

Whatever our own feelings, the Damansara MP is a Malaysian and a human being who deserves the same respect as everyone else.

To an extent, we must of course also respect the decision of anyone to go against the grain - this is not easy to do.

All I will attempt in this article is to go through the arguments he put forward with regard to whether or not Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s offer should be explored by the opposition or not.

The points are of course to some extent moot, as within some 15 hours or so of the PM’s offer, every single opposition party - including Pua’s DAP - has firmly rejected the offer.

I think Pua’s first problematic framing is...