The Budget Speech Is NOT the Budget (Part One)
By Steven Sim
December 2016 ODDLY ENOUGH
Don’t feel sad if you can’t always follow what goes on in Parliament. But if MPs are stumped by the lack of best practices during Budget Day, then we should worry.Parliament must appear very strange for the uninitiated. After all, the Westminster system that Malaysia models itself after is an old and quaint one. There are many weird practices involved, such as the thumping of tables, addressing MPs by their constituencies instead of their actual names and the party whip...
Steven Sim
is the MP for Bukit Mertajam and Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports.
