I’m not sure whether Malaysians are the most compliant people in the world, as a recent global survey suggested, but some may well be in the running for the most credulous.

Or was it simply the power of wishful thinking that got many so excited about Najib Abdul Razak’s proposed parliamentary select committee for electoral reform?

Whichever, it’s high time people stopped kidding themselves and faced the incontrovertible fact everything Umno/BN says or does is, as I’ve so often asserted in this column, nothing but a total con.