COMMENT | The big Umno meeting held last Saturday revealed a lot that is negative and alarming about the party.

Its leaders showed that the party was not concerned with matters of the economy or the current suffering of the people who are trying to put food on the table.

Its leaders showed that they were more concerned with staying out of jail.

To the extent that they would control the attorney-general, bend the rule of law, so that the cases against them would be dropped and they would get away with their alleged crimes.

They upheld kleptomania, attacked the judiciary, borrowed from Donald Trump’s playbook to twist the truth about Najib Abdul Razak’s final appeal before the Federal Court and play to the emotions...