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Looking at the full cabinet list it looks like business as usual. Some cosmetic changes were included. Datuk Zaid Ibrahim is the de facto Law Minister in charge of judicial reforms. How far he will be allowed to go will be interesting. He’s said things which actually sound very much like what voters want.

Datuk Amirsham is another professional brought in, I speculate, to calm the markets.

However, I doubt that the top leaders have learnt their lesson or heard the message of the voters.

While Datuk Shahrir Samad is a principled politician, and there are few enough of those in government today, most of the other appointments seem designed to reward political parties rather than to fulfill the roles of actually lifting the country out of the malaise and to deal with voter discontent.

Some of the old guard were dropped. But oh dear, SENATOR Muhammad Muhammad Taib of illegal money smuggling to Australia fame? How many million was it? And to have him made a cabinet minister through the backdoor.

And no one’s made mention of April 15 yet; when Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be eligible to contest again.

You know, this really looks like a case of the Prime Minister being on a different planet than the reality on the ground.

Hmmm…