The people have not yet spoken!

Ah, as expected BN wins in the Ijok by-election. With all the government machinery behind them, I'll be pleasantly surprised if they don't. But I think the coalition was very worried about this particular by-election - even the big guns had to come to Ijok themselves to help bring about the victory.

Of course when you have the whole weight of the mass media behind you, lots of money to buy votes, police to keep the Opposition at bay, and the Electoral Commission who is incidentally paid by the government to manipulate the voting register, you can't possibly lose can you?

It's good to see the people of this little known community getting all the attention they deserve for once. And it's good to know that the government, for all its bureaucratic red-tape, can settle wrongs that lasted years in a matter of days when an election comes to town. Hence maybe it's good for a BN-elected representative (pointless for an Opposition-MP to do so since it's not BN's seat to lose!!) to resign or pass away in order to bring some good to their constituents.

Congrats to the people of Ijok! And make sure all those BN promises are kept or else...