The former prime minister insisted that his successor Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was at fault, and lamented that Umno, MCA, Gerakan and MIC kept their dislike for the current PM private.
"None seems willing to acknowledge that it was dislike for Abdullah which caused the BN to lose the support of the people. Instead, they picked on the parties and blamed each other," he said.
Dr Mahathir wrote in his latest blog posting that the BN government has managed to keep Malaysia stable all this while, and its seeming inability to do so now was not because BN was no longer suitable but due to "very poor and incompetent leadership," an apparent reference to Abdullah.
In the aftermath of Sabah Progressive Party's exit from the ruling coalition, Dr Mahathir warned that "at the rate things are going the BN might split asunder."
He said that threats to leave BN made by Chinese parties are not just because of former Bukit Bendera Umno chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail's refusal to apologise for "unpalatable remarks about the Chinese."
According to Dr Mahathir, it is the impression that they are subservient to Umno that has caused them to take potshots at Umno and defy the BN leadership.
Dr Mahathir also said that there is a loss of confidence in the government’s ability to deal with the economy, leading to the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index to drop from a high of almost 1,500 points to below 1,000, and the ringgit to depreciate.
He asserted that these problems would not be solved by the opposition coalition taking over the government as "it is difficult to think that the hodge-podge collection of incompatible parties can handle oncoming economic and financial problems that are inevitable."
As such he advised against BN component parties joining Pakatan Rakyat but instead echoed the calls of many component party leaders to review the structure of BN with regards to inter-party relations.
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